A 20-year-old Connecticut man found unconscious in the middle of a Killington Resort run on Thursday, December 24, 2009, died, according to a story in the Times Argus.
According to an e-mail sent Sunday from Tom Horrocks, the resort’s communications manager, the man “died following a snowboard accident.” . . . “Killington Ski Patrol responded to reports of an unconscious person on Cascade Trail at approximately 12 p.m., brought him down the mountain, then transferred the man to Regional Ambulance Service,” according to the e-mail, with information Horrocks said he received from the resort’s risk manager.
All that the resort would say was that “the man did not fall from a chair and he was wearing a helmet.”
DCI Cheese Co., “the largest importer and marketer of specialty cheeses in the United States” is giving away 300 snowboards as part of their “Feed Your Inner Olympian” contest, according to a story on Progressive Grocer.
DCI Cheese Co. is rolling out a themed giveaway of 300 snowboards in support of Canadian-based Black Diamond Cheddar cheese. The enter-to-win “Win a Snowboard” contest, which will run from Jan. 1 through Feb. 28, 2010, will be available to shoppers at such participating grocers as Safeway, Whole Foods Market and Wakefern Food Corp.’s ShopRite stores.
Kind of surprised that the Totino’s frozen pizza boys don’t have some kind of collab going here. Seems like the perfect fit.
Yep, as Hannah Teter said last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: “gotta defend.” To answer a common Hannah Teter question: No, she’s pretty much always like that. We’re kind of bummed Tom Arnold didn’t try to kiss her. . . maybe next time.
Snow injury specialist Jasper Shealy, professor emeritus of industrial and systems engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology says skiers run into snowboarders more often than the other way around according to a post on a New York Times blog.
“Most people think that snowboarders whack into skiers,” Mr. Shealy says. “But it’s completely the other way around,” a phenomenon related to how each group falls. “Snowboarders stop abruptly,” Shealy says, their boards biting into the snow. “Skiers slide,” he says, often into a downed snowboarder.
Noah Salasnek had one of the smoothest skate styles in snowboarding. He never forced his way into anything, but always stood out. Thanks to some prodding from Chris Roach, Noah got in front of the Powder and Rails cameras to talk about the day.
We still smile whenever we think about his old Sims graphic–the one with the trucks and wheels on the base. We’re glad Noah’s story is finally getting out.
So the beacher report, a blog that apparently covers sports and hot girls, says that Summer Spiro is Shaun White’s girlfriend and one of the “sports WAGs to watch this year.” They say:
The blond beauty is the girlfriend of the multi-talented Shaun White, who will be shredding up the Olympics for a second time. . . Spiro is not just a pretty face. She’s a musician who has a band with her sister Ruby called—wait for it—Ruby Summer.
Obviously, we’ve been so distracted by Shaun’s double-doubles that we completely forgot about his love life. We apologize and hope it doesn’t happen again.
[Editors’ Note: We thought it was clearly obvious in the above post that we know nothing about Mr. White’s love life or who his girlfriend is. We were merely pointing out what the bleacher report was saying. Today we got an email from Shaun’s Red Bull handlers saying the story is “not true, can you please remove off your site. Shaun’s girlfriend is not Summer Spiro.” We reworked one sentence to clear things up.]
[Editors’ Note on previous Editors’ Note: Today we received a second email from Shaun White’s handlers at Red Bull. This time with the following message: “Thanks, it’s really not a big deal. The photo is actually not even of Summer, so bleacher reports just release a false story, no worries. Can you please remove the additional note you put, regarding my communication, please.” So for the record: bleacher report made up their post entirely. They probably should have used this photo instead then they only would have been half wrong.]
One the high points of Shaun Palmer’s wonderful horrible life was when he made the US Olympic snowboard team for the 2006 Torino Olympics. When a torn Achilles tendon pulled him out of the Olympics we were all pissed that the guy USA Today once called the “world’s greatest athlete” wouldn’t have a shot at an Olympic medal.
But, according to a Scott Willoughby story in the Denver Post, you can’t count the 41-year-oid Pizalm out just yet.
Palmer is back this season for another shot at the Olympics, saying that the injury doesn’t affect his snowboarding these days. And after qualifying second at the opening World Cup snowboardcross race of the season a month ago and 12th here in Telluride last weekend, it would seem that the speed is still there. . . He could become the oldest man to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Team with a repeat of his 2006 performance, but he has only three chances left to do it — the next one in Bad Gastein in January. After two of five Olympic qualifying races, he has finished no better than 17th.
We can think of nothing cooler than Shaun Palmer on an Olympic podium.
Greg Martin and the UK-based crew at Friday are proof that doing good work and sticking to the game makes great business sense. And it looks like there are a few others who understand, according to a post on BoardSportsSource.
Friday Management Group (FMG), has announced the signings of snowboard legend Terje Haakonsen (NOR), US star Jake Blauvelt and US up-and-comer Matt Ladley to its roster.
Anyone who really cared about this made-for-TV sporting event from Breckenridge probably watched it on NBC over the weekend.
We were super stoked for Danny Davis, Ipod, JJ Thomas, Kiersti Buass, Jamie Anderson, and especially 16-year-old Tyler Flanagan for ripping things up.
For history sake we’ve listed the results for the halfpipe and slopestyle results from December 19-20, 2009 after the jump, or you can check Nick Lipton’s approved, official, event-sponsor-cleared PR coverage by clicking here. [click to continue…]
Kurt Welden, 31, of Austria got in way over his head on the Moelltal Glacier in Carinthia, Austria last week and had to be rescued, according to a story in the Mirror.
A reckless snowboarder clings to the mountainside inches from certain death on the edge of a cliff. . . He had left the safety of the piste . . . in search of fresh powder. . . After stopping he managed to dig away enough snow so his board wouldn’t slip while he waited for help.
Guess the moral of the story is don’t ever ride with Kurt Welden.
