Freestyle Skier Grete Eliassen and six-time Winter X Games medalist grew up completely confident in her ability to soar and beat out the boys (resulting in a few bruised egos). Thankfully, the ...

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When Grete Eliassen was 11 years old, she’d run into her 12-year old brother’s room to count his skiing trophies, then run back to her room to ensure she had more. When she was 13, her parents moved ...

Grete Eliassen’s salmon-colored ski suit made her stand out during a snowy women’s superpipe competition Tuesday afternoon. But not as much as her amplitude. Eliassen, who lives in Utah and is a dual ...

This week, Adventure got a chance to chat with one of the best women’s freeskiers of the last decade, Grete Eliassen. What’s that? You’ve never heard of freeskiing? Sure you have, you just didn’t ...

Grete Eliassen, 27, slopestyleThis Minnesota native is vying to compete in the first ever slopestyle event at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. With four U.S. Open wins and six X Games medals, it’s no ...

Snowboarding may have started as a renegade sport, but in the terrain park it was always the ruling class. Now 27, U.S. Red Bull athlete and U.S. team freeskier Grete Eliassen remembers it well. “When ...

ASPEN ” For five years, women freeskiers Sarah Burke and Kristi Leskinen have traveled with the men, forerun events and pushed competition promoters to let them have their chance. On Tuesday, the ...

"I'm not sure if you've seen a hockey player run. It's brutal," Olympian Hilary Knight says. But the U.S. women's national team forward will also be the first to admit how important cardio training is ...

What happens when three U.S. athletes preparing for the Sochi Olympics wear a FitBit for a week? The results say a lot about how exhausting it is to train for the Olympics, compared with, say, being a ...