Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
Gretchen Bleiler Featured as one of 50 Sexiest Environmentalist on Rodale.com
This Olympic snowboarder doesn’t just spend time on snow-capped mountains; she crusades to save them. A key board member of Protect Our Winters, or POW, Bleiler engages the winter sports community and Congress to help combat climate change by advocating for regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.… More | Posted: April 19, 2012
SOS Outreach Concludes Season With Gretchen Bleiler
SOS Outreach, a youth development non-profit organization, is closing out the 2011-2012 ski season at Beaver Creek by hosting pro rider Gretchen Bleiler, who will spend the day this Saturday, March 31 riding with 142 SOS Outreach youth participants from Eagle County.… More | Posted: April 3, 2012
Haskins Wins Nautica South Beach Triathlon
It was a beautiful day for a race in Miami, and several Olympians and Olympic hopefuls looking for fierce competition at the international distance found it at the fifth annual Nautica South Beach Triathlon.… More | Posted: April 2, 2012
Separate jumps for female athletes?
Based on survey results, Kristi Leskinen advocating for separate Slopestyle jumps for women. Kristi Leskinen is proposing that female skiers compete on separate courses from men.… More | Posted: March 27, 2012
Steph Davis attends the PETA West Coast Headquarters Grand Opening
I am a supporter and longtime fan of PETA, the ASPCA, the American Humane Society and the ALDF, four groups who have worked tirelessly to defend and help animals-and as Ingrid Newkirk memorably commented at the opening party for PETA’s new west coast headquarters in LA “animals need all the friends they can get.”… More | Posted: March 22, 2012
How Snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler Stays Fit, Inspired to Do More
Olympian and four-time Winter X Games winner, Gretchen Bleiler is one of the most decorated halfpipe snowboarders in the world.… More | Posted: March 22, 2012
Lashinda Demus clears obstacles on and off the track
World champion in the women’s 400-meter hurdles has overcome an unexpected pregnancy that took her away from competition to rally back and become a favorite to make the U.S.… More | Posted: March 20, 2012
Lashinda Demus: ‘I love having boys’
Lashinda Demus will be blogging for espnW in the lead-up to this summer’s Olympics. Check back in April for more on her journey to London.… More | Posted: March 16, 2012
Muscle Milk Athletes Gretchen Bleiler and Matt Ladley hit the pipe at Buttermilk
Gretchen Bleiler and Matt Ladley get some post Winter X Aspen, pre Winter X Tignes training in at the Buttermilk halfpipe in Aspen, Colorado.… More | Posted: March 15, 2012