Archive for the ‘Gretchen Bleiler’ Category
Inside shred: Gretchen Bleiler from GrindTV Blog
Recently, we had a chance to catch up with Gretchen Bleiler to get the scoop on her season and to hear about the all gigs she’s got going on.… More | Posted: March 3, 2011
Aspen Times article mischaracterized superpipe competition
Dear Editor:
In response to the article written by Jon Maletz on the front page of The Aspen Times on Sunday, Jan.… More | Posted: February 9, 2011
Bleiler Helps Develop Holga Cameras
One Saturday in the fall, while watching TV, Patrick DelliBovi noticed that snowboarding queen Gretchen Bleiler was using his company’s camera in an 35-minute travel film called “Uniquely.”… More | Posted: January 31, 2011
Plum TV’s Top of the Mountain featuring Gretchen Bleiler & ALEX Bottle
This episode hosted by Ramona Bruland and Olympic medalist Gretchen Bleiler is all about women’s specific snow sports.… More | Posted: January 31, 2011
New York Times: At X Games, Battle for Sponsors Is Also Fierce
In snowboarding, they call this the Olympic hangover year. And for Torah Bright, a gold medalist in snowboard halfpipe at the Vancouver Games and a Mormon who does not drink, it has been a time to nurse ailments.… More | Posted: January 29, 2011
No slowing rapid progression of Winter X tricks
Gretchen Bleiler remembers a time, not that long ago, when her discipline was a giant laughingstock, a painful undercard to snowboarding’s marquee event.… More | Posted: January 29, 2011
The charitable side of X
As the X Games has grown and matured, so have its athletes, and many of this week’s big names are seizing the opportunity to utilize their star power and the X Games stage to do something bigger than themselves and their sport.… More | Posted: January 29, 2011
USA Today: Gretchen Bleiler takes on issue of climate change
Heading into today’s Winter X Games, Olympic snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler is relaxed and confident.
Gretchen Bleiler of the USA smiles after the women’s finals of the US Snowboard Grand Prix on Dec.… More | Posted: January 27, 2011
Bleiler competing less, giving back more: Four-time X Games winner enters hometown event as defending women’s champ
Gretchen Bleiler’s season was supposed to be pillared around two events — the Winter X Games in Aspen this weekend and the European Winter X Games in March.… More | Posted: January 27, 2011