Boardercross: The original term for snowboard cross. Commonly used outside of the Olympics. Corner jump: A jump with a sharp turn on landing. Course design: A detailed plan of the layout of the course ...
The next big leap in snowboarding went ... Ayumu, the two-time Olympic silver medalist, pulled off what’s officially called a frontside triple cork 1440, a jump that involves three head-over ...
What a difference a century makes. Observing the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2022, Vermont’s sole Olympic-size ski jump endured a freak 60-degree thaw just days earlier that forced it ...
The International Olympic Committee has added seven events to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, creating a program of 109 gold medals. Sara Takanashi, who set the all-time ski jump win record with ...
Since the advent of the modern-day Olympics in 1896 ... shows the progression of gold medalists' distances for the long jump since 1896. Use the zoom controls at the top right to get a closer ...
Since the advent of the modern-day Olympics in 1896 ... shows the progression of gold medalists' heights for the high jump since 1896. Use the zoom controls at the top right to get a closer ...
Only one ski jumper has ever received a perfect set of style points in Olympic competition. Japan's Kazuyoshi Funaki got 20.0 from all 5 judges on his second jump in Nagano 1998. The longest ski ...
Three-time Olympic ski jump champion Thomas Morgenstern was taken to the hospital after a scary crash during training for the ski flying World Cup in Austria. According to Salzburg.com ...
That pretty much sums up the status of slopestyle. In July, the International Olympic Commission announced that slopestyle—a snowboard sport already a fixture in the U.S. at the Winter X Games ...