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Winter Games 2011

2009 saw the inaugural Winter Games event held at venues in Wanaka, Queenstown and a number of other South Island towns in New Zealand. With events including skiing and snowboarding, curling, cross-country skiing, ice skating and ice hockey it attracted a number of huge names in the sports, many of whom went on to win medals in the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

We were lucky enough to see many of the events in 2009 and what a show the athletes put on. Of course being a snowboarder, the highlight had to be the half-pipe competition at Cardrona where we were absolutely stoked to see the lik...

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Posted By: Angela Schrider, @ Mon, 17th Jan 2011  View comments (0)  Add a comment

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