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Team Canada - Official 2018 Olympic Team Website

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Biography:

Brooke Voigt was just 16 years old when she not only competed at her first World Cup slopestyle event, but won a silver medal in Calgary in January 2010. She also reached the podium in her next two World Cup events, winning silver again in Calgary in February 2011 and in Stoneham, Quebec in February 2012. It was also in 2012 that she finished in the top-10 at the FIS World Junior Championships in slopestyle. She made her FIS World Championship debut a year later. In her third worlds appearance in 2017, she placed an impressive seventh in slopestyle.

Voigt's big air breakthrough came at a World Cup event held at Boston's Fenway Park in February 2016 when she won bronze. Among her 2016-17 season highlights were a top-10 finish at the big air Olympic test event in PyeongChang and a World Cup slopestyle bronze at a highly competitive event in Quebec City where she landed a run she'd been wanting to do for a while. She ended the season with a second-place finish at a World Snowboard Tour event in Andorra.
A little more about Brooke
Getting into the sport: Started snowboarding at age 9 and competing provincially at age 12... Lived on an acreage which was close to the local ski hill, giving her something to do on the weekends... At 15 she moved away from home to be closer to the mountains... Loves being constantly challenged by learning new tricks and perfecting what she already knows... Outside Interests: Enjoys rock climbing, camping, learning to surf... Graduated from the National Sport School in Calgary... Odds and Ends: Underwent prolotherapy treatments to stabilize her SI joint and pelvic region after struggling with an overstretched/sprained ligament for a couple of years...

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Brooke Voigt was just 16 years old when she not only competed at her first World Cup slopestyle event, but won a silver medal in Calgary in January 2010. She also reached the podium in her next two World Cup events, winning silver again in Calgary in February 2011 and in Stoneham, Quebec in February 2012.

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Similar to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the US is probably the favorite in halfpipe when it comes to the snowboarding discipline, in both the men's and the women's field, but in slopestyle and big air, we would consider them relative underdogs in the men's field heading into the 2018 Winter Olympics, not because of a lack of skill or talent, but the sheer fact that Norway, Canada and Finland are big time contenders in those fields. With halfpipe and women's slopestyle and big air, the US is relying on the efforts of Shaun White, Hailey Langland, Danny Davis, Kelly Clark, Jamie Anderson, Chloe Kim or a handful of others to bring home the gold and the chances of that happening are pretty good. However, in men's slopestyle and big air, kids like Redmond Gerard, Kyle Mack, Brandon Davis, Chris Corning and Judd Henkes are newcomers to the scene and competing in their first-ever Olympics if they do indeed qualify. It's going to be interesting to see what happens outside of the halfpipe in PyeongChang, but in our opinion, this is the best that the US has ever looked in terms of sheer volume of talent heading into the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Qualification/Selection Process
The US is allowed to have four athletes per gender, per event, but slopestyle and big air count as the same event. In order to be eligible for the Korea Games, each athlete has to have a top 30 World Cup finish from July 1 st, 2016 and January 21 st, 2018 and 50 FIS points by January 22 nd, 2018. For halfpipe, there will be four events held this season to give the athletes a chance to make the team and for slopestyle and big air, the athletes will be given five events to qualify. Based on top results, three riders per gender per event will be selected for the US Olympic Team and one athlete per gender, per event, will be chosen based on "medal potential" by the Head Coach of the US. It's gonna get confusing and heated, so pay attention in this coming season as the US Team starts to get named heading into the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games.
Favorites in Slope and Big Air
Chris Corning
Recently, the hashtag #WhoTheF**kIsChrisCorning has been going around and for good reason. Chris exploded onto the contest scene last year, making his big international debut at the 2017 Burton US Open where he went full cyborg on the entire field and failed to fall in all three of his runs and ended up in 5 th place. Since then, Chris has been training and focusing on new tricks, which, quite frankly, should scare the hell out of anyone trying to make the US squad. The kid is consistent and he's very young, and something tells us that he's going to be a big-time underdog threat in South Korea.

New Hampshire-bred veteran Chas Guldemond has been doing this for a very long time. As the oldest rider on the US slopestyle team, he's still around for a reason, which is unusual in competitive snowboarding, where the average career of a slopestyle rider is two or three years. That's exactly why we put him on this list, because in order to have that kind of longevity in this discipline, Chas holds incredible skill and he is one of the strongest riders, both physically and mentally, alive. Of note is that Chas has been perfecting triple corks and incorporating them into his runs, which makes us think that we very well might see him in South Korea in both the slopestyle and big air realm.
Favorites in Halfpipe
Shaun White
Surprise surprise. It's absolutely insane that Shaun White will be 31 years old by the time the 2018 Games come around and he's still the favorite. His sheer dominance and longevity makes him one of the greatest snowboarders who has ever strapped in, let alone his accolades. Back-to-back gold medals at the 2006 Torino Games and the 2010 Vancouver Games cemented his legacy and although he failed to podium in a shitty Sochi halfpipe, it was widely understood that Shaun lost the gold in those Games, rather than Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov won the gold in those Games. There are few descriptors that can be thrown out about Shaun that haven't been written a thousand times over, but just know that he's the favorite at this point and he's been spotted training hard at Mammoth Mountain toward the end of the season and he's already talking about the 2022 Games down the line. Is another back-to-back gold medal win in the cards? Don't cast doubt quite yet, because Shaun is snowboarding's Superman, and he thrives on disbelief like no other rider in history.
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U.S. Snowboarding an Underdog for the 2018 Winter Olympics?

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Similar to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the US is probably the favorite in halfpipe when it comes to the snowboarding discipline, in both the men's and the women's field, but in slopestyle and big air, we would consider them relative underdogs in the men's field heading into the 2018 Winter Olympics, not because of a lack of skill or talent, but the sheer fact that Norway, Canada and Finland are big time contenders in those fields.

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He's a snow boarder that was recently hurt again in a crash that scarred up his face pretty badly one on his forehead and on his nose.

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Since making his X Games debut as a 13-year-old, Shaun White has evolved into one of snowboarding's most recognizable faces.

His career in the sport has been filled with success, but it was his back-to-back gold medals at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics that really vaulted him into a mainstream superstar. He's parlayed that into off-the-snow success as well: a fruitful skateboarding career, his own clothing line, a stint as a guitarist in a rock band, ownership of the popular Air & Style contest series.

But in his most recent Olympic appearance - the Sochi Games in 2014 - White fell short of expectations. He had qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in both slopestyle and halfpipe, but pulled out of slopestyle after citing safety concerns with the course. That left White free to focus on earning a three-peat in halfpipe, his signature event and one he was heavily favored to win. After a fall on his first run, White had several uncharacteristic mistakes in his second run that kept him out of medal position altogether. He ended up finishing fourth, while his good friend, Iouri Podladtchikov of Switzerland, took the gold medal.

It's that experience - which White admits he's never truly gotten over - fueling the SoCal native's competitive fire heading into the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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Since making his X Games debut as a 13-year-old, Shaun White has evolved into one of snowboarding's most recognizable faces. His career in the sport has been filled with success, but it was his back-to-back gold medals at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics that really vaulted him into a mainstream superstar.

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Olympic Snowboarding - Winter Olympic Sport

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Access official Olympic Snowboard sport and athlete records, events, results, photos, videos, news and more.

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The first Olympics to have snowboarding was 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.