Sentences with phrase «many halfpipes»

Tony Hawk knows that when you're hurtling down a halfpipe into an aerial spin, losing focus could get you seriously hurt.

Implementing a ROWE without a solid foundation of expectations and defined policies and procedures is like trying to do a quadruple backflip off the world's largest halfpipe after just learning to skateboard yesterday.

The company boasts all the trappings of a modern tech firm: The 54,000 - square - foot office in Montreal's up - and - coming Point - Saint - Charles neighbourhood has an indoor halfpipe for skateboarders like De Baene, the obligatory foosball tables and a full - time barista.

The ten Hendo boards being offered (for $ 10,000 each) sold out swiftly, in part thanks to a video of skate legend Tony Hawk zipping across a copper - plated halfpipe, a half - inch off the ground.

CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin reports on his conversation with Team Hungary skier Elizabeth Swaney who is making waves over her less - than - stellar performance in the halfpipe.

The USOC will award him $ 37,500 (tax free, thanks to Sen. Chuck Schumer) for his win in the men's halfpipe event.

One thing to know: Kenworthy is a medal favorite at Pyeongchang for skiing in two disciplines, halfpipe and slopestyle.

(One of the sport's leaders, Canadian Sarah Burke, is in a coma after a bad fall during halfpipe training in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 10.)

Skiers also invaded the halfpipe and terrain parks.

Shaun White's fourth - place finish in the halfpipe in Sochi in 2014 forced him to decide whether he still had the fire to compete.

Holly Crawford of Australia crashes in the snowboard ladies» halfpipe qualification at Phoenix Snow Park on Day 3 of the Olympics, which began Feb. 9 in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Two gold medals in the Olympic halfpipe and the favorite to...

In Sochi four years ago, David Wise was the first man to win gold in the ski halfpipe, which was then a brand - new Olympic event.

They're in town for an exhibition featuring the sport's new golden boy, Ross Powers, who led a U.S. sweep of the Olympic halfpipe event last month in Salt Lake City by soaring an astounding 18 feet above the tube's 17 - foot ramp.

«I was the first medalist to use the f word at an Olympic press conference,» he halfpipes up proudly.

Chloe Kim is already one of USA's biggest stars at the Winter Olympics, and on Monday the snowboarding superstar stomped one of the best runs of the day in women's halfpipe.

Snowboarding USSA Grand Prix The tour's 12th season kicks off in Breckenridge, Colo., where 16 - year - old Ellery Hollingsworth (right) finished eighth in the halfpipe last year.

Snowboarder Chloe Kim is a favorite to win gold for Team USA in the women's halfpipe, but that doesn't mean she's immune to being nervous.

While the progression of tricks in the halfpipe was dramatic between Nagano and the»06 Turin Games, won by a 19 - year - old phenom named Shaun White, since then it has achieved warp speed.

Surely these maneuvers represent the outer limits of what is possible on a halfpipe.

Last winter one of White's sponsors, Red Bull, dropped $ 500,000 to build the Animal his own private halfpipe in Silverton, Colo..

While her daughter was whisked away to mandatory drug - testing, Marion Bright talked about the afternoon in January when she returned home, made herself lunch, turned on the TV and saw video of her semiconscious daughter being carried from the halfpipe at the Winter X Games in Aspen.

As his rivals unleashed ever more difficult — and dangerous — double corks, high - flying Shaun White simply did everything better, winning gold again and extending U.S. dominance of the halfpipe

Twenty minutes before the start of the halfpipe competition in which U.S. men and women would win four of a possible six medals (for the third straight Olympics), the crowd of 2,000 - plus was treated to a blast from the past.

Swaney, a 33 - year - old Oakland resident who is competing for Hungary thanks to her grandparents» heritage, qualified by competing in 13 halfpipe events leading up to the games.

The halfpipe, however, is where White truly displays his distinctive style.

Going for these paths, and then opting for another easing up to the top of the wall, showing the judge she can make it down this halfpipe clean.

Elizabeth Swaney's run in the ladies» ski halfpipe looked a little different from those of her competitors, who soared through the air with spins, grabs, and flips.

Shaun White's otherworldly talents and trademark red hair have made him the boarder to watch in the Olympic halfpipe

«Going into a 1080 with a 900 — no one else has been able to do that,» says U.S. halfpipe coach Bud Keene.

In 2016, Kim carried the U.S. flag and won two gold medals at the Youth Olympic Games in halfpipe and slopestyle.

The 17 - year - old has done it for Team USA in the women's snowboard halfpipe!

With a large contingent of family members in the crowd, including her parents who were born in South Korea, Kim emphatically affirmed her status as the pre-games favorite in the halfpipe.

After missing out on the 2014 Sochi Olympics because she didn't yet meet the minimum - age requirement, Kim won a historic gold in the women's halfpipe at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics at age 17.

Bowman (below right), a 20 - year - old from South Lake Tahoe, Calif., and Wise, 23, from Reno, won the inaugural Olympic halfpipe skiing titles.

Watch Team GB athlete Madi Rowlands win the Gold medal at the second Winter Youth Olympic Games in the ladies freestyle ski halfpipe.

Rowlands» medal follows up her success in the halfpipe event earlier in the Games when her gold medal was the first ever won by a Team GB athlete on snow in the history of the Olympic and Youth Olympic Games.

When I made plans to to attend the 2010 Olympics, I purchased tickets early to make sure that I was there to watch the snowboarding events and the halfpipe finals, just as I had done for the men's and women's finals of the Snowboarding GS at Park City, Utah during the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Well, before introductions let me just say that I placed them directly behind the halfpipe only because I felt like torturing teenagers that day.

Raging Buffalo Snowboard and Ski Park in Algonquin became the world's first snowboard exclusive terrain park back in 1993 and features halfpipes, table tops, rails and other snowboard standards that would make Shaun White proud.

The temperature has settled into the mid-50s this week at the Sochi Olympics, and snowboarders were furious at the slushy condition of the halfpipe Tuesday.

OLYMPUS MONS is the solar system's sickest halfpipe.

The instrument is one of 11 NASA instruments specially transported to the Olympics to measure the quantity and type of snow falling on the slopes, tracks and halfpipes.

In 2006, I won a silver medal in the women's halfpipe event at the Winter Olympics.

Standing at the top of the halfpipe on the world's largest stage filled me with love, gratitude and total inspiration.

Not content to focus on defending her halfpipe...

Team USA halfpipe snowboard star Kelly Clark has already won two Olympic medals — a gold in 2002 and a bronze in 2010 — but that certainly hasn't...

Gold went on to explain that she was injured there because above - average temperatures made it difficult for athletes to practice on the halfpipe before competition day, when it was topped with fake snow and sprayed with «blue chemicals.»

But that's exactly what Team USA snowboarder Arielle Gold will be doing when she soars off the halfpipe in Sochi.

Their halfpipes are some of the best in the world, and make for great contests.