At Torino, snowboard cross is making its Olympic debut. Each nation can send up to 16 athletes in snowboarding, with a maximum of ten males or ten females.
http://www.torino.olympics.com.au/sports.cfm?SportID=35&DisciplineID=29

Making its debut in the Olympics, snowboard cross is a pure race to the finish line that does not incorporate tricks. On Friday the women's field was narrowed from 23 to 16 by ...
http://www.wisn.com/olympics2006/7173510/detail.html

Snowboarding debuted in the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. People everywhere rushed out to try snowboarding and the sport became one of the most popular winter pastimes.
http://extremesports.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_history_of_snowboarding

Men?s and ladies? snowboarding made their Olympic debuts at the Nagano Games in 1998 with Alpine and freestyle competitions. One of the most popular sports in Nagano ...
http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=SB&sportCode=SI

Making its debut in the Olympics, snowboard cross is a pure race to the finish line that does not incorporate tricks. On Friday the women's field was narrowed from 23 to 16 by ...
http://www.wlwt.com/olympics2006/7173510/detail.html

Now comes a new discipline -- snowboard cross, which makes its Olympic debut in Turin. It's a wild hybrid of snowboarding's two other Olympic disciplines -- halfpipe, a judged ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/2006/special_section/day7.html

BMX made its Olympic debut in Beijing with lots of crashes and plenty of action. ... Open Snowboarding Championships; 2008 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards; Vonn's Road to ...
http://community.active.com/blogs/actionsports/2008/08/26/bmx-olympic-debut-recap

... not quite what USOC President Bill Hybl had in mind when he said last month that snowboarders' "different culture ... will be good for the Olympic movement" in snowboarding's debut ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/snowboard/articles/uniform.htm

After snowboarding debuted in the 1998 Olympics with two events, it returned in the 2002 and 2006 Olympic games. In Italy in 2006, snowboarding consisted of four events in both men ...
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-snowboarding.htm

Everything went according to plan when BMX made its Olympic debut Wednesday, writes Alan ... the suits trying to replicate in the Summer Games the cool factor that first snowboard ...
http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/news/newsid=238687.html

Zoe Gillings hopes to star for Britain ... It's fast and furious and it has made its Winter Olympics debut. Snowboard cross is similar to motocross and involves competitors racing ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/4711818.stm

... history on February 11 with the first medals sweep in the history of Olympic snowboarding. ... Blanc, who fell from second to 22nd in her 1998 Olympic debut after crashing on the ...
http://www.utaholympicpark.com/uop/olympics_snowboarding.asp

Snowboarding's debut at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano was nothing spectacular. It wasn't until four years later, that the event became a big Olympic draw.
http://www.sikids.com/2008/sifk/08/22/olympics.bmx/index.html

BARDONECCHIA, Italy (Feb. 21) - U.S. snowboarder Tyler Jewell (Sudbury, MA) makes his Olympic debut Wednesday in the parallel giant slalom. Jewell, who turned 29 today, began as a ...
http://www.usocpressbox.org/usoc/pressbox.nsf/adfb2190101cc188872570ce00505f27/77cbe3e5f9bb889d8525711c0040060b?OpenDocument

Your guide to Olympic snowboarding on the Web. ... The Turino Games in 2006 saw the debut of Snowboard ...
http://www.chiff.com/olympics/olympics-snowboard.htm

Thanks to an idiotic mistake by the I.O.C., snowboarding's debut is going to be remembered as the year those wacky pot smokers invaded the Olympics, not as the year snowboarding ...
http://www.time.com/time/reports/olympics/snowboarding2.html

Both halfpipe events were staged at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games, where the sport of snowboarding debuted. The parallel giant slalom events appear on the Salt Lake ...
http://www.kiat.net/olympics/sports/winter/snowboarding.html

Special Olympics Snowboarding is gaining momentum because it's hip, stylish ... At its debut in international competition, 23 athletes ...
http://www.specialolympicswisconsin.org/sports_snowboarding.html

Snowboard cross makes its Olympic debut at Torino 2006. Each nation can send up to 16 athletes in snowboarding, with a maximum of ten males or ten females.
http://corporate.olympics.com.au/sports.cfm?SportID=35&DisciplineID=29

Both halfpipe events were contested at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games, where the sport of snowboarding debuted. The parallel giant slalom events appear ...
http://www.kiat.net/olympics/slc2002/snowboarding.html

Snowboarding came into the Olympics with a renegade, rebellious image. It's leaving with its reputation intact. The enfant terrible of winter sports made its Olympic debut with a ...
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/events/1998/nagano/sports/oly_snowboarding.html

Snowboarding made its Olympic debut in the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan with a total of four competitions divided into two categories: men's & women's half pipe and men's ...
http://webpages.shepherd.edu/KPOTTE02/Competitions/winter_olympics.html

The event of snowboard cross, or SBX, is making its Olympic debut at the Winter Games in Turin. Four snowboarders race down a course at the same time in the event, dodging each ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5219023

Do you know what year snowboarding made its Olympic debut? Nathan Bilow/Allsport
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/news/snowboarding_quiz/

1998 - Snowboarding debuts at the Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan. Ross Powers, who is considered to be snowboarding's first child prodigy, and Shannon Dunn earned bronze medals in ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Snowboarding

This site has links to information about Snowboarding at the Olympic Games ... international popularity over the next few decades, making its debut as an Olympic ...
http://www.sirlinksalot.net/snowboarding.html

Jewell Makes Olympic Debut Wednesday : BARDONECCHIA, Italy (Feb. 21) - U.S. snowboarder Tyler Jewell (Sudbury, MA) makes his Olympic debut Wednesday in the parallel giant slalom.
http://www.ussnowboard.com/public/news.php?&dId=7&aId=2015

Swiss rider Philipp Schoch won gold, Swede Richard Richardsson won silver and American Chris Klug (Aspen, CO) took bronze. The '98 Nagano Olympics, at which snowboarding debuted ...
http://www.usskiteam.com/public/news.php?dId=7&aId=2015

Both halfpipe and giant slalom events were staged at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games, where the sport of snowboarding made its debut. The parallel giant slalom events appeared on the ...
http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=SB