U.S. Olympic Snowboarding

The U.S. has pretty much dominated all the snowboarding events at this year's Winter Olympics. As of yesterday, we've won 50% of ALL the snowboarding medals. Now I don't claim to be an Olympic expert - but perhaps our dominance can be traced back to the fact that we freakin' invented the sport.

China - a country of 1.3 billion people and a perennial athletic powerhouse - does not have a single snowboard athlete. Maybe it's because snowboards are too expensive there, or maybe it's because the government doesn't provide funding - but I'm guessing it's because there are no halfpipes in China.

Since we've started to add events that involve halfpipes to the Olympics, we might as well incorporate the entire X-Games. Team USA would kick so much ass. I'd kill to see a Bulgarian on a BMX bike, or a Nigerian on a skateboard doing a nollie flip 540. Hell - let's take the Americanization of the Olympics to the limit and add gun violence as an event.