Todd Richards (snowboarder)
Todd Richards is a snowboarder from Paxton, M*achusetts. Richards helped introduce "skate style" at a time when the sport was mainly influenced by alpine racing events. Richards grew up skateboarding on the East Coast and translated his skills on four wheels to riding a halfpipe made of snow.
During his career, Richards won multiple US Open halfpipe *les, X Games gold medals, and World Championship firsts. He was a member of the 1998 US Olympic Halfpipe Team in Nagano. In 2003, Richards published an autobiography *led P3: Parks, Pipes, and Powder. He has done color commentary for NBC's coverage of the Torino, Vancouver, Sochi, Pyeongchang, and Beijing Olympic Games and has produced a series of webisodes en*led "Todcasts for Quiksilver."
Richards is the subject of a do*entary en*led "Me, Myself and I" that was released in 2009.
Actor
He played a former professional snowboarder in the 2001 movie Out Cold.
References
External links
- Athlete Bios: Snowboard Halfpipe
- Todd Richards on Snowboard Videos