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It was a Canadian sweep atop the podium at the final halfpipe ski World Cup event of the season, with Cassie Sharpe winning the women’s competition and Noah Bowman winning the men’s event on Thursday. Sharpe, from Comox, B.C., finished with 90.40 points, ahead of France’s Marie Martinod (90.00) and Brita Sigourney of the United […]
Elizabeth Swaney competed in the ladies’ ski halfpipe on Monday despite being unable to land any real tricks. Swaney qualified for the Olympics through a loophole of sorts — athletes were required a number of top-30 finishes, so she would enter competitions with less than 30 athletes in the field, thus assuring the requirement would be […]
The 31-year-old American action sports icon reclaimed his halfpipe superiority with a score of 97.75 of a possible 100. After failing to medal at all in Sochi four years ago, White narrowly beat silver medalist Ayumu Hirano of Japan. Scotty James of Australia won bronze.
Chloe Kim, a 17-year-old snowboarder from Southern California, affirmed her place as the world’s most dominant female halfpipe artist by winning gold in that event in a runaway on Tuesday.
In the halfpipe’s biggest moment, snowboarder Shaun White flipped and twisted above the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, grabbing the gold and beating TV juggernaut “American Idol” in the ratings. Eight years later, that halfpipe is gone, and many more are vanishing.
Canada’s Cassie Sharpe dominated en route to ski halfpipe gold at the World Cup in Snowmass, Colo., on Friday. The 25-year-old registered top marks in each of her three runs, with her highest coming in at 93.20 in her final run. American Brita Sigourney won silver with a score of 89.20, while Japan’s Ayana Onozuka took bronze with […]
Canadian Cassie Sharpe won gold in the World Cup women’s freestyle skiing halfpipe event on Tuesday in Tignes, France. Sharpe scored 90.80 at the season finale, with Japan’s Ayana Onozuka and France’s Marie Martinod rounding out the podium. Canada’s Cassie Sharpe celebrates her gold medal in Tignes, France0:36 The 24-year-old native of Comox, B.C. now owns two World Cup golds after […]
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