Snowboarding
Jasey-Jay Anderson’s Last Hurrah
CTVOlympics.ca has a great profile of Canadian snowboard star Jasey-Jay Anderson, who’s amassed countless accolades, awards and wins in both slalom and snowboard cross events throughout his career.
The Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Anderson’s fourth, will be his last. At the end of the season, Anderson reportedly plans to end his competitive snowboarding career. Because Anderson did not medal in his other Olympic appearances (according to his Wikipedia entry his best finish was a fifth-place finish in the 2006 snowboard cross event), he’s really gunning for a medal now. He seems confident, feels good, and believes his technology is in the right place. (It’s interesting how much time and effort snowboard teams seem to spend on keeping their technological advances hidden from other teams.)
Here’s hoping Jasey-Jay’s last season ends with a great showing in Van City.
(Photo courtesy of jaseyjay.com)
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Jasey-Jay Anderson jumps, jibs and jams better than any snowboarder on the planet. The Canadian is one of the leaders on the 2001 Snowboardcross and Parallel Giant Slalom tours and now he’s got his eyes set on an Olympic gold medal.