Snowboarding 2020 - 2021 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 9,104]

[Gianlu33 1,847]

FISI announced the Italian team for the next season. The main teams are:

 

Alpine Slalom

Daniele Bagozza

Maurizio Bormolini

Edwin Coratti

Mirko Felicetti

Ronald Fischnaller

Aaron March

Nadya Ochner

 

Snowboard cross

Emanuel Perathoner

Lorenzo Sommariva

Omar Visintin

Filippo Ferrari

Michele Godino

Sofia Berlinghieri

Raffaella Brutto

Francesca Gallina

Michela Moioli

 

Slopestyle

Loris Framarin

Emiliano Lauzi

Nicola Liviero

Emilian Zulian

Alberto Maffei

 

[NearPup 458]

The FIS has renamed the “mute grab” to the “Weddle grab”, following efforts from Tony Hawk to rename the trick to better honor it’s creator, Chris Weddle.

[heywoodu 9,104]

Snowboard cross legend (double Olympci gold, 6-time World Cup crystal globe winner) Pierre Vaultier has announced his retirement  

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/snowboard/snowboard-cross/news-multimedia/news-multimedia/news/sbx-great-pierre-vaultier-announces-retirement

[Olympian1010 3,211]

 

[intoronto 1,222]

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/canada-snowboard-team-covid-19-1.5878930

 

[rybak 1,138]

After all Calgary will not host part of Snowboarding/Freestyle skiing World Championships.

[hckošice 4,876]

Parallel World Championships will be in Rogla, Slovenia the 1st and 2nd March 2021 with only the Individuals Parallel Giant Slaloms the 1st and Parallel Slalom events held the 2nd.

 

One week later the venue will host also the originally scheduled World Cup stage.