
When the world’s top freeskiers hit the slopes for the first-ever Olympic Slopestyle competition in February, Colorado native Bobby Brown will be there representing the stars and stripes.
He’s stoked to compete in front of the world, relishing the new opportunity that was afforded freeskiers like him when the IOC announced slopestyle was added to the Olympics on July 4, 2011.
Brown is no stranger to competition, having won six X-Games medals in his three year career and was the first skier to win two gold medals in a single X-Games.
For those unfamiliar, slopestyle skiing competition takes place in a terrain park of constructed jumps, rails and features upon which athletes perform tricks, which are then judged for a score.
So in a relatively short time, teams from around the world scrambled to put together rosters and train athletes, many of whom never imagined that their sport would one day play on the Olympic stage.

