Snowboarding May Have Reached Its Peak

Snowboarding is no longer new, no longer extreme, and—now that your mom knows how to ride—no longer quite as cool. No wonder snowboard sales and snowboarder...

Shaun White and 7 More Arrested Olympians

Milestones

DIED Camilla Williams, 92, the first black woman to perform a lead role with a major U.S. opera troupe; the soprano also sang at the 1963 Washington civil rights...

Is Snowboarding Getting Spoiled by Big Money?

A tribe of mavericks descended on Washington this week. No, they weren't Sarah Palin groupies, or Silicon Valley executives, or angry big-city mayors. They were...

Shaun White vs. Lindsey Vonn: Who's Better?

Call it the Tiger Woods–Roger Federer debate, Winter Olympics–style. On Wednesday, the two most heavily hyped Americans in the Vancouver Olympic Games, skier...

Snowboarding: It's Halfpiping Hot

The halfpipe competition, with its music and its crowd interaction, could become the beach volleyball of the Winter Olympics. It's a TV-friendly contest, and the...

Olympic Diary: How the Americans Struck Snowboarding Gold

Forget "Faster, Higher, Stronger" — we're talking "Younger, Hipper, Louder." The women's halfpipe finals, held in Park City under crystalline skies and...

Snowboard: Olympics: Dazed And Confused

If you want Vivaldi or Wagner or Lloyd Webber, go figure skating. Snowboarding's sound tracks are different. Last week at the Olympic snowboard park, as riders...

Nagano 1998: Snowboarding: Rebel Revels

Under dark, wet snowfall deep in Washington State's North Cascades, Terje Haakonsen charges his snowboard across the finish line to victory at the Mount Baker...

Nagano 1998: The Master Blasts The Board

Terje Haakonsen, 23, is the master blaster of half-pipe snowboarding. But is he an Olympian? Snowboarding, the cultural twin of skateboarding, is growing up fast...