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PGS racers: They're just like us
Alyssa Roenigk...more than 80 countries who will compete in 86 events in 15 sports at the 21st Winter Olympic Games. Better get started. PGS (Parallel Giant Slalom) Snowboarding A few facts to make you a smarter...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2009Olympic-bound! (Via Malibu)
Alyssa RoenigkOh, the things Olympians do for money. The Olympics are 100 days away, which means a few things for aspiring five-ring snowboarders. The mountains are...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 26, 2009For Johnson, mind is what matters
Alyssa Roenigk, For GIRL MagazineWhether she's competing in the Olympics or on "Dancing with the Stars," Shawn Johnson isn't surprised when she wins ... she's already pictured it a thousand times
Story | Conversation | October 19, 2009For Sale by Owner
Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN The MagazineThis column appears in the October 19 Body Issue of ESPN The Magazine. Weeks before this magazine hit mailboxes, the media wrote about the photograp...
Story | Conversation | October 07, 2009Uncorked!
Alyssa RoenigkBreaking down an Olympic-sized trick.
Story | Conversation | September 18, 2009Riders To Watch
Alyssa Roenigk...White pocketed at least two never-done-before tricks he will begin debuting during the Grand Prix Olympic qualifiers this fall. Not to be outdone by White, Nike built Pearce his own private halfpipe as...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 30, 2009Six Months To Showtime
Alyssa Roenigk...are up for grab. And only six months for you to study up. Snowboard Halfpipe made its Olympic debut at the Nagano games in 1998, alongside IGS (individual giant slalom), which was tossed in favor...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 30, 2009Progression Session
Alyssa Roenigk...place to progress," says halfpipe coach Ricky Bower. "It was a zoo down there before the last Olympics. This year will be even worse." The New Zealand session will be used to perfect tricks learned...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 29, 2009The circus is coming to town
Alyssa Roenigk...of year.) During the next seven months, many of the U.S. team's best hopes for Olympic medals will train at this 85,000-square-foot playhouse in preparation for Vancouver. During that time...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 09, 2009Silence is golden
Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN The MagazineCrowds love Ashley Fiolek. If only she could hear them roar.
Story | Conversation | June 03, 2009Action Sports Report
Alyssa Roenigk...viewers were undoubtedly left wondering what the heck they'd just seen. Gymkhana? Isn't that an Olympic equestrian event? Well, yes. But, no. This form of Gymkhana, which Block all but invented as a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 28, 2009Sea Change
Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN The MagazineWorld Title surf legend Kelly Slater toys with a radically different plan for making waves: He wants to blow the whole sport up and start from scratch
Story | Conversation | April 23, 2009Nothing breaks up these friends turned rivals
Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN RISE MagazineBalancing fierce competition with friendship can be tricky, but athletes across the country show it can be done
Story | Conversation | April 20, 2009The Action Sports Report
Alyssa Roenigk...the second-annual Snow Angels Invitational, a women's-only halfpipe contest created and hosted by 2002 Olympic silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler. The event was designed as a season-ending opportunity for the women to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 10, 2009Rare Air: Reggie Bush and Red Bull
Alyssa RoenigkIt's Thursday morning in Tampa, three days before Super Bowl XLIII, and Reggie Bush has just boarded a seaplane decked in Red Bull logos. Twenty minut...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 30, 2009EXPLORE RELATED TOPICS
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