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In July 2018, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially added the mixed team snowboard cross event to the Olympic program, increasing the total number of events to 11. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A total of 238 quota spots were distributed to the sport of snowboarding, a decline of 20 from the 2018 Winter Olympics. [ 4 ]
At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, only two big air events were held before the Olympics. Gasser was second in both, and was leading the ranking, followed by Reira Iwabuchi and Murase. Laurie Blouin was the 2021 world champion , with Sadowski-Synnott and Miyabi Onitsuka being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively.
The United States qualified their women's team (five athletes), by finishing in the top six teams in the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship. [18] Team Tabitha Peterson qualified as United States representatives by winning the 2021 United States Olympic Curling Trials , defeating Cory Christensen 2–0 in the best-of-three final.
Julia Marino scored a silver medal in snowboarding slopestyle for USA's first podium finish of the 2022 Olympics.
Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States became the Olympic champion. Jacobellis dominated the snowboard cross for almost two decades, winning the X Games ten times and the world championships six times, but her only Olympic medal so far was the silver in 2006 , when she started celebrating her win too early and was overtaken at the finish line ...
Julia Marino secured Team USA’s first Olympic medal this weekend in a viral high-fashion moment. The 24-year-old won a silver medal in the women’s slopestyle event on Saturday during the 2022 ...
At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, only three slopestyle events were held before the Olympics. Kokomo Murase was leading the ranking, followed by Melissa Peperkamp and Reira Iwabuchi . Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is the 2021 world champion , with Jamie Anderson and Tess Coady being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively.
Sophie Hediger, a member of Switzerland's snowboard cross team at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, has died following an avalanche at a mountain resort, the country's skiing federation said on ...