The Wall Street Journal has an article about the difficulties in judging Olympic halfpipe snowboarding. It talks about the early days, like the Nagano games, where judges were expected to be able to perform all the tricks they were judging, to now when sometimes judges are seeing a complicated trick for the first time in a run and having to score it immediately. Shaun White says this factored into him doing the double cork at the Burton Open in New Zealand because the judges could then be a little educated before the Olympics. Well worth a read – check it out here.

(Via Boardistan)