US Olympic Snowboard Team Announced
Shaun White, Lindsey Jacobellis and Seth Wescott will lead the 16-member U.S. Olympic Snowboard Team to Torino this month.
After the successes of the 2002 games at Salt Lake City - the US team "have a huge legacy to live up to" - according to U.S. Snowboarding Program Director Jeremy Forster.
With teams from all over the world coming to compete in the newly recognised Olympic sport - competition will be tougher this year than any before - with the Finns and Candadians sending promising teams and even the UK sending a four strong team.
One exception is India - they are sending an Olympic team but no Snowboarders. Does nobody go Snowboarding in the lower reaches of the Himalayas or in Nepal? You'd think it would be a natural - maybe next time.
Tougher competition is a good thing - we should see some outstanding Snowboarding from all the competing countries this year as they tough it out into the finals - good luck to all of them.
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