The Ski Association of Japan said on Wednesday it has indefinitely banned two teenage snowboarders after they were found to have used marijuana on a tour to the United States in December. One of the teenagers admitted to smoking marijuana at a party in Colorado, ...
Taku Hiraoka failed in his bid to retain the title and finished third at the snowboard U.S. Open on Saturday as two-time Olympic champion Shaun White triumphed. Hiraoka, who left his best display to his third and final run to score 88.25 points, could not ...
Ryo Aono, who has already secured his third overall World Cup halfpipe title, won his second event of the season on Sunday. The 25-year-old scored 94.25 points for his 12th career win, a week after winning the championship for the first time in seven years. ...
Backcountry skiing and snowboarding have come under scrutiny after the recent rescue of two groups of skiers stranded in mountains in Nagano and Fukushima prefectures. Japan's powder-covered mountains are attracting skiers and snowboarders from overseas, but the risk of being stranded, injured, or killed by ...
Aging athletes, new skis and a lack of snow are ganging up on the once-edgy sport of snowboarding, which has seen a marked drop in participation over the last decade. Industry experts say it's a sign of the maturing of snowboarding, which grew at a ...
Skiers and snowboarders traveling to Utah this winter will find the same jagged mounting peaks looming just east of Salt Lake City and many familiar trails at the state's 15 resorts. But they may also notice a few signs of the significant changes that ...
Tomoka Takeuchi's pursuit of a second individual medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics ended in the second round of the women's snowboard parallel slalom on Saturday. The 30-year-old Takeuchi, who won silver in Wednesday's parallel giant slalom, was disqualified on her second run of the ...
Snowboarder Tomoka Takeuchi, who took the silver medal in the women's parallel giant slalom at the Sochi Winter Games on Wednesday, hopes to grab another medal in Saturday's parallel slalom, despite a patchy history in the event. The first Japanese female boarder to win an ...
Ayumu Hirano set the pace with a sterling first run in the men’s halfpipe on Tuesday to qualify for the final. The 15-year-old's run of 92.25 points held up as the best of the first heat and sent him into the final later Tuesday along ...
The slopestyle course that drew complaints from some riders ahead of the Sochi Olympics is set to be modified after Norwegian medal hope Torstein Horgmo broke his collarbone in practice Monday and is out of the Winter Games. The 26-year-old Horgmo landed heavily on his ...
