Media information leading up to and including the Lake Placid 2007 World Cup Snowboard http://www.lakeplacidevents.net The State Farm U.S. Snowboard Cup scored a bonus last week as U.S. Snowboarding announced the addition of a second snowboardcross to the lone U.S. stop on the World Cup tour. The program now calls for SBX races on Thursday, March 8 and Sunday the 11th with a halfpipe contest on the Saturday the 10th at Whiteface in nearby Wilmington followed by the perennial Paul Mitchell Progression Session later that evening. http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.whiteface.com/newsroom/storydetails.php?id=967 Brooke Shaw (Stratton Mountain, VT), who was second in Friday's snowboardcross event, continued to dominate the 2007 Chevrolet Revolution Tour Saturday winning the Spirit Mountain halfpipe with U.S. Snowboarding rookie team rider Dylan Bidez (Minturn, CO) earning his first win in the men's pipe. http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/pressreleases/release8.html Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT), who won her second straight snowboardcross World Championship in January, finished second Saturday in the season opening World Cup SBX with back-to-back X Games champion Nate Holland (Squaw Valley, CA) also in second. Another U.S. Snowboarding rider, Callan Chythlook-Sifsof (Girdwood, AK) finished third in her career first World Cup competition. http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/pressreleases/release7.html Steve Fisher (Breckenridge, CO) unloaded a huge first run and stomped it clean Sunday to win his second X Games gold medal in halfpipe, halting Olympic gold medalist Shaun White's (Carlsbad, CA) chance of capturing a record seventh Winter X gold medal. The 2004 X champion and U.S. Snowboarding rider became only the third to accomplish double gold in halfpipe joining 1998 Olympian Todd Richards ('97,'00) and White ('03,'05). http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/pressreleases/release6.html Olympic silver medalist Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) defended her 2005 world title, taking gold Sunday in snowboardcross at the FIS Snowboard World Championships in Arosa. U.S. Snowboarding riders Seth Wescott (Carrabassett Valley, ME) and Nate Holland (Squaw Valley, CA) took silver and bronze in the men's SBX. http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/pressreleases/release5.html Four Olympic medalists will headline a team of 27 riders for the United States at the 2007 FIS Snowboard World Championships slated for Jan. 14-20 in Arosa, Switzerland, U.S. Snowboarding announced. Among the group are reigning World Champions and 2006 Olympic snowboardcross medalists Seth Wescott (Carrabassett Valley, ME) and Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT), as well as Olympic medalists Gretchen Bleiler (halfpipe; Aspen, CO) and Chris Klug (PGS; Aspen, CO). http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/pressreleases/release4.html U.S. Snowboarding pro and Breckenridge local Steve Fisher owned the village downtown Saturday night to win the Paul Mitchell Progression Session quarterpipe and an automatic ticket to The Oakley Arctic Challenge (TAC). Fisher ruled the jam format session boosting a barrage of tricks including a big corked frontside 720, backside 540 and a pair of 900s for the $5,000 payday. http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/pressreleases/release3.html For the third consecutive year, the Chevrolet U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix opens at Breckenridge Resort, once again voted the best halfpipe in North America by readers of Transworld Snowboarding Magazine. http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/pressreleases/release2.html Olympic medalists Hannah Teter (Belmont, VT), Seth Wescott (Carrabassett Valley, ME), Gretchen Bleiler (Aspen, CO) and Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) headline a talent-packed group of 45 riders on the 2007 U.S. Snowboarding roster that also includes talented riders Shaun Palmer (South Lake Tahoe, CA), plus X Games medalists Steve Fisher (Breckenridge, CO) and Scotty Lago (Seabrook, NH) to name a few, announced U.S. Snowboarding Program Director Jeremy Forster. http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/pressreleases/release1.html The two-time Winter Olympic village of Lake Placid, N.Y. will welcome many athletes from the Torino Winter Olympics as its yearly lineup of sports action continues, including World Cup events in bobsled, skeleton, freestyle skiing and snowboarding during the 2006-07 season. http://www.orda.org/newsite/events/worldcups/200607/snowboard/media.php http://www.whiteface.com/newsroom/storydetails.php?id=881