Joss Christensen made history in 2014 when he won the first-ever gold medal for men’s Olympic slopestyle skiing. What makes the win even sweeter is that Christensen was an underdog going into Sochi. (Getty Images /AFP/Loic Venance)
Read about Christensen's injury and his plan for coming back before PyeongChang in NBC Olympic's article: Joss Christensen Must Battle Back From Major Injury to Defend Olympic Title.
Every year, Snowboarder Magazine hosts Superpark, a huge gathering of snowboarders--and a few freeskiers--at Mammoth Mountain.
We are officially ONE YEAR away from the start of the PyeongChang Olympics. Watch Joss Christensen and Maddie Bowman interviewed live on the Today Show in honor of the 365 days until they get to defend their gold medals from Sochi.
Joss Christensen and David Wise talk with Team USA about defending their gold medals in the upcoming Olympics.
Two U.S. Freeskiing athletes have pulled out of today’s Polartec Big Air at Fenway to rest pre-existing minor injuries.
Olympic champion Joss Christensen (Park City, UT) topped the competitive slopestyle field at the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain on Sunday.
U.S. Freeskiing member Annalisa Drew led the field in superpipe qualifying at Dew Tour Breckenridge.
Olympic Champions Wise, Bowman and Christensen lead 39 athletes named to 2016 U.S. Freeskiing Team
Joss Christensen (Park City, UT) grabbed a podium at the slopestyle, nailing a bronze.
Five Americans made the cut in the Winter Games NZ slopestyle—Devin Logan (West Dover, VT), Keri Herman (Breckenridge, CO), Noah Wallace (Spokane, WA), Joss Christensen (Park City, UT) and Bobby Brown (Breckenridge, CO).
Six USSA athletes will be represented at the 2015 Governor’s State of Sport Awards.
The FIS Slopestyle World Cup tour wrapped up in Silvaplana, Switzerland with Olympic Champion Joss Christensen taking second in the slopestyle tour standings.
The FIS World Cup Tour wraps up this week with halfpipe finals taking place in Tignes, France on Thursday, with slopestyle qualis and finals taking place in Silvaplana, Switzerland on Friday and Saturday. Gus Kenworthy sits in striking distance for both.
Four U.S. Freeskiing athletes landed on the podium in the slopestyle skiing competition at the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix in Park City, UT.
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Joss Christensen made history on February 13, 2014 when he won the first-ever gold medal for men’s Olympic slopestyle skiing. What makes the win even sweeter is that Christensen was an underdog going into the Olympics, having been nominated to the team by coaches’ discretion. Christensen had a rough start to the 2014 Olympic qualifying season and wasn’t landing the podiums needed to earn his Olympic spot through objective criteria. When it came to the last qualifying event in Park City, his hometown, he knew he had to step it up. After throwing down one of the smoothest runs the judges had ever seen, Christensen won the final qualifying event. Later that week, the coaches awarded him the coveted discretionary spot on the inaugural U.S. Olympic Slopestyle Team. At the Olympics, under sunny Sochi skies and spring-like conditions, Christensen had the best day of skiing of his life. He threw down two unbeatable runs in qualifiers and then went on to dominate finals with another two unbeatable runs. His last run, a victory lap, included a switch triple 1260 japan, a trick he had only learned earlier in the week during practice. Christensen led fellow Americans Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper in a podium sweep, marking only the third time in Olympic Winter Games history that the U.S. swept a medal event. Christensen has had marked success outside of the Olympics, including earning an X Games silver medal at Aspen in 2015 and winning the U.S. Grand Prix three times (2014, 2015 and 2016). A Park City local, Christensen picked up slopestyle and halfpipe skiing by living next door to some of the best park features in the world. With his well-rounded bag of tricks and clean style, watch for Christensen to continue to make a name for himself amongst the best freeskiers in the world. FIRST TRACKS OFF THE SNOW |
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