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Try this ‘endorphin adrenaline cocktail’
MSNBC - Garrett Marsh, 12, Airboards down the slope near Snowmass Village, Colo., on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005, From tubing to Airboards to snow bikes, mountain resorts and guides are looking for excuses to get people outdoors. SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. - The

Celizic’s blog: last thoughts
MSNBC - It was way back in 1988 in Seoul when Team USA didn t really march, but swaggered into the opening ceremonies, as if being an unruly mob acting as if the Games were being put on just for them. The show would be repeated over the years, and it didn

Skaters, snowboarders, skeleton make for Olympic-size addiction
Rockford Register-Star - Good thing this stuff only comes around every four years because I tell ya, I ve been downright useless the past two weeks. Every night, I settle myself in front of the couch and don t leave for four straight hours. The laundry sits, undone. The

‘Everyone wears skate shoes’ 
EAGLE-VAIL - Once upon a time skateboarding was the baddest of the bad. “If you were a skateboarder, you were so cool, you were so punk rock,” said Patrick O’Toole, owner of Emage, a skate and snowboard shop in Edwards.

U.S. had success between failures 
If you recognized Lindsey Jacobellis before the Olympics, it was probably from the television commercial in which she couldn’t get her head into a race until her coach told her to imagine that she’d just lost her credit card.

TORINO SAYS CIAO! 
Torino’s Olympics, a topsy-turvy mix of marvels and misadventures, ended appropriately with a closing-ceremony Carnevale a circus-like celebration full of clowns and acrobats, vibrant and often dreamlike.

Torino’s Winners And Losers 
If you believe in the theory that everyone who participates in the Olympics is a winner in some respect, there’s a bridge I can sell you in New York City.

‘Magnificent’ Games sent off in style 
Torino bid farewell to the Winter Olympics in much the same way as it greeted them: with a spectacular celebration featuring at times bizarre images mixed with an overriding sense of fun.

Turin bids farewell to the Olympic circus 
With a dreamlike, Fellini-style circus of clowns and acrobats — one of them winged and floating on a snowboard, as if by magic — Turin found a fitting way to bid arrivederci to a Winter Games that mixed occasional fiasco with many moments of grace and glory.

Don’t sell them short: Olympians can still be winners in the ad game 
The planet’s only remaining superpower has finally gotten its comeuppance. The nations of the world have risen up as one and thrown off the yoke of American oppression, at least when it comes to snowboard cross.

Soaring out of the rut 
You’re boxed in. Again. Speed limit: 65. Speed: 0. Welcome to Interstate 70 with heavy skier traffic.

Fletcher Wins Bronze In Slalom Snowboard
KTVU.com, CA - Feb 23, 2006… Because of that, Tom Kelly, the longtime US ski and snowboard team communications director, now must live up to a promise he made to Fletcher back in 1999 …

US Gets First Medal in Snowboard Slalom
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Feb 23, 2006By BRETT MARTEL, AP Sports Writer. As they so often do in this Swiss-dominated era of parallel giant slalom, clanging cowbells announced the winner. …

Fast and furious, snowboard cross ready for Olympics debut
ESPN - Feb 14, 2006… Snowboard cross (the second word borrowed from cross-country skiing) is the latest extreme sport to join the Olympics party from the X-Games. …

Meuli wins Olympic women’s snowboard parallel giant slalom gold
Yahoo! News - Feb 23, 2006BARDONECCHIA, Italy (AFP) - Reigning world champion Daniela Meuli gave Switzerland a sweep of the Olympic snowboard parallel giant slalom gold medals Thursday …

Olympics-Snowboarding-Snowboard cross brings Nascar to the slope
Reuters.uk, UK - Feb 16, 2006By Alan Baldwin BARDONECCHIA, Italy, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Fast and furious, snowboard cross barged into the Olympics on Thursday with thrills, spills and a nod …

Wescott wins first ever snowboard cross gold
Independent Online, South Africa - Feb 16, 2006Bardonecchia, Italy - World champion Seth Wescott of the United States on Thursday captured the gold medal in the Olympic debut of the snowboard cross. …

Whistler Blackcomb’s Snowboard Sapient Showcase Showdown Kicks Off …
First Tracks, UT - Feb 22, 2006… Canada (Wednesday, February 22, 2006) - Registration for the Sapient-Showcase Showdown at British Columbia’s Whistler Blackcomb ski and snowboard resort is …

Turin celebrates Olympics’ end in festival of colour
Radio New Zealand, New Zealand - Feb 26, 2006… Juliane Bray described herself as “gutted” after her 20th placing in the women’s snowboard cross event at the Winter Olympics at Bardonecchia. …

Tara Teigen - Olympic Snowboard analyst
Maple Creek News, Canada - Feb 21, 2006… Internationally she was ranked as one of the most consistent snowboard riders, who delivered solid runs in every event she entered. …

US claims Olympics’ first snowboard-cross gold
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Feb 16, 2006BARDONECCHIA, Italy - American riders continued their mastery of the snowboard events Thursday as Seth Wescott of Carrabassett Valley, Maine, won the Olympic …

Snowboarding film slides into town 
If you’re all fired up about snowboarding after watching the Turin Olympics, here’s a chance to take a look at one of the hottest sports to hit the slopes of the Winter Olympiad.

DAVE BARRY: All aboard for collapsing in the snow 
This classic Dave Barry column was originally published on Feb. 12, 1995. WHEN YOU’RE 47 years old, you sometimes hear a small voice inside you that says: “Just because you’ve reached middle age, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take on new challenges and seek new adventures. You get only one ride on this crazy carousel we call life, and by golly you should make the most of it!”

SR INDUSTRY REPORT 
TORINO, Italy With a dreamlike, Fellini-style circus of clowns and acrobats one of them winged and floating on a snowboard, as if by magic Torino found a fitting way to bid arrivederci to a Winter Games that mixed occasional fiasco with many moments of grace and glory.

Fletcher claims snowboard PGS bronze
Pocono Record, PA - Feb 24, 2006BARDONECCHIA, Italy As they so often do in this Swiss-dominated era of parallel giant slalom, clanging cowbells announced the winner. …

Brothers square off in parallel snowboard
United Press International - Feb 22, 2006BARDONECCHIA, Italy, Feb. 22 (UPI) — Brothers Philipp and Simon Schoch were the survivors during a long day of Olympic snowboarding …

Rossignol/Quiksilver Hire VP of Hard Goods Snowboard Division
First Tracks, UT - Feb 20, 2006… This new snowboard hard goods division will be located at the firm’s Mountain Center presently under construction in Park City, Utah. …

Free Salomon Ski and Snowboard Demos This Weekend at Heavenly
First Tracks, UT - Feb 22, 2006S. Lake Tahoe, CA (Wednesday, February 22, 2006) - The Salomon Oasis ski and snowboard demo festival will make its twelfth tour stop of the season this …

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WOOD - (AP-Torino, Italy, February 21, 2006, 8:18 a.m.) Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto were still on the ice long after getting their silver medals. They posed for pictures, clowned for the crowd, waved the flag and tried to thank every single fan who showed

Gold medals bring golden endorsements
Summit Daily News - At the Olympic Games, some things will never change. Spandex will always rule. Skiers will always wear Spiderman tracks down their legs. Bobsleds will always be designed to look like the Batmobile. Figure skaters will continue to ignore the fact that

Rural Pen: Winter Brings More Than Just Fun And Games
Daily News-Record - Everything about last weekend was winter. After returning home from a dinner out Friday, I hauled the TV set out of the closet, plugged it in and adjusted the rabbit ears. As snow began to fall outside, inside we watched the opening ceremonies for

Jewell Eliminated from Medal Contention in Snowboard PGS
Transworld Snowboarding.com, CA - Feb 22, 2006US snowboarder Tyler Jewell (Sudbury, Mass.) was knocked out of the snowboard parallel giant slalom by Slovenian Dejan Kosir in Wednesday’s 1/8 finals in …

Sudbury s snowboard king and queen: Locals ready to race
Boston Herald, United States - Feb 22, 2006… And I can remember Myles sitting in English class or something talking about how his older brother was off at Junior Worlds in snowboard racing. …

New Study Touts the Benefit of Ski and Snowboard Helmets
Outside Online, CA - Feb 23, 2006February 23, 2006 A new study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that helmet use should be mandatory for skiers …

Flat Rosey hitches a ride to snowboard bronze medal
StarPhoenix, Canada - Feb 24, 2006… long, strange trip it’s been.”. Fletcher was part of the inaugural Olympic snowboard invasion in 1998. Since then, her sport has …

Ski/snowboard jaunt to be held Sunday
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Feb 21, 2006OCEAN TOWNSHIP: The township-sponsored ski/snowboard trip originally scheduled for Feb. 12 has been rescheduled for Sunday. The …

Girl, 14, dies in snowboard crash at Blacktail Ski Area
Daily Inter Lake, MT - Feb 21, 2006He said the girl apparently hit a tree. A novice snowboarder, she was wearing a helmet, he said. She was flown by Life Flight helicopter from St. …

Meuli golden in snowboard slalom; Fletcher gets bronze for US
WXXA, NY - Feb 23, 2006Meuli and Kober survived a long tournament process to face each other in the two-run final. Meuli led by 0.21 seconds after the …

US Gets First Medal in Snowboard Slalom
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Feb 23, 2006By BRETT MARTEL, AP Sports Writer. As they so often do in this Swiss-dominated era of parallel giant slalom, clanging cowbells announced the winner. …

Canadians advance in snowboard cross
CBC News, Canada - Feb 17, 2006In the Olympic debut of women’s snowboard cross, Canadians Maelle Ricker and Dominique Maltais advanced to the quarter-finals of the Torino Games. …

King Snowboard ruling the mountains
MaineToday.com, ME - Feb 24, 2006If we ve learned nothing from the instant celebrity that s fallen on Farmington s Seth Wescott like a windblown maple, it s that snowboarding can take …

Alpine ski and snowboard racers finish strong at Tahoe
Amador Ledger-Dispatch, CA - Feb 24, 2006A giant slalom race on Feb. 13 at Sierra Tahoe concluded the qualifying season for the Amador and Argonaut ski and snowboard teams. …

Jewell May Add Another Chapter with Snowboard Slalom
Los Angeles Times, CA - Feb 21, 2006… Ten days ago, Shaun White, aka the Flying Tomato, started things off for the snowboard team — and for the US in general–by striking gold in the halfpipe. …

Meuli Get Gold In Snowboard Slalom
KUTV, UT - Feb 23, 2006(Sports Network) BARDONECCHIA, Italy Daniela Meuli of Switzerland beat out Germany’s Amelie Kober for the gold medal in the women’s parallel giant slalom …

XX OLYMPIC WINTER GANES: TORINO 2006: Snowboard: the Swiss …
noticias.info, Spain - Feb 22, 2006… Simon and Philipp, respectively first and second in the speciality rankings in the World Cup, are the two giants of snowboard able to make an Olympic Winter …

Once upon a time, ‘Flying Tomato’ flew through surf
North County Times, CA - 7 hours ago… For a few years, whenever dad asked him to go surfing, Shaun declined; at about the same time, Shaun jumped on a snowboard for the first time. …

Sudbury s snowboard king and queen: Locals ready to race
Boston Herald, United States - Feb 22, 2006… And I can remember Myles sitting in English class or something talking about how his older brother was off at Junior Worlds in snowboard racing. …

Wescott wins first ever snowboard cross gold
Independent Online, South Africa - Feb 16, 2006Bardonecchia, Italy - World champion Seth Wescott of the United States on Thursday captured the gold medal in the Olympic debut of the snowboard cross. …

Jewell Leaves Snowboard Event Smiling
Yahoo! News - Feb 23, 2006… And he would be proud to represent the United States in the Turin Games. After all, he was doing what he loved: snowboard racing. …

Police cite teen for snowboard theft
Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 23 hours agoRobert Abair admitted to police that he stole a snowboard from the Bolton Valley Ski Resort last Thursday after discovering his own had been taken by someone …

Snowboard With Olympic Silver Medalists Danny Kass and Gretchen …
Transworld Snowboarding.com, CA - Feb 20, 2006Mt. Hood, Oregon The 2006 Olympic Snowboard events may be over, but Olympic Half-Pipe Silver Medalists Danny Kass and Gretchen Bleiler won t be relaxing …

Whistler Blackcomb’s Snowboard Sapient Showcase Showdown Kicks Off …
First Tracks, UT - Feb 22, 2006… Canada (Wednesday, February 22, 2006) - Registration for the Sapient-Showcase Showdown at British Columbia’s Whistler Blackcomb ski and snowboard resort is …

Canadians impress in snowboard cross
CBC News, Canada - Feb 16, 2006Drew Neilson, seen on the left in this file photo, finished first in Olympic snowboard cross qualifying on Thursday. (CP File Photo). …

Sunday’s medalists
Pueblo Chieftain, CO - Feb 26, 2006… Seth Wescott, Farmington, Maine, snowboard cross. Shaun White, Carlsbad, Calif., snowboard halfpipe. … Hannah Teter, Belmont, Vt., snowboard halfpipe. …

Meuli bags third Swiss snowboard gold
Thanh Nien Daily, Vietnam - Feb 23, 2006… Turin Games and followed Philipp Schoch’s victory in the men’s parallel giant slalom on Wednesday and Tanja Frieden’s win in the women’s snowboard cross last …