COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Dec­. 17, 2016) – American snowboarders found more success at the final event of the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix weekend: the Team USA Winter Champions Series big air. Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) landed the win for the women and Ryan Stassel (Anchorage, AK) took third for the men.

Ryan Stassel found the podium in third place. (U.S. Snowboarding)

COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Dec­. 16, 2016) – Continuing her pattern of halfpipe dominance, Chloe Kim (Torrance, CA) took the win for the ladies and Chase Josey (Hailey, ID) was third for the men at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix at Copper Mountain on Friday.

It was a second-consecutive U.S. Grand Prix win for 16-year-old Kim, who made history at the Park City Grand Prix in February when she landed back-to-back 1080s (the first in competition for a woman) to take the win. The conditions at Copper Mountain on Friday were snowy and difficult, yet Kim was able to lay down a technical run that scored her a 95.50.

“I’m just stoked that I was able to put some runs down in these snowy conditions,” Kim said. “It’s so hard to ignore the snow and ignore the fact that your snowboard is going to go a lot slower than it usually would.” Kim held off a strong Chinese contingency—both Jiayu Liu and Xuetong Cai put down strong runs that placed them second and third respectively.

MONTAFON, Austria (Dec. 16, 2016) - It was a thrilling start to the 2017 FIS Snowboarding snowboardcross World Cup season, where Hagen Kearney (Telluride, CO) earned his first career win and Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) took third in a photo finish.

Kearney’s strength was in his start - he took the holeshot in every heat, including the final. For the first time in World Cup history, the men’s snowboardcross final had to be rerun due to a gate malfunction the first time around. “I knew nobody really wanted to go back up there and race again,” Kearney said after the race, “So I figured I had the edge on everybody - I wanted to do this again.”

The U.S. Snowboarding SBX team lift Hagen Kearney after he came through the finish.

COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Dec. 14, 2016) – The United States Olympic Committee is debuting its first-ever Team USA Winter Champions Series on Dec. 17, with USA Hockey, USA Luge and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association participating in a single-day television event telecast on NBC and NBCSN.



The three Olympic sport events – big air snowboarding, luge and women’s ice hockey – will be featured in a celebration of Team USA’s path to the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

The broadcast of the new Olympic event of big air snowboarding also serves as part of the opening weekend of the 21st season of the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix. Expected to compete are top American athletes Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA.), Julia Marino (Westport, CT), Hailey Langland (San Clemente, CA), Ryan Stassel (Anchorage, AK) and Chas Guldemond (Reno, NV). Copper Mountain – long-time U.S. Grand Prix partner – will host the big air event.

COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Jan. 13) – The world’s most elite snowboarders and skiers are at Copper Mountain this week for the first stop of the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix tour. Both snowboarders and freeskiers will compete in halfpipe and the snowboarders will also compete in big air.

With a ton of fresh snow falling at Copper Mountain over the last week, the 22-foot Main Vein Superpipe is open and ready for action from the top snowboarders in the world. The big air jump, built adjacent to the Main Vein halfpipe at Copper’s Centre Village, will serve as the first non-scaffolding big air venue featured on the World Cup circuit since Valmalenco, Italy in 2008.

BRECKENRIDGE, CO (Dec. 11, 2016) – Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) was first and Hailey Langland (San Clemente, CA) was second in an abbreviated competition at the Winter Dew Tour Saturday. Brandon Davis (Mammoth Lakes, CA) teamed up with Reid Smith (Breckenridge, CO) to take a third-place podium finish for Ride Snowboards in the Team Challenge.

In a new format for the Dew Tour, the women were scheduled to compete in a big air competition on Friday and a rail jam on Saturday; the scores from each event would then be combined to determine the overall winner. Due to heavy snow, the big air competition was moved to Sunday morning, where it was again cancelled due to weather. The women did compete in the rail jam on Saturday, which ended up determining the overall results.

BRECKENRIDGE, CO (Dec. 10, 2016) – Chas Guldemond (Reno, NV) earned a hard-fought fourth-place finish at the Winter Dew Tour on Saturday. Guldemond, who landed his first triple cork in competition in the big air section on Friday, finished seventh in the rail portion on Saturday, for a combined score that placed him just off the podium.

The podium was a Canadian sweep: Mark McMorris won the jump section and was fifth in the rail section to take the win, Max Parrot had a standout rail section to put him in second and Sebastien Toutant rode well in both sections to earn the third overall spot.

COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Dec. 8, 2016) – Maddie Mastro (Wrightwood, CA) hit the podium with a third-place finish at the U.S. Revolution Tour at Copper Mountain on Thursday. It was a highly-contested event, as it was the first halfpipe competition of the winter season and the first Olympic-standard halfpipe to open in the United States.

Topping the podium for the women’s event were Chinese athletes Liu Jiayu in first and Cai Xuetong in second. Also making the final for the U.S., Zoe Kalapos (Vail, CO) finished fifth.

The U.S. men had a strong showing, with Ryan Wachendorfer (Edwards, CO) leading the charge in fourth place. Wancheng Shi of China was first and the Swiss rounded out the podium with Pat Burgener in second and Jan Scherrer in third.

Also in the top 10 for the men: Chase Blackwell (Longmont, CO) was fifth, Toby Miller (Truckee, CA) was seventh and Benji Farrow (Ludlow, VT) was 10^th.

COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Dec. 6, 2016) – The 2017 U.S. Revolution Tour kicks off Dec. 7 at Colorado’s Copper Mountain. The premier contest tour for the next generation of freeskiers and snowboarders, the Rev Tour serves to bridge the gap between grassroots and elite-level competition. At the first of four stops on the tour, Copper Mountain will play host to both snowboard and freeski halfpipe competitions where future Olympic hopefuls will compete in Copper’s world-class, 22-foot Main Vein superpipe.

The Revolution Tour is an International Ski Federation (FIS)-sanctioned event. Skiers will also earn valuable Association of Freeskiing Professionals (AFP) points at this silver-level event, while snowboarders will earn points on the World Snowboard Tour (WST) at the national-level event.

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