Recent Snowboarding News
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Stellar Riding Goes Down at the 12th Canadian Shakedown at Mont Saint-Sauveur
Despite the late-season chilly weather, there was plenty of energy from the massive crowd at Saint-Sauveur to rev the internal engines of the three-dozen athletes on hand for the 12th annual Ride Shakedown weekend. With a Shakedown course that included a Big Air jump and series of flashy rail features, and a jam-session format, along with a separate Rail Jam, there was plenty of opportunity for the talented crew to get creative.
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Six Medals For Oakley Snowboarders at Euro X Games; Toutant and Norendal Win Gold in Slopestyle
It wasn’t the season Sebastien Toutant had expected. One of the most talented young snowboarders of his generation – the generation of Mark McMorris and Stale Sandbech and Torstein Horgmo – he already had three Winter X Games medals to his name, including a Gold in Slopestyle in 2011. But coming into Euro X Games in Tignes, France, his 2012/13 season had mostly been filled with near misses – a caught rail here, an over-rotated spin there, a finish one spot clear of the podium. In Tignes, Toutant kept the mishaps and the near-misses at bay. In the Slopestyle Final, he took the early lead with his first run (88.0), which put him in good position to podium. With McMorris among the finalists, Toutant knew he’d have to fight to hold on to the top spot. On his second run he landed a clean triple cork, followed by a stomped Cab 1260, earning a score of 95.0. McMorris would come up just short in his third and final run (94.0) for Silver, and the Gold would belong to Toutant.
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HAPPY A LOT
Ståle Sandbech, 20 years old, from Norway. TTR Overall Champion 2012, Vice World Champion this year – and on a side note – youngest Norwegian to go to the Olympics in 82 years. Rather quiet (which explains the little information circulating about him), witty and happy a lot.
Gretchen Bleiler
Aspen, Colorado
Marie-France Roy
Les Eboulements, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada
Jamie Anderson
South Lake Tahoe, CA
Anne-Flore Marxer
Preverenges on Geneva's lake in Switzerland
Jenny Jones
Bristol, UK
Queralt Castellet
Spain
Shaun White
Carlsbad, California
Jake Blauvelt
Waterbury, Vermont
Eero Ettala
Helsinki, Finland
Stale Sandbech
Rykkin, Norway
Terje Haakonsen
Stovner, "Gnorwaii"
Danny Kass
New Jersey
Cambia Paese