New events at Beijing Olympics push extreme sports limits, promote gender equity
BEIJING â Big air lived up to its name in Pyeongchang. Organizers built the world's biggest big air ramp for the 2018 Games in South Korea, where snowboarders got the first crack at bringing the heart-stopping X Games favorite to the Olympics. They twisted through the air like spinning tops and flipped as if gravity no longer applied. Fans packed the stands alongside the skyscraping structure.
Skier Maggie Voisin looked at the snowboarders ripping down the 160-foot-tall ramp and felt a tinge of jealousy. That, she thought to herself wistfully,
