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Jasey-Jay Anderson brings discipline to snowboarding
With better luck, Jasey-Jay Anderson could have been the household name coming out of the Nagano Olympics, not Ross Rebagliati. But rather than making excuses, the Quebec snowboarder embarked on a rigorous training program -- one that has made him a world champion going into the Salt Lake Olympics.
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A bumped, bruised and brilliant boarder
Natasza Zurek of North Vancouver is one of the world's best and most inventive halfpipe snowboarders, but she has an unfortunate habit of getting injured at the worst possible time. She hopes to put her latest injury and her jitters behind her for the Salt Lake Games.
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Brett Carpentier: For the love of shredding
Ross Rebagliati - A hazy shade of Winter Olympics
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No Olympic sport owes more to youth culture and shrewd marketing than snowboarding. The youngest Olympic event has evolved from a daredevil backcountry pastime into one of the fastest-growing sports in the world. |
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It's not just for punks anymore, even though there's plenty of the counter-cultural remaining in snowboarding. parallel giant slalom is snowboarding's version of a drag race and something of an endurance event, at least for successful racers. Halfpipe, the parallel gs's slightly bratty sibling, features a lot of the elements most people associate with snowboarding -- baggy pants, free-spirited competitors and gnarly tricks. |
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Crippler air (Inverted 180): An aerial halfpipe move in which the rider performs a 180 degree flip. The snowboarder approaches the halfpipe wall riding forward, rotates 90 degrees in the air, flips in the air, rotates another 90 degrees and lands riding forward.
Find out more about the language of Snowboarding.
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