Check out a new vid from Peep Show featuring HCSC antics with the riding (and in some cases dancing) of Laura Hadar, Marie Hucal, Page Rainear, Colleen Quigley, Alex Cantin, Darrell Mathes, Mike Hakker, Justin Bennee, Jake Kuzyk, Gabby Maiden, Darrah Reid-Mclean, Celia Miller, Terra Michilot, Esthera Preda, June Bhongjan, and Jess Kimura. Filmed by Pat Barazza

PMS 3 - HCSC from peepshow on Vimeo.

One of the many perks of winning a gold medal for Australia at the Olympics, is getting your own stamp. Torah Bright, who won the gold medal in Women's Halfpipe at the recent Olympic Games in Vancouver has shown up on an Australian 55 cent stamp (equivalent of about 51 cents in Canada), Bright told press that she was going to take hers "straight to the pool room." I guess that's where she writes her letters?

Maëlle Ricker, the Canadian Olympic Gold medalist in Snowboardcross, and 38 other Winter Olympians from around the world are featured in an online round up by Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com). The list includs freestyle skiier and Silver medalist from Canada Jennifer Heil, Australia's Halfpipe Gold medalist Torah Bright and plenty of non-medal competitors in both Halfpipe and Snowboardcross from as well.

Vanity Fair asked Ricker about her new-found fame in Canada, to which she said: “It’s been completely nuts, but positive nuts. Everybody’s been crazy supportive. I was so prepared for racing and race day, but then everything after—I’ve just been on cloud nine hovering around the city and meeting and greeting people. Everyone coming up to say congrats.”

Photo via www.vanityfairmag.com

Read all the profiles here, our fave has to be figure skater Johnny Weir. Two words: boy paint.

By Siofan Davies

Hometeam advantage rarely counts in halfpipe, especially Olympic competition, still, proud Canadians that we are we had high hopes for Sarah Conrad, Mercedes Nicoll and Olympic rookie Palmer Taylor. Yet, rather than focus on the podium (I know, I know, that’s who gets the medals, there’s no participation medal), when compared to Torino four years ago, Canada is definitely moving up in Olympic Halfpipe standing.

At the 2006 Olympic Games, Conrad had our best finish of 15th place, with Nicolls at 27th, neither making it to finals. (If you don’t remember, the third member of the Women’s halfpipe team was this year’s snowboard cross winner Maëlle Ricker, she placed 23rd in Torino.)

Nicoll, 26, was the only Canadian woman to make it into the finals this year, based on the strength of some impressive spins in the semifinals. However, once she came into the finals, her 540s and 720s would not be enough for a podium finish, when pitted against the height and style of Torah Bright doing similar spins or Kelly Clark’s 900. However, with her sixth place standing, she still gave her hometown something to cheer about, and Canada it’s second-best ever placing in Women’s pipe at the Olympics (Ricker got 5th at Nagano in 1998).

Conrad had a strong second run in qualifiers, advancing her to semis but in both her runs she ran into problems, first with her backside 7, and then in a second run she was smooth until she went down at the end attempting a 9. But at only 24, Conrad certainly has another Olympics in her should she choose to continue to make pipe her focus.

What will really be interesting to see is the growth that 17-year-old Palmer Taylor goes through in the next four years. Bright’s poor placing at Torino was the driving force in her training for Vancouver, and now that Taylor has had a taste for Olympic competition, she can use this in her training. While she came in 26th place, the next four years could make a huge difference in where she stands in Russia in 2014.

While the women get pumped to take their Olympic halfpipe runs in Vancouver, you may be wondering what 2006 Olympic halfpipe gold medalist Hannah Teter is up to. Well we might not have a lock on her personal life but we're sure plenty of boys would like to know after oggling her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue photos. While we haven't seen the magazine yet, there are 45 pictures at sportsillustrated.com

Here is a sample....

Perfect for hiking the pipe.

This is what we put on when we're bumming around after riding, too.