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History of Snowboarding In The Olympics

by clorenz1 | February 16, 2006 at 06:55 pm | 840 views | add comment

Snowboarding is as popualr as ever, and the Olympics is showing why so many love the sport...

Snowboarding made its Olympic debut in the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan with a total of four competitions divided into two categories: men's & women's halfpipe and men's & women's giant slalom.

Two types of competition were originally chosen to be part of the Olympic Games reflecting two very different styles of snowboarding. The halfpipe competition represents freestyle snowboarding, and the giant slalom represents alpine snowboarding.