Author: Rachel Axon, USA TODAY

Shaun White reflected back on the beginning, first telling the story of his first snowboard and then concluding with one about Jake Burton Carpenter.

Shaun White finished fourth at the Beijing Olympics, capping off a career in which he won three gold medals but couldn’t add to them in China.

Canadian Max Parrot, diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in December 2018, won the slopestyle competition at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Mark McMorris and other riders break down the features that make the Beijing Olympic slopestyle course so tricky and what it will take to win gold.

Julia Marino used a huge second run to win silver in women’s snowboard slopestyle as US teammate Jamie Anderson finished ninth.

The U.S. freeski and snowboard teams have switched to Spyder and Volcom, respectively, from their longtime partners The North Face and Burton.

The Super Bowl kickoff time is just before Nick Goepper competes in slopestyle freeskiing qualifying at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.

The U.S. finished the Tokyo Olympics with 113 overall medals to China’s 88, and American women won 66 of those medals.

The Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde. and the Château de Versailles will play prominent roles at the next Summer Olympics in three years in France.