Joel Reichenberger
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Happy Trails
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Taylor Fletcher had two years to think about what he wanted to say in his final conversation with his father, and he thought a little more → Read More
Father, son make memories at the World Cup
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — There was a moment, after the national anthems but before the ball was rolling, when nearly the entire crowd packed into the Spartak Stadium in Moscow → Read More
US Nordic combined team struggles in final event of 2018 Winter Olympics
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The end came with a dedicated effort, a sharp sprint but still a frustrating result Thursday as the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team wrapped up → Read More
Steamboat’s Olympic snowboard success years in the making
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Jon Casson no longer coaches snowboarders. He coaches coaches, he said, but he couldn’t help but feel invested, perhaps overly so, as riders advanced again → Read More
Looking south on the border from North Korea
KOREAN DEMILITARIZED ZONE — Even on the South Korean side of the border — the sane side, right? — actual facts can sometimes be difficult to come by.On a → Read More
Chris Del Bosco crashes hard in Olympic ski cross event
BONGPYEONG, South Korea — Skiers weighed in ahead of Wednesday’s ski cross men’s event at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, asking that → Read More
Inside the hard work and thrilling moments of calling the 2018 Winter Olympics
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — It’s 7:45 p.m. at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the NBC crew that’s preparing to broadcast the night’s big event, → Read More
Disappointment for U.S. as Nordic combined begins at 2018 Olympics
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The opportunity was there, Bryan Fletcher said.The race wasn’t.After jumping to 18th position in Wednesday’s Nordic combined normal hill competition, the first Nordic combined event → Read More
Steamboat’s Dierdorff charges to gold-medal final but just short of podium at 2018 Winter Olympics
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Mick Dierdorff took his dream of an Olympic gold medal from the base of Howelsen Hill, where he began learning to ski and snowboard before → Read More
Pates smiles proud as White glimmers gold in men’s snowboard halfpipe
BONGPYEONG, South Korea — Shaun White, Ayumu Hirano and Scotty James traded blows at the top to ensure Wednesday’s men’s snowboard halfpipe finals at the 2018 Winter Olympics would → Read More
Bronze for Gold! Steamboat’s Arielle Gold goes big to score Olympic medal in women’s halfpipe
BONGPYEONG, South Korea — It takes courage to go big on a snowboard in the halfpipe, a willingness to commit to the point it can scare even those who’ve → Read More
Gold makes medal round
BOKWANG PHOENIX PARK, South Korea — It took two trips to the far side of the world over a span of four years, dozens of key competition runs and → Read More
Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson claims repeat gold as wind whips slopestyle
As her competition raised hell, Jamie Anderson raised her arms. Anderson's been atop the women's snowboard slopestyle world for much of the last decade, so long, she said, it at times got frustrating the sport didn't progress around her. That's changed in recent seasons and she was no lock this week at the 2018 Winter… → Read More
Inside Red’s head
Snowboarding is not about the Olympics for Red Gerard.It’s about barbecues with friends while they grind the rails in his backyard, about days in the backcountry filming big drops → Read More
‘Don’t get caught’: Bulls and Bands bullfighting series debuts in Steamboat Springs
Sometimes, professional bull fighter Wacey Munsell said, you “get caught.”Munsell passes along that wisdom like someone might when they observe that sometimes it rains — an unavoidable part of → Read More
Gettin’ grimy at the Cowpie
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The plan was 20 teams, easily enough for a full day of rugby at the annual Cowpie Classic rugby tournament in Steamboat Springs.There’s something about the → Read More
X Games medalist Matt Ladley takes on ‘Amazing Race’
Matt Ladley wasn’t new to the idea of having fans.The Steamboat Springs professional snowboarder followed up multiple X Games appearances with a gold medal in 2016, then a silver → Read More