[DOC] [TLE] List of Olympic medalists in snowboarding - Wikipedia [PAR] Snowboarding is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games 
since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Snowboarding was one of 
five new sports or disciplines added to the Winter ... Five athletes have won two 
medals. ... In the men's half-pipe event, American snowboarders have collected 
six of... [DOC] [TLE] Ross Powers - Wikipedia [PAR] Bronze medal  third place, 1998 Nagano  Halfpipe  World Championships. 
Gold medal  first place, 1996 Lienz, Halfpipe. Winter X Games. Silver medal  
second place, 2011 Aspen, Best method. Ross Powers (born February 10, 1979), 
is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder ... He led the U.S. sweep 
in the 2002 Winter Olympics men's halfpipe... [DOC] [TLE] Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia [PAR] The snowboarding competition of the 1998 Winter Olympics was held at Mount 
Yakebitai and Kanbayashi Snowboard Park. The competition took place between 
February 8 and 12, 1998 and featured four events: Men's and Women's giant 
slalom and halfpipe. This was the first Olympic appearance of snowboarding. ... 
Rank, Nation, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Total. [DOC] [TLE] ESPN.com - Powers leads U.S. medals sweep in halfpipe [PAR] Danny Kass, Ross Powers and J.J. Thomas led the American's first Winter medal 
... the United States its first medals sweep in the Winter Olympics in 46 years. ... 
on the halfpipe, soaring into the sunshine for an unforgettable Olympic moment. 
... and it was topped by Powers, who adds gold to the bronze medal he won in... [DOC] [TLE] Ross Powers Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference ... [PAR] Ross Powers won a bronze medal in 1998 in halfpipe, which was somewhat of 
an upset. ... Prix at Mount Bachelor, but he just missed making the 2006 US 
Winter Olympic Team. ... Games, Age, City, Sport, Event, Team, NOC, Rank, 
Medal... [DOC] [TLE] Snowboarding at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games - Sports Reference [PAR] Support us without the ads? Go Ad-Free. Snowboarding at the 1998 Nagano 
Winter Games ... the resorts found the snowboarders to be an excellent source of 
new revenue. ... were six events contested: slalom, giant slalom, parallel slalom, 
halfpipe, ... The sport was not added to the Olympic Program without controversy. [DOC] [TLE] Snowboarding enters Winter Olympics [PAR] When snowboarding finally entered the Winter Olympics in 1998, it was after ... 
and Steamboat Springs native Shannon Dunn took bronze in the halfpipe events, 
with ... reported that the U.S. snowboarding coaches didn't actually snowboard. 
Additionally, after Canada's Ross Rebagliati won the first gold medal in the giant. [DOC] [TLE] Relighting the fire within Day 3: Ross Powers leads U.S. Sweep ... [PAR] Feb 10, 2012 ... Relighting the fire within Day 3: Ross Powers leads U.S. Sweep, puts ... swept the 
medals in the men's halfpipe at the 2002 Winter Olympics. ... 2002 Winter Games 
in conjunction with the event's 10-year anniversary. ... He won bronze in Nagano 
in 1998 in the first Winter Games that included snowboarding. [DOC] [TLE] Press Releases - Press Releases - Ralph Lauren Investor Relations [PAR] Polo Ralph Lauren Congratulates RLX Polo Sport Team Rider Ross Powers on 
... secure the Olympic gold and lead an American sweep of medals in the men's 
halfpipe ... history by being the first U.S. podium sweep since the 1958 winter 
games. ... having won a bronze at the Nagano Olympics in 1998, Olympic medals
, the... [DOC] [TLE] Ross Powers - Team USA [PAR] 2002: Olympic gold medalist in halfpipe; 1998: Olympic bronze medalist in ... 
Olympic Winter Games and a 1998 Olympic bronze medal, Ross Powers has ... 
Powers decided to take on the sport, a departure from his halfpipe history, and ... 
world having won almost every title in snowboarding, including Olympic gold in 
2002. [DOC] [TLE] 14 Need To Knows: Snowboarding - Team USA [PAR] Feb 4, 2014 ... A GROWING SPORT ... At the Sochi 2014 Olympic

Question: At the 1998 Winter Olympics, the USA's Ross Powers won the bronze in the halfpipe event in this new Olympic sport
Answer: Snowboarding