Todd Richards (snowboarder)

For the ice hockey player and coach, see Todd Richards (ice hockey).

Todd Richards is a snowboarder from Paxton, Massachusetts. Richards helped introduce "skate style" at a time when the sport was mainly influenced by alpine racing events. Richards grew up skateboarding on the East Coast and translated his skills on four wheels to riding a halfpipe made of snow.

During his career, Richards won multiple US Open halfpipe titles, X Games gold medals, and World Championship firsts.[1][2] He was a member of the 1998 US Olympic Halfpipe Team in Nagano.[3] In 2003, Richards published an autobiography titled P3: Parks, Pipes, and Powder. He has done color commentary for NBC's coverage of the Torino,[4] Vancouver, Sochi, Pyeongchang,[1] and Beijing Olympic Games[5] and has produced a series of webisodes entitled "Todcasts for Quiksilver."[6]

Richards is the subject of a documentary entitled "Me, Myself and I" that was released in 2009.

Actor

He played a former professional snowboarder in the 2001 movie Out Cold.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "TODD RICHARDS". NBC Sports Pressbox. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  2. ^ "Todd Richards's official X Games athlete biography". X Games. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  3. ^ "Olympic Athletes: Todd Richards". Olympics.
  4. ^ Peters, Justin (2018-02-16). "Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis Deserved the Redemption Narrative NBC Gave Shaun White". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  5. ^ "'I Am Irate': Snowboarding Analyst Goes Off After Ayumu Hirano's Low Score". NBC New York. February 11, 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  6. ^ Tuesday Todcasts
  7. ^ "How 'Out Cold' Went from Box Office Flop to Cult Classic (It Took 20 Years)". Ski Mag. 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2022-02-13.


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