by The Editors on January 26, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News is reporting that skateboarding could make it’s Olympic debut in 2016:
Recent indications suggest 2016 is more likely for skateboarding to make its Olympic debut, but the crux of the issue remains the same: Should skateboarding be thrust into the spotlight the Olympics would offer?
When the subject first was broached, some believed the sport that had stayed underground for so long finally was getting its due props.
Many skateboarders, though, especially of the old-school variety, don’t see it that way despite support for the Olympics plan from legend Tony Hawk.
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
[Link: Rocky Mountain News]
by The Editors on January 26, 2008
According to a story in USA Today more people have been killed so far this year in avalanches than all of last season. So far over half have been snowmobilers.
“We had storm after storm after storm,” says Mark Moore, director of the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center in Seattle, an agency administered by the U.S. Forest Service. “People are out there and they don’t know where to go, because avalanches are all around them. So there were some bad decisions.”
According to Avalanche.org 23 people have died since December 18, 2007. Hopefully, this don’t become a record year.
[Link: USA Today]
by The Editors on January 26, 2008
by The Editors on January 26, 2008
From The New York Times:
“A lot of stuff that we’re doing now is opening the eyes of the general public, especially the youth, that skiing is not just a dorky sport anymore,” said Peter Olenick, who won bronze in superpipe at the 2007 Games. “We can do all the stuff snowboarders do, only better.”
Yeah, Peter, keep telling yourself that and we’ll keep laughing our asses off when we watch you heading into jumps butt-first, with your poles out.
[Link: The New York Times]
by The Editors on January 26, 2008
For a couple years now the action sports world has been glomming onto celebrities during the annual Sundance Film Festival because, well there is snow and dude, like, celebrities move proddy.
This entourage makes us actually feel bad for Adrian Grenier. He doesnot look happy about his Grenade ambush.
[Link: New York Mag]
by The Editors on January 26, 2008
The OC Weekly has pointed out that on Youtube you can find a whole slew of famous action people saying “Save Trestles.” Check them out for yourself, and add a couple if you want. Yeah, Save Trestles.
[Link: OC Weekly]
by The Editors on January 23, 2008
What do you know, it appears that SIA has jumped on the “green” wagon. Because it’s so marketable these days. For all the leafy details follow the jump.
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by The Editors on January 23, 2008
Yay! More X Games ads . . . and a bad photo of Gretchen. What more could you ask for on a Wednesday afternoon?
[Link: USA Today]
by The Editors on January 23, 2008
That’s what Steve Fisher compared himself to in a pre-X Games profile in the Aspen Times.
Steve Fisher really likes Shaun White. Said he respects “everything” the most the famous snowboarder in world does. . . . What the 25-year-old Breckenridge local doesn’t get is why the media wants to script him in the role of the Flying Tomato’s foil. Or, as Fisher puts it, the Phil Mickelson to snowboarding’s Tiger Woods.
Well Steve. . . it’s called “marketing.” And, hopefully, you’re learning more about that every year.
[Link: Aspen Times]
by The Editors on January 23, 2008
Go Skateboarding Day lives. And yes, it is still June 21. No fear. And because we’re telling you about it today, you’ll have time to plan.
Just ask IASC or follow the jump for the entire press release.
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The Rocky Mountain News is reporting that skateboarding could make it’s Olympic debut in 2016:
