Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
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
Brita Sigourney takes 3rd at Sprint Grand Prix in Copper
FIS World Cup halfpipe competitors in the 2013 Visa U.S. Grand Prix Freeskiing finals at Copper Mountain got a classic Colorado welcome on Friday, waking up to a whiteout and several inches of new snow, but then finding bluebird conditions once the event was underway.… More | Posted: January 11, 2013
Bleiler Undaunted By ‘Orbital Blowout’
In two weeks, snowboard star Gretchen Bleiler will open her season at the X Games in her hometown of Aspen – just six months after shattering her eye socket in a trampoline accident.… More | Posted: January 10, 2013
Actor, columnist, cook: Meet Yoga’s glamour girl Kathryn Budig
She spent many years acting in theatre until she realised she was meant to be a yoga teacher.… More | Posted: January 8, 2013
Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix to Open at Copper
COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Jan. 2) – New to the Olympic sports roster, halfpipe and slopestyle freeskiing, will hit Copper Mountain Jan.… More | Posted: January 4, 2013