Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
Gretchen Bleiler on Good Morning America: Winter X-Games Begin, Snow Board Champ Returns to Slopes
Four-time, X-Game gold medalist Gretchen Bleiler makes improbable comeback.
To watch Gretchen on GMA, please click here.… More | Posted: January 28, 2013
Carmel’s Brita Sigourney has been wearing skis since toddlerhood. Now she’s ready for her biggest event yet – the Winter 2013 X games.
Ask any skater grinding the curbs in your neighborhood parking lot, or any brand manager for an international sports apparel line, and they’ll tell you the same story: The X Games rule.… More | Posted: January 25, 2013
Aspen snowboarding star Gretchen Bleiler is back as sight to see at X Games
Gretchen Bleiler’s push for her third Olympics was nearly derailed last summer during training. Practicing a double flip on a trampoline in Park City, Utah, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist took a knee to her face, breaking her nose and shattering her eye socket.… More | Posted: January 24, 2013
Yoga Journal Conference New York Featuring Kathryn Budig
Kathryn Budig‘s playful mixture of challenging classes with her lovable personality is the recipe for a truly inspiring class.… More | Posted: January 23, 2013
Eye injury? What eye injury? Bleiler wants to get back at it
Despite traumatic accident, snowboard star won’t give up on her sport
If Gretchen Bleiler wasn’t fighting back from the eye injury she suffered during the summer, it would be uncharacteristic for the pro snowboarder who has made her mark on the industry by breaking the rules.… More | Posted: January 22, 2013
Sustainable Snowboarders
Gretchen Bleiler
Olympic Silver Medalist and Four-time X Games Gold Medalist
Champion snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler travels around the world, “chasing the snow,” she says.… More | Posted: January 21, 2013
MY PERFECT ADVENTURE: BRITA SIGOURNEY
One of the world’s top female freeskiers tells us about her urge to visit Indonesia, the time she saw blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos Islands, and why she sometimes imagines life as a professional surfer
When it comes to picking an ideal landscape, some of us are beach people and some of us are mountain people.… More | Posted: January 17, 2013
My Perfect Adventure: Maddy Schaffrick
The youngest snowboarder at two Winter X Games tells us about her fantasy to surf with Taylor Lautner, why she wants to visit an Amish town, and what always brings her back to snowboarding, even after an injury
She’s young, but Maddy Schaffrick is no rookie.… More | Posted: January 16, 2013
Back in halfpipe, snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler tries to regain form after serious eye injury
In an ambulance with her face badly bleeding after a trick went horribly wrong in training, Gretchen Bleiler blurted this out: Snowboarding wasn’t worth it.… More | Posted: January 15, 2013