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In 1994, the International Olympic committee approved snowboarding as an Olympic event. It made its debut in 1998 at the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. No doubt this approval was due to the hugely growing popularity of the sport all over the world since the 1960s. In fact, during the middles of the 1980s, fewer than 10% of all ski areas in the United States allowed snowboarding. In 2010, it is allowed in more than 95% of them. . . . → Read More: An Introduction To The World Of Snowboarding

Visitors to the Winter Olympics in Nagano Japan in 1998 were witnesses to the debut of snowboarding as an Olympic sport, it having been approved as such in 1994 by the International Olympic Committee. It is not surprising that it reached the world’s largest sports stage. Since the mid 1960s, an ever increasing number of snowboarders have taken to ski slopes around the world. Its popularity as a winter sport is perhaps best understood if you consider that in the mid 1980s snowboarding was allowed on less than ten percent of the ski areas in the United States; today it is permitted on over ninety-five percent. . . . → Read More: A Brief Look At Snowboarding