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After a disappointing World Cup result in Nendaz, SUI, where I placed 25th, and an even more disappointing World Cup result in Stoneham, where I fell in my first run, got up and continued riding, only to miss the last gate and get disqualified, I still qualified for the Canadian Olympic team! The team was [...]
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Pre-Olympic Racing in Mt. Bachelor
Nendaz Europa Cup 2010
Nendaz 2010
Following the great race in Austria, we drove a million hours – or, at least it felt like a million hours to drive our gutless rental car to Leysin, Switzerland where we trained for a couple of days. Leysin is quite close to Montreux, which made for a nice day trip for us on [...]
Change of Plans!
The tricky thing about snowboarding is that we are fully dependent upon the weather. This week we were supposed to go to Europe for two Europa Cup competitions and one World Cup. The snow situation in Limone, Italy, the site for the World Cup, was so poor (read: nonexistent) that the race was [...]
Ending the season on a high!
Whew! I think my season is finally over! After the last World Cup in March, we traveled to Tremblant, Quebec to battle the elements and each other for the North American and Canadian Champion titles. Several years ago, someone came up with the great idea to combine Canadian and US nationals to make one big [...]