Snowboarding

Chloe Kim And Her Dog, Reese, Partner With Purina Pro Plan To Challenge People To Get Active With Their Dogs (Forbes SportsMoney)

Chloe Kim, a pro snowboarder, and her dog, Reese, a Miniature Australian Shepherd, both have reputations for being highly active. From October through March in any given season, Kim is training and competing on snow to maintain her position as the best women’s halfpipe snowboarder in the world, defending her Olympic gold medal in halfpipe from the 2018 Pyeongchang Games at the Beijing Olympics this February.

Why Producing Live Snowboarding Events Is So Difficult—And What We Can Learn From The Beijing Olympics (Forbes SportsMoney) On a recent episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Ben Stiller described his experience catching some of the men’s snowboard slopestyle final from the 2022 Winter Olympics. As he admitted, he had no institutional knowledge of the sport going in, but by the end of the contest, he was invested in the outcome—namely, the judging. 

IOC Facing Questions Over Injuries To U.S. Snowboarder Julia Marino (Front Office Sports) The International Olympic Committee is facing questions whether it caused Team USA athlete Julie Marino to injure herself due to IOC-mandated changes to her Prada-sponsored snowboard.

Olympic Men’s Snowboard Big Air Final Sees Most Riders Ever Land 1800s As Sport Progresses Rapidly (Forbes SportsMoney) When the dust—or snow spray—had settled on the men’s snowboard big air final Tuesday, seven riders had landed an 1800, an upper-limits snowboarding trick involving five full rotations. 

Here’s How Much Olympic Snowboarding Star Chloe Kim Is Making From Endorsements (Forbes SportsMoney) Chloe Kim was one of the faces of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games, winning gold at just 17 by becoming the first female snowboarder in Olympic halfpipe history to land back-to-back 1080s—three full revolutions in the air. Then she broke her ankle at a 2019 competition and decided to take a break from the sport, enrolling at Princeton. As she grappled with depression and the burden of unfair expectations, her snowboarding hiatus stretched to nearly two years.