...bronze medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics and won the halfpipe at last year's X-Games. Teammates Kelly Clark and Tricia Byrnes also give the USA a good shot at a medal. Todd Lodwick and Bill Demong leaped steady and long in the ski-jumping...

...of the year. "After it's all said and done, we're still all friends with those guys," says American rider Tricia Byrnes. "The Olympic thing just isn't their take. There is a core side of snowboarding, and they're not doing the...