Likely because it is a popular and challenging winter sport with a large following.
Snowboarding will be part of the 2014 winter Olympics
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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.
Yes, it is in the winter Olympics. The events are called snowboard Cross, half pipe, and slalom.
Enni Rukajärvi from Finland won the silver medal in Women's Snowboarding slopestyle at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
1998, same time as mens.
Jamie Anderson from the United States won the gold medal in Women's Snowboarding slopestyle at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.