Shaun White Does NOT Medal in Halfpipe | Swiss I-Pod Takes Gold Shaun White did not get an Olympic medal this year in halfpipe. The last time someone other than Shaun won gold in halfpipe was in 2002. A huge congrats has to go out to Switzerland’s I-Pod (Iouri Podladtchikov) for winning gold and an even bigger congrats to Japan for taking the Silver and Bronze medals. 15-year-old Ayumu Hirano took Silver and 18-year-old Taku Hiraoka grabbed the bronze. There were no American’s on the podium for the first time since 1998 when halfpipe made it’s Olympic debut. […] SnowBrains | February 11, 2014 2 Comments
US Snowboarders Slam Sochi Halfpipe as “Garbage,” Demand Change “It’s the Olympics. It should be flawless. What a lame showcase of snowboarding, and what a lame way to treat the athletes.” – Danny Davis, USA Snowboard Halfpipe athlete “The IOC probably didn’t want to pay the right guys to do it. I’m pretty sure what they’re focused on is keeping as […] SnowBrains | February 11, 2014 1 Comment
South Lake Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson Wins GOLD in Snowboard Slopestyle 23-year-old South Lake Tahoe, CA native Jamie Anderson won gold in women’s snowboard slopestyle over the weekend. She smoothly landed two huge 720s in her run, setting her apart from the other competitors. Jamie completed an American sweep of snowboard slopestyle after Sage Kotsenburg won the men’s gold medal. This was the first ever Olympics to include snowboard slopestyle. […] SnowBrains | February 10, 2014 0 Comments
Squaw Valley’s Travis Ganong Gets 5th Place in Men’s Downhill Our friend and Squaw Valley native Travis Ganong has gotten 5th place in the Olympic Men’s Downhill competition in Sochi. Travis was the highest placing American man. Bode Miller placed a strong 8th as well. This was Travis’ highest placement in international competition after his 7th and 8th place World Cup finishes this year. […] SnowBrains | February 10, 2014 2 Comments
Can The Russians Pull Off A Successful Olympics? Women Downhill Training Delayed Due To Poor Design As the Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics approaches, the question is starting to rise: Can the Russians pull off a successful Olympics? Particularly, will their course designs […] SnowBrains | February 7, 2014 0 Comments
Shaun White Bails Out of Olympic Slopestyle Competition “After much deliberation with my team, I have made the decision to focus solely on trying to bring home the third straight gold medal in halfpipe for Team USA. The difficult decision to forego slopestyle is not one I take lightly as I know how much effort everyone has put into holding the slopestyle event for the first time in Olympic history, a history I had planned on being a part of. However, with the practice runs I have taken, even after course modifications and watching fellow athletes get […] SnowBrains | February 6, 2014 1 Comment
US Olympic Ski Team Announced | Congrats to Squaw Valley’s Travis Ganong! Congratulations to all the skiers announced to the US Olympic Ski Team for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia. We want to send a special shout out to our friend and fellow Squaw ripper Travis Ganong. Travis made the US Ski Team’s World Cup Team this year for the first time as well as the […] Miles Clark | January 27, 2014 0 Comments
USA Olympic Uniforms Are Ugly: There’s no two ways about it. The USA Olympic Uniforms for Sochi are ugly. These are the outfits that our athletes will be wearing at the opening ceremonies next month in Sochi, Russia. These new uniforms were just unveiled last week on the Today Show with Matt Lauer. The uniforms were designed by Ralph Lauren and made in America (Ralph Lauren’s 2012 London Olympic uniforms were made in China). In our opinion: yeah, they aren’t great, but we’d sure as hell love to be one of the people fortunate enough to wear one. Go team USA! […] SnowBrains | January 27, 2014 3 Comments
