Freestyle Snowboarding is an Olympic sport. Snowboarding is only in the winter Olympics, which run every 4 years, the last year the Olympics ran was 2012.
The newest winter olympic sport is called snowboard cross(snowboard X). It was first considered an olympic event in Torino, 2006.
Snowboard Cross
2006
wrestling
Snowboarding was not an Olympic sport until 1998.
Freestyle swimming has been an event in the Modern Olympic Games since their inception in 1896. Freestyle events at the 1896 Games went 100 meters, 500 meters, and 1200 meters.
A freestyle snowboard is a snowboard used while on a free style course. It is a board that is used to do tricks and "jibs" on a wide array of manmade terrain features such as rails, boxes and jumps.
snowboard cross is the sport introduced at the winter Olympics 2010
snowboard Cross is the newest Winter Olympic sport. Added just this year to the 2010 games.
An all mountain snowboard is a snowboard that can ride in deep pow, in terrain parks, and just riding reguraly. A freestyle snowboard is a snowboard that you can only ride in terrain parks.
The height of a snowboard depends on you're height, for a freestyle snowboard you want it to be somewhere in between you chin and nose.
It is called that because its a cross between freestyle and racing. It is a downhill race that involves jumps, therefor making it snowboard cross