Police are asking for the public’s help to find a missing 14 year old boy. Hoin Kwon, also known as Alex, was last seen on Monday afternoon near Yonge and Finch. He’s been known to hang out at internet cafes. He is described as 5′7″, 130 pounds, with dyed blonde hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a multicoloured shirt and black slippers. Police are concerned for h…
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The snowboard pants worn by the U.S. team at the Vancouver Olympics were based on one of designer Greg Dacyshyn’s favorite jeans . The creative director of Burton Snowboards says the jeans were printed onto high-tech Gore-Tex fabric using a process called photo-sublimation.
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Olympic Snowboard Pants Inspired By Jeans
These Games weren’t perfect by any stretch, but the host nation provided plenty of memorable moments.
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Winners and losers: Canadians steal the show (Yahoo! Sports via Yahoo! Sports)
Did you see what we saw? Last week, American snowboarder Shaun White soared and spun his way to a gold medal in the Vancouver Olympics. And unless our eyes are playing tricks on us, he did it in blue jeans!
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For American Olympic snowboarders, blue jeans are golden (The Kansas City Star)
Midway through the middle game of Sunday’s historic hockey tripleheader, the television screen showed National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman in blue jeans schmoozing…
More here: Joe Lapointe: Olympic Hockey Heaven (The Huffington Post)
Dude, check out the threads. The U.S. Snowboarding Team has been turning heads on Cypress Mountain, and not just with its ability to get on the medal stand. The blue Ski jeans the team unveiled for the games have given the sometimes stodgy Olympics – OK, except for maybe you Johnny Weir – a hip makeover. “Snowboarding is the cool factor; that’s what the sport is all about, so why not embellish …
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US snowboaders’ race jeans turning heads (Vail Daily)
Dude, check out the threads. The U.S. Snowboarding Team has been turning heads on Cypress Mountain, and not just with its ability to get on the medal stand. The blue Ski jeans the team unveiled for the games have been turning heads given the sometimes stodgy Olympics – OK, except for maybe you Johnny Weir – a hip makeover. “Snowboarding is the cool factor; that’s what the sport is all about, so …
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Who’re those guys on the hill in jeans? It’s the U.S. Snowboarding Team (Summit Daily News)
VANCOUVER, Feb 16 — Seth Wescott made a huge comeback on the final jump to defend his Olympic snowboard cross gold yesterday, leaving another Canadian to settle for second best against an ice-cool American rival. The American, who was wearing ultra-cool loose snowboard trousers designed to look like well-worn blue jeans, pumped his arm after crossing the finish line in a near photo finish just …
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Snowboarding: Bullet in blue jeans zips to gold (The Malaysian Insider)
As Katarina Witt took the ice in blue jeans and a brown jacket, Elizabeth Manley playfully sank to her knees and did several “I’m Not Worthy” bows in the direction of her former rival.
Continue here: Witt, Manley hold on-ice reunion in Vancouver (AP via Yahoo! News)
BY SARA KEDDY Kings County Register Tough Jeans isn’t doing so well. The 17-month-old horse is recovering from a gunshot wound to the neck after suspected hunters shot and killed a companion horse in a pasture in South Maitland Nov…
Continue here: Slow recovery for horse shot by ?hunters’ (The Hants Journal)