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Shaun White’s comfortable, witty appearance actually makes it worth watching Stephen Colbert for more than three minutes. No joke, Shaun is that good. To watch the entire Colbert Report episode, click the link.
[Link: Hulu.com]
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Last night, on an otherwise terrible night of NBC Olympic coverage, the network aired an amazingly heart-felt feature on Kevin Pearce, his accident, his family, and his near miraculous recovery process. The piece shows how important family is in the rehabilitation of tramatic brain injury patients and how well Kevin is responding.
If you watch nothing else today, watch this clip.
[Link: NBCOlympics]
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Tonight at 9:10 PM PT/ET on NBC television, Kevin Pearce’s parents, Pia and Simon, will sit with Tom Brokaw to discuss Kevin’s current rehabilitation and recovery in Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado. Tune in for the latest update.
[Link: Well Wishes For Our Frend Kevin Pearce]
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For snowboard collectors there may be nothing more valuable than one of the original Wicklund “bunker” boards. The board, patented in 1939, featured leather straps and a nose cord. Don Burgeson, 67, the son of one of the board’s creator’s tells the the Daily Herald that he’s had one of them around for years.
Gunnar worked with his uncle’s Albin Carlson & Co. construction company, raised his family in Oak Park [Illinois{ and stuck his snowboard invention in the closet. “We just had it and used it,” remembers Don Burgeson, who turns 67 on Wednesday and is retired from the family construction business he sold in 2004. “We just thought, ‘Here’s this thing we had.'”
The authenticity of this footage has been discussed and argued in snowboarding circles since if first surfaced in the Burton Booth at the 2000 SIA Show. And yes, it still looks too modern to be shot in the 30s. . .
[Link: Daily Herald]
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Car-Freshner Corp., the company that makes the little trees that hang from people’s review mirrors and soak up that dank weedy smell, has filed a trademark infringement suit against Burton Snowboards according to a story in the Watertown Daily Times.
Car-Freshner claims that the company offers a line of five “Fix” snowboards using the allegedly unauthorized tree design and that it has sold the boards through its Web site and at Sports Authority, Zumiez and Ski Co. stores in the Syracuse area. . . The Watertown company is asking a judge to, among other things, order Burton to recall and stop selling the disputed boards. It also is asking for an unspecified amount of damages.
Hard to believe anyone would mistake a snowboard for an air-freshner. . . but anything is possible.
[Link: Watertown Daily Times]
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After these photos of a girl kissing and biting Scotty Lago’s Olympic bronze medal surfaced on TMZ.com today, Scotty reportedly apologized to the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association and “volunteered” to go home.
In a strange twist it seems TMZ actually feels badly about this one, according to the site.
TMZ published the photo and apparently it didn’t sit well with someone. He’s a snowboarder for cryin’ out loud. They should have cut him a break.
As we tweeted earlier in the week, we’re glad Scotty was there, stoked he won the bronze, and we’re bummed he’s not still in town interacting with those “hot Russians.”
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It’s not the official US Snowboarding Olympic Team uniform, but these Analog pants are as close as anyone can get apparently. Burton says they will not be selling the uniforms no matter how many people beg for them. (Hard to believe we know.)
New photo-real sublimated products in Analog’s Outerwear Winter 2011 collection include the Gravel Pant – a faux look of worn in denim jeans. . . The Gravel Pant, which is very similar to what two of the top 3 snowboarders, wore—when they placed at the most recent half-pipe snowboard contest in Canada (available in October 2011, $250 retail). and the Andros Parka – a faux vintage military parka style jacket with oil, paint stains and patchwork also available October 2011, $300.
You won’t get mistaken for Shaun White or Scotty Lago in these, but they will allow you to look like a grizzled, dirty lift maintenance worker minus that oily, diesel smell.
[Link: Analog]
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It was a final littered with falls. The star of the qualifiers, Spain’s Queralt Castellet, didn’t even make it to the finals. She went down during practice and was pulled out of the pipe on a sled.
When the finals began it seemed like the sitting and slamming only intensified. Hannah Teter was the lone favorite to survive in the first run and her safe, conservative run seemed to surprise the judges into giving her a 42.4. Nerves?
In the second run Torah Bright turned it on, landed her run (watch the video here), and no one could catch her. Gretchen Bleiler went down on her second run as did the lone Canadian Mercedes Nicholl. Kelly Clark threw down a big run with a slight sketch or two and was given a 42.2 by the judges. It was only good enough for bronze.
We’re sure when we’re all given time to review the video some of the scoring will appear even stranger, but the one thing that cannot be taken away was Torah Bright’s performance under pressure. Her run was exactly what was required and she stomped it.
Women’s Olympic HP Results:
1. Torah Bright 45
2. Hannah Teter 42.4
3. Kelly Clark 42.2
4. Jaiyu Liu 39.3
5. Sophie Rodriguez 34.4
6. Mercedes Nicoll 34.3
7. Zhifeng Sun 33
8. Holly Crawford 30.3
9. Ursina Haller 27.9
10. Elena Hight 24.6
11. Gretchen Bleiler 14.7
12. Queralt Castellet DNS
For the complete results, click here. Click here for video.
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When the qualifiers for the Women’s Olympic Halfpipe event begin today at 12:30 PM PT in the pipe at Cypress Mountain 30 women from 14 different countries will be competing for one of three spots on the podium. First to drop in will be Australia’s Torah Bright.
The biggest battle will go down between Bright, Spain’s Queralt Castellet, and Americans Kelly Clark, Hannah Teter, Gretchen Bleiler, and Elana Hight.
Directly to finals from qualifiers:
1. Torah Bright 45.8 Australia
2. Kelly Clark 45.4 US
3. Queralt Castellet 44.3 Spain
4. Hannah Teter 42.7 US
5. Gretchen Bleiler 40.2 US
6. Zhifeng Sun 39.9 China
Semi-finals begin at 4 PM PT and the finals (including the top six women from the semis) begins at 6 PM PT.
Follow the live scoring right here. We’ll link of a live feed if we can find one. Lost that one.
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In a post on AngrySnowboarder.com (pointed out to us by SouthoftheNorth’s Jonny Burns) the Angry One discovered that all the snowboarders who are currently appearing in the 2010 Olympics have had their names and likenesses removed from the team pages of their sponsor’s websites.
Turns out this is the result of a small by-law of the IOC’s rule 41 (mentioned yesterday in a story on ESPN). It reads:
Except as permitted by the IOC Executive Board, no competitor, coach, trainer or official who participates in the Olympic Games may allow his person, name, picture or sports performances to be used for advertising purposes during the Olympic Games.
Guess that explains the Scott Lago hole in the Flow website (above right) as well as Louie Vito missing on Omatic, Shaun White, Kelly Clark, Hannah Teter et. al. missing from the on the Burton site, etc. etc. etc. . . Now, if you’re an official Olympic sponsor, then it’s a completely different game. Another not-so-subtle reminder that the Olympics really are all about the money.
[Links: AngrySnowboarder via SouthofTheNorth and ESPN]
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