Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Pictograms for, clockwise from top left, cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and giant parallel slalom.
VenueRosa Khutor Extreme Park, Krasnaya Polyana, Russia
Dates6–22 February 2014
No. of events10
Competitors243 from 31 nations
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Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi was held at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. The events were held between 6 and 22 February 2014.[1] A total of ten snowboarding events were held at Sochi 2014 which include parallel giant slalom, snowboard cross, half-pipe, and the new events of parallel slalom and slopestyle.[2]

A crash in practice from Norwegian slopestyle snowboarder Torstein Horgmo, who fractured his collarbone, and complaints from other athletes that some jumps were too steep prompted organisers to modify the slopestyle course in the week before the Games.[3]

  1. ^ "Competition Schedule". SOCOG. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  2. ^ Gillespie, Kerry (30 October 2013). "Sochi 2014: Younger, hipper Olympics to feature slew of new events". Toronto Star. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Sochi Snowboarding Course Deemed Too Dangerous After Accident". The Moscow Times. 3 February 2014. Archived from the original on 6 February 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2014.