This is the second season of the Source presents Oil Country, A web series about snowboarding in Alberta Canada. Episode one features, Dwayne wiebe, Tanner Davidson, Alex Moris, Steve-o Callen, Guillaume Fortin, Zack Chamberlin, Jon Chew.
Mac Bohonnon was in the eighth grade when he left home to pursue his Olympic dream, one that became a reality Monday when, as the lone American, he competed in the men’s aerials at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The little-known Olympian who competes in a little-publicized event didn’t win a medal, but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the 18-year-old on a day declared to be Mac Bohonnon Day in his hometown of Madison, Connecticut … More
Ståle and Torstein cruising the park on a sunny day.
Halfpipe snowboarding has been the cool kid of U.S. Olympic sports since it was inaugurated in 1998. It was novel compared to events like alpine skiing, and we had perpetual winner Shaun White to root for. But this year, now that freeskiing is on the big stage, skiers, with their bigger amplitude, more-complicated grabs, and tougher-looking switch tricks, might steal the show from snowboarders.
It’s hard to resist weighing skiing against snowboarding, given that both breeds of athletes compete in the same venue, but a direct comparison is kind of unfair. Even on the same halfpipe, the way riders approach the course, because of … More