SNOWBOARD HALFPIPE

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B.C. snowboarder Ross Rebagliati preferred his pipe full, but it’s the halfpipe event that delivers an adrenalin surge.

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Canadian freeskier Sarah Burke died while training on a pipe course in Utah in 2012.

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The U.S. has won 24 snowboard medals — 10 gold — since the first snowboard events were featured at the 1998 Olympics. 4

Canada’s Jasey-Jay Anderson, 42, became the oldest snowboarder to win an FIS Snowboard World Cup event, taking the parallel giant slalom race in Bulgaria in late January. 5

James Bond (Roger Moore) boosted the sport with his jaunt down the hill in A View to a Kill in 1985. Stunt double Tom Sims, a former world snowboard champion, performed the real boarding manoeuvres.

SEAN M. HAFFEY/GETTY IMAGES Maddie Mastro competes in the ladies’ snowboard halfpipe at an event in Mammoth, Calif., in January.