Terje Haakonsen has been delivering that message since before 1998, when snowboarding made its debut at the Olympics. In 14 months, snowboarding will make its seventh appearance at the Olympics, at the 2022 Games in Beijing. “The way FIS is running snowboarding is how a parent would take over a kids’ sport,” Haakonsen said that day. He's never been to an Olympics, has never sat down to watch an Olympic snowboard contest and has largely steered clear of buying products made by Olympic sponsors. But when you read some of the headlines, you see in a lot of ways, the Olympics are really dividing us more.”

Source: Fox News December 12, 2020 14:03 UTC