It may not be as big as football, basketball or even gymnastics (here at the U, at least), but freeskiing is a burgeoning sport with prime-time stages, like ESPN’s X-Games, to showcase its disciplines. One of those disciplines, slopestyle, will make its Winter Olympic debut in 2014 at the Sochi Games in Russia. The hottest
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Two Utes Named to U.S. Freeskiing Team
Freeskiing is finally getting its due on the world stage with the introduction of slopestyle as an Olympic event. While Sochi 2014 is a little ways off, the U.S. Freeskiing Slopestyle Pro Team has been selected for 2012 and two University of Utah students — Grete Eliassen and Tom Wallisch — have made the squad.