The Mountain and Wave

Just a few days until the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics begin and 12 of Quiksilver Inc’s Athletes are set to take center stage.  The one-day Snowboard Halfpipe competitions will take place at Cypress Mountain on Wednesday, February 17 for men’s and Thursday January 18 for women’s.

The tension is high as these amazing athletes compete against the world’s best for a chance at the GOLD. Join us in congratulating these talented individuals and rooting for them in their quest for sports ultimate accomplishment.

Quiksilver
Mathieu Crepel- France
Fredrik Austbo- Norway
Micah Ligocki- Poland

Roxy
Torah Bright- Australia
Kjersti Buaas- Norway
Paulina Logocka- Poland
Lisa Wiik- Norway
Kendal Brown- New Zealand
Lesley McKenna- Britain
Mirabelle Thovex- France

Gnu/Lib Tech
Ben Mates- Australia
Sergio Berger- Switzerland

As the X Games come to life this week in Aspen, CO, look for Travis Rice to try to defend his Big Air gold and take to the slopestyle course with a handful of new tricks. Rice will be joined in slopestyle by 16-year-old Quiksilver rookie Sage Kotsenburg, who is also in the qualifiers for a place in the Big Air contest.

Last year, with the help of tens of thousands of fans Rice took the Big Air win in text message voting with a double-cork 1080. This year tune in to ESPN, January 30th starting at 9:00EST/6:00PST Rice, as he lays down the heaviest tricks in snowboarding.

The next afternoon both Rice and Kotsenburg will be hitting the booters and rails of Buttermilk’s slopestyle course for another shot at a medal. Rice climbed the podium for X Games slopestyle in 2005 and won the U.S. Open for slopestyle in 2007.

Kotsenburg is packing a pocketful of progressive tricks to pull out on both the slopestyle course and possibly also in big air the night before. Look for his cab double-cork 1260, which he’s been stomping regularly in practice. Currently, the Park City local is in second place for the Dew Tour Cup for slopestyle having taken 2nd place in Breckenridge and 3rd at Snowbasin. The final event of the Dew Tour takes place February 4th-7th at Mt. Snow, VT.

Todd goes to Park City with his new MTV co-host, Dirty.

Sage Kotsenburg is on fire! In the running for the Dew Tour overall slopestyle cup after finishing third at Snowbasin this weekend and second in Brek. Look out for the 16-year-old’s cab double-cork 1260 at the X Games and Mt. Snow next month, it’s nasty.

Todd and friends play a fun game of Air Soft Roulette.