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Ready for a Trip to the 'Park? Snowboarding Set for Its Spotlight at the Winter Olympics

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The Associated Press

10:16 JST, January 9, 2026

The origins of snowboarding go back to Christmas Day 1965 when an engineer named Sherman Poppen strapped two skis together to give his daughters something to do. He called it a “snurfer” and started selling them the next year.

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