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2014 – Another Awesome Year for Snowboarding

February

  • Shaun White takes a slam on the road to Sochi

  • Jenny Jones on that Olympic podium! Photo: Nick Atkins/Scene Images

  • Snowboarding enters the Paralympics for the first time

  • Will Gilmore at the Whitelines Rail Jam at The Brits. Photo: Sam McMahon

  • Matt Macwhirter made a welcome return to snowboarding at Spring Break. Photo: Ed Blomfield

  • TTR ignore the elephant in the room...

  • Jamie Anderson, #BreakTheChairlift. Photo: ESPN

  • Zoe Gillings missed out on a place in the Olympics finals AND funding for the next cycle

  • Regis Rolland and an APO split as Apo splits from Regis Rolland. Photo: Fluofun

  • The Bad Seeds - 2014's best film

  • Halldor waves goodbye to Nike

  • Travis Rice loves crack. Photo: Scott Serfas/Red Bull

February

February 2014 was, of course, all about the Olympics. From the dramatic beginnings – slopestyle favourite Torstein Horgmo breaking his collarbone in practice, Shaun White pulling out of slopestyle and Cheryl Maas’ pro-gay protest – right through and to the end – the BBC commentary ‘scandal’, Anna Gassers’ mind melt and the “garbage” halfpipe – there was non-stop drama on and off the snow for the whole fortnight!

But as it ever was, history will remember the victors above all else: Sage Kotsenburg and Jamie Anderson in slopestyle (not for a second forgetting our own Jenny Jones’ bronze!) and Iouri Podladtchikov and Kaitlyn Farrington in halfpipe.

However, let us not forget those who flew so close but didn’t quite make it: Billy Morgan qualifying in first in the slopestyle semi-finals, Jamie Nicholls coming so close to what might have been another medal winning run (cab 1440, switch backside 1260 and a backside triple cork 1440!) and Shaun White’s return trip home sans medals. But most of all, let us remember the insane lemming-style madness that was six man boardercross – officially the most entertaining snowboarding contest ever.

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