Athletes+Winter+2010

By Brandon V.
 * Olympic Sports 2010-2011

One of the athletic and known sports is snowboarding. Snowboarding has been around for the past 50 years and had started in 1960 continuing to grow more popular .** Snowboarding is the world’s fastest growing winter sport and is set to become even more popular than skiing. It is a young sport and there are many people eager to learn more about the enjoyment this sport and what it has to offer. difficult sports to learn. Yet, one of the popular sports to compete in the Winter Olympics this year.**. While some snowboarders specialize in multiple things at a time, most high ranking performance competitors will only be chosen to do slopestyle, halfpipe, giant slalom or snowboard cross for the events. And who is expected to win medals this year?, Shaun White. He is a well established athlete and has won Various awards like in 2006 jump in slope style, Including all winter X Games in 2009, his awards medals are at the amount of 14 (9 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), most of the medals were from the snowboard technique slopestyle.. Successful as his life is there are to more people who will be expected to win medals to, Representing there country's skill. Raising up to the best will be hard but expectations will even be more more difficult. But Who will win? Is there another person that will surpass Shaun white? lets see when the Olympic sports begin in August in 2010!.
 * The sport combines elements from skiing, surfing and skateboarding. Snowboarding is one of the most respected and

5th grade.



References"

"Snowboarding History", From abc-of-snowboarding.com Link: [|//Snowboarding// History | Origin of //Snowboard//]

"About the Sport (Snowboarding)", From Vancouver2010.com Link: [|About the Sport]

"Snowboarding Training"From Vancouver2010.com Link: [|Training]

"Shuan White Information" From Vancouver2010.com Link:[|Medals]

"Awards Of Shawn White" From Wikipedia.com Link : [|//Shaun White// - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] Pictures: