Unfortunately for this talented snowboarder from South Lake Tahoe, what appears to be her final Olympics will clearly not be the most memorable for Jamie Anderson. In Monday’s Big Air competition, Anderson failed to qualify for the finals and her stay at the Beijing Olympics is over. She earned a silver medal in the event’s […]
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Jamie Anderson falters in quest for third Olympic Slopeside gold medal
A third straight Olympic gold medal in women’s snowboard slopestyle will have to wait for South Lake Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson. The outstanding snowboarding prodigy from Sierra-at-Tahoe, failed to delivery in three error-prone runs Saturday at the Beijing Olympics. Her top score (60.78) wasn’t close to earning Anderson a medal. She finished 9th. The 31-year-old Anderson […]
Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson wins Mammoth World Cup
Lake Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson – the reigning queen of women’s slopeside competition – proved it again, winning Saturday (Jan. 8) at the Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain in California. A two-time Olympic gold medalist snowboarder in slopestyle, Anderson looked totally under control in landing a switch double cork 1080 at Mammoth on her last hit […]
Another Olympics for Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson
Although she’s competed all over the world, snowboarder Jamie Anderson’s happy place remains the modest ski resort of her youth – Sierra-at-Tahoe. Riding on a hand-me-down snowboard at the South Lake Tahoe ski resort off Highway 50 was the bomb when the 9-year-old Anderson first took up the sport in 2000. Sierra-at-Tahoe became her home […]