Lesley McKenna: What Can Skating, Surfing and Climbing Learn From Snowboarding's Olympic Experience?
This week: 3 x Olympic snowboarder and programme manager for Park and Pipe at GB Snowsport Lesley McKenna shares her learnings from two decades at the heart of the Olympic snowboarding conversation.
Introduction
25 years in, snowboarding is still finding its feet within the Olympic picture. If anything, the long-standing gap between what is seen as ‘Olympic’ snowboarding and what is seen as ‘core’ snowboarding in a competitive context, is wider than ever, and this affects how these two elements interact on many levels. Th…
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