Today’s electrifyingly intense TAC final saw Arthur Longo (FRA) claim the title and walk away with the biggest part of the $ 100 000 USD total prize purse and 1000 Swatch TTR ranking points, launching him into TTR World No. 7. Newcomer, Matt Ladley (USA) took second place while Antti Autti (FIN) came in third who shot into TTR World No.5.
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Snowboarding’s Original and Longest Running Competition to Award Over $200,000 in Prizes
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Omatic pro-rider Josh Sherman is hosting the second stop of the Pee Wee Sherman Rail Jam at Mountain High on March 7, 2009. After three years of only hosting this grassroots amateur rail jam at his home resort in Wisconsin, Josh and his shop sponsor Active have added a second stop at Mountain High. The Pee Wee Sherman Rail Jam is for boys and girls 18 and under and prizes include product from Josh’s sponsors Omatic, Drop, Smith, Elm, and Active. There will also be a huge product toss and a poster signing with Josh at the end of the day. Come and compete at the first-ever second stop of the Pee Wee Sherman Rail Jam at Mountain High, enjoy the day, and cheer on your friends.
Check out live event webcasts on GO211.com, featuring the men’s and women’s slopestyle and halfpipe semi-finals and finals taking place on February 26 - 28 at ALTS Bandai Resort in Fukushima, Japan.
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Registration is Still Open for All Events Through Thursday, February 26 at 3 p.m. MST
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STONEHAM, QUE (Feb. 20) - Canadian and Japanese riders dominated the halfpipe at the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup in Stoneham. U.S. Snowboarding Rookie Team riders Zack Black (Breckenridge, CO) and Kaitlyn Farrington (Sun Valley, ID) qualified for finals and finished ninth and seventh in the night finals.
It was an impressive finish for Black, making finals in his first World Cup and coming home with a top 10. Farrington’s seventh was her second top 10 this season, after a sixth in New Zealand last fall. She was the silver medalist last season at the World Junior Championships.
The Canadian World Cup stop continues Saturday with a parallel giant slalom.
OFFICIAL RESULTS
LG FIS SNOWBOARD WORLD CUP
Feb. 20, 2009 - Stoneham, QUE
Halfpipe
Men
1. Jeff Batchelor, Canada, 45.5
2. Brad Martin, Canada, 44.2
3. Markus Malin, Finland, 43.2
4. Gary Zebrowski, France, 42.0
5. Justin LaMoureux, Canada, 41.6
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9. Zack Black, Breckenridge, CO, 35.6
Did not qualify for finals
15. Dylan Bidez, Minturn, CO
18. Broc Waring, Edwards, CO
26. Brennen Swanson, Stillwater, MN
Women
1. Soko Yamaoka,Japen, 44.3
2. Shiho Nakashima, Japan, 40.4
3. Rana Okada, Japan, 37.8
4. Sarah Conrad, Canada, 35.5
5. Juliann Bray, New Zealand, 34.5
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7. Kaitlyn Farrington, Sun Valley, ID, 34.0
Did not qualify for finals
18. Madeline Schaffrick, Steamboat Springs, CO
22. Kelly Marren, Hillsborough, CA
28 Shelby Simpson, Bondville, VT
32. Allyson Carroll, Truckee, CA
In a season where large scale events are falling like the Amazon’s trees before the chainsaws of sponsorship pullout, the Red Bull Snowscraper, which is going up on NYC’s Lower East Side for the Big Air In The Big Apple as part of the City’s Park Department’s Winter Jam NYC, is a beacon of hope rising in Gotham with a killer design.
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According to the Idaho Mountain Express:
The winter ski and snowboard events organized by 48 Straight have been canceled.
Kipp Nelson, Ketchum resident and co-founder of 48 Straight, said today that the ski and snowboard racing series has been canceled after the title sponsor Jeep withdrew its sponsorship. The events are formerly known as The Ski Tour.
“It’s not a very complicated story,” Nelson told the Idaho Mountain Express today. “We all know what’s going on in the auto industry. It’s just a cut in expenses.”
Nelson said attempts had been made over the past few weeks to reduce the scale of the series, but retain three events.
Like last year, the events were planned for Telluride, Colo., Squaw, Calif., and Sun Valley, and were to be largely funded through sponsorship from Jeep, an arm of the embattled auto manufacturer Chrysler.
Telluride town manager Frank Bell told the Idaho Mountain Express today that 48 Straight had notified his city that they were going to cancel events scheduled for December. Telluride Ski and Golf Company CEO Dave Riley confirmed the cancellation.
Sun Valley was to host 48 Straight from March 27 to 29.
“We’re disappointed, but I can understand how this would happen,” said Jack Sibbach, spokesman for Sun Valley Company.
When the event began in 2006, the racing series was accompanied by concerts, environmental symposiums and other events. It was founded by Ketchum residents Nelson and Steve Brown in 2006 under the name The Ski Tour.
Ketchum welcomed the Ski Tour in January 2007. Big-time athletes flocked to the ski and snowboard events, and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding, made the skiercross at Sun Valley a USSA sanctioned event.
Local athletes Zach and Reggie Crist also inspired enthusiasm for the event. Thousands of spectators gathered at Dollar Mountain to watch skiercross races.
In addition to ski and snowboard cross racing, 48 Straight also featured a halfpipe competition and was viewed as excellent promotion for the Sun Valley area, especially because of the coverage on national television.
Music was also a big part of “the loudest show on snow,” as the event described itself. National touring acts like The Wailers excited crowds.
The Idaho Department of Tourism estimated that the event generated millions of dollars of economic impact, from media attention to tourist business.
The cancellation of the Honda Session at Vail means yet another loss of a 6Star event on the top level of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour, after the recent cancellation of the Air&Style in Munich and the cancellation of the Slopestyle format at the Arctic Challenge in Oslo
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