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Another downer for Jacobellis as snowboarder falters again

16.02.10

Recycling rapid Jacobellis committed the blunder of epic games in Turin 2006, the Act has remained famous for despite its many gold medals the X Games, World Championships and World Cups. Far ahead on the ground in Italy, she has tried Stylin 'on the penultimate jump, grabbing his board and twisting in mid-air. She lost her balance, crashed and settled for silver.

For all those who showed up expecting to witness a story of redemption or Tuesday, it did not happen. Jacobellis did not even make the finals, losing control of landing the first jump of his semifinal race, breaking a door and being disqualified.Then she tore a large group of U.S. media assembled until finally presenting a conference for new contingencies.

"It is certainly not the end of the world to me," she said. "I do both competitions a year. It is unfortunate that the world sees only the race and four years ago. So I guess I'm not a very good track record. "

Despite the error early implementation Jacobellis', residents have to go down the track sometime. So, long after the other three runners finished in Jacobellis finally slipped into the crowded gallery.She did what many have asked if she would be here - if it had been imagined as punctuation to a race for gold.

Source: Dallas Morning News (blog)

A champion in (fake) blue jeans

15.02.10

Here's guessing that United States snowboarder Seth Wescott is the first gold medalist ever to claim victory in blue jeans.

Sort of.

Though his pants look like denim, even up close, Wescott was merely wearing trousers made to look like jeans, with holes and all. Those bottoms are actually made from Gore-Tex, so they stay warm and dry. The entire men's and women's snowboarding team are wearing them.

The popular snowboarding apparel and equipment company Burton designed the uniforms. In addition to the "jeans," the team's jackets were made to look like flannel.

"The inspiration behind the U.S. Snowboarding Team outerwear for the 2010 Olympics is classic Americana," Greg Dacyshyn, Senior Vice President of Creative at Burton, said before the Games. "Although we are creating a uniform, our first objective is to express the individuality of snowboarding. As such, we are taking vintage American looks and interpreting them in a very unique and unexpected fashion."

Source: Seattle Times