She also has a secret ally on the slopes-Sir Isaac Newton. She's been snowboarding since she was 9 and competing since age 11. What makes 23-year-old Olson so good on her board? Experience, for one. Olympic snowboarding team, to compete in February's 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Now she's training for a spot on the U.S. Last August, she launched her own snowboard company-Chorus-the first ever to exclusively design snowboards for women.
In January 2000, she nabbed first-place competing at the world's largest extreme sports championship, the Winter X Games. 'It feels so natural and it's fun,' says the Bend, Oregon, native. Leslee Olson's idea of a good time is to strap herself onto a snowboard and rocket down a snow-caked mountain at speeds over 73 kilometers (45 miles per hour). (Physical Science: Newton's Law of Motion). (Physical Science: Newton's Law of Motion).' Retrieved from (Physical+Science%3a+Newton%27s+Law+of+Motion).-a082554145 (Physical Science: Newton's Law of Motion).' The Free Library.
