Max Parrot of Cowansville, Quebec has won Canada’s first gold medal at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. On Sunday night in Canada (Monday afternoon in Beijing), Parrot won the Olympic men’s slopestyle snowboarding competition. Parrot in fact won one Read more
Snowboarding traditionally at the Olympic Winter Games traditionally tends to get a bad rap. There is a belief that it is a sport that is only for the younger generation. However, I, at 44 years old, is also fascinated my Read more
According to the Canadian Press on Saturday, Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan set the Winter X Games record for most gold medals ever in men’s slopestyle snowboarding with six. Shaun White had the previous record with Read more
According to Chloe Morrison of the Canadian Olympic Committee on Sunday, Eliot Grondin of Levis, Quebec won the bronze medal in a World Cup men’s snowboard cross event in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. For Grondin, it was his fifth World Cup medal, Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Sebastien Toutant of L’Assomption, Quebec won the gold medal in a men’s World Cup slopestyle snowboarding event at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary on Saturday. It was one of two medals for Canadian snowboarders as Canadian Read more
Eliot Grondin of St-Romauld, Quebec won his fourth career World Cup medal on Saturday in Cervinia, Italy. The 20-year-old placed second in a World Cup snowboard cross event. Jakob Dusek of Austria won the gold medal and Lucas Eguibar of Read more
Jasmine Baird of Mississauga, Ontario won her second World Cup medal of her career on Saturday. She finished in third place in a World Cup women’s big air snowboarding event in Chur, Switzerland. Baird posted a score of 148.75 points. Read more
Liam Brearley of Gravenhurst, Ontario won a silver medal for Canada in a men’s slopestyle snowboarding World Cup event in Silvaplana, Switzerland on Sunday. For Brearley, it was his second career World Cup medal as he previously won the bronze Read more
Two-time Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan won a World Cup bronze medal in slopestyle snowboarding in Aspen, Colorado on Saturday. For McMorris, who won the bronze medal in men’s slopestyle snowboarding at the 2014 Olympic Winter Read more
It was an outstanding Tuesday for Canadian athletes in the big air events in snowboarding and freestyle skiing at the World Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing Championships in Aspen, Colorado on Tuesday. Two-time Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Mark McMorris of Regina, Read more