{"id":804508,"date":"2020-02-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379425"},"modified":"2020-02-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T02:00:00","slug":"peak-performers-todd-richards-snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/peak-performers-todd-richards-snowboarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Performers: Todd Richards, snowboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/ToddRichardsQA-SDN-041915.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/ToddRichardsQA-SDN-041915.jpg 325w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/ToddRichardsQA-SDN-041915-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\"><figcaption><strong>Todd Richards, former professional snowboarder and longtime Breckenridge local.<\/strong><br \/><em>NBC Sports \/ Special to The Daily<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: Readers nominated their all-time favorite Summit County athletes for Peak Performers: The Mount Rushmore of Summit County athletes. Voting is now live at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/summitdaily.com\/peakperformers\">SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nominee<\/strong>: Todd Richards<br \/><strong>Sport<\/strong>: Snowboarding<\/p>\n<p>The face of snowboarding in his prime, longtime Breckenridge local Todd Richards goes down in history as one of the most important figures in the sport\u2019s evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Richards, a Massachusetts native, found his way to Breckenridge\u2019s legendary halfpipe scene in the early \u201990s after the avid skateboarder honed his craft on the Stratton Mountain pipe in Vermont. Based out of Breckenridge like so many pros a quarter century ago, Richards won more than a dozen medals at the Grand Prix, X Games and Burton U.S. Open as one of the most prolific of \u201990s riders.<\/p>\n<p>Though he didn\u2019t finish as well as he would have liked, Richards was a main player on the U.S.\u2019s inaugural Olympic snowboard team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. More importantly, he\u2019ll go down in history as one of the snowboarders who progressed the sport from its Alpine race roots to more a skate style, which pervades the sport and snowboarding community to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Since his contest days concluded, Richards has remained one of the most recognizable faces and voices in snowboarding thanks to his work as a television broadcaster for NBC Sports, including at several Olympics.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/peak-performers-todd-richards-snowboarding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Richards, former professional snowboarder and longtime Breckenridge local.NBC Sports \/ Special to The Daily Editor\u2019s note: Readers nominated their all-time favorite Summit County athletes for Peak Performers: The Mount Rushmore of Summit County athletes. Voting is now live at&nbsp;SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers. Nominee: Todd RichardsSport: Snowboarding The face of snowboarding in his prime, longtime Breckenridge local Todd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 22:26:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}