Topic: Freestyle Skiing

100% Pure NZ Winter Games 2011 confirmed

SNOW SPORTS: With the 2010 FIS Snowboard and Freestyle Junior World Champs over today (31.08.2010), elite junior winter sports athletes from around...
The second New Zealand Winter Games has been confirmed for August 13-28 next year, following signoff from central and local government.. . The...

Gold Rush

Vancouver-Was there an image more iconically Canadian during the 2010 Winter Olympics than toque-wearing, red-beard-sporting skeleton gold...
The Vancouver Sun's Jeff Lee reports: The Vancouver Organizing Committee has cancelled about 20,000 general admission standing room tickets for all...

Accessible, cool, marketable - the coming Games slogan

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - If one moment from these Olympics defined the ideals of Faster, Higher, Stronger it was a shock-haired snowboarder channeling adrenaline and sheer joy to push himself and his sport to the extreme.Shaun White had already made sure of

Mountain springers are here to stay

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Though Mother Nature provided very little help, the Olympics freestyle skiing events established themselves as a real focal point at Cypress Mountain, providing some of the most exciting moments of the Vancouver Games.But these Olymp

Freestyle's X-factor eyes new frontier

Freestyle skiers, already at the vanguard of an Olympic revolution, have set their sights on breaking down more barriers, even if it chills purists from alpine skiing's European heartland.After the success of snowboard, and with a third freestyle event -

McIvor adds ski cross gold to world title

World champion Ashleigh McIvor won the inaugural Olympic women's ski cross title for Canada Tuesday, dominating the final after highly fancied Ophelie David of France earlier crashed out.McIvor led from the start of the four-woman final in driving snow, f

McIvor wins women's ski cross

World ski cross champion Ashleigh McIvor won gold for Canada Tuesday, dominating the final at Vancouver's Cypress mountain after highly fancied Ophelie David of France earlier crashed out.McIvor led from the start of the four-woman final in driving snow,

Canada's McIvor wins women's ski cross

World ski cross champion Ashleigh McIvor won gold for Canada Tuesday, dominating the final at Vancouver's Cypress mountain after highly fancied Ophelie David of France crashed out.McIvor led from the start in driving snow, finishing ahead of Norway's Hedd