Gretchen Elisabeth Bleiler (born April 10, 1981) is an American former professional halfpipe snowboarder . She won a silver medal at the 2006 Olympics.
46-608: Bleiler is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include: E. F. Bleiler (1920–2010), American editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction and fantasy Gretchen Bleiler (born 1981), American professional halfpipe snowboarder Richard Bleiler (born 1959), American bibliographer in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, crime, and adventure fiction See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Bleiler Bleier Bleyer [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
92-418: A Crippler 540 in competition, and won more halfpipe competitions in 2003, 2005 and 2006 than any other female snowboarder. In the pre-Olympic season she won four of the five US Olympic halfpipe qualifiers and is also a four-time X Games gold medalist, most recently winning the superpipe at Winter X Games XIV . In 2003, she was a U.S. snowboard Grand Prix champion, a U.S. Open of snowboarding champion, and
138-658: A Triple Crown of Snowboarding champion. She posed for the February 2004 issue of FHM , along with fellow snowboarder Tara Dakides and sportscaster Jamie Little . Bleiler, who missed qualifying for the 2002 Winter Olympics due to a tiebreaker, won a silver medal in the women's halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy. Starting in 2007, Bleiler expanded her career into snowboard and outerwear design, through Oakley and K2 Snowboarding , designing her own signature outerwear line for Oakley, and participating in
184-504: A humid subtropical climate , Sochi is the warmest city to host a Winter Olympic Games. Sochi 2014 is the 12th straight Olympics to outlaw smoking; all Sochi venues, Olympic Park bars and restaurants and public areas were smoke-free during the Games. It is also the first time that an Olympic Park has been built for hosting winter games. The Sochi Olympic Park was built by the Black Sea coast in
230-651: A fifth of that budget ($ 10.8 billion) was directly related to the Olympic games, while the rest went into urban and regional regeneration and the conversion of the Sochi region into an all-year round sea and alpine resort. The breakdown table below is based on a report that has analyzed the distribution of Olimpstroy's $ 49.5 billion budget. Estimates also suggest that additional unrecoverable operational costs (including for security) could have added another $ 3 billion. With an average February temperature of 8.3 °C (46.9 °F) and
276-571: Is an owner of ALEX Bottle (which stands for "Always Live EXtraordinarily") with her husband Chris. Bleiler enjoys surfing, mountain biking, interior design and fashion. She is also active in several environmental organizations, including the Aspen Snomass Save Snow campaign, and stopglobalwarming.org. She lives in Aspen, Colorado and is married to Chris Hotell. 2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics , officially called
322-508: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Gretchen Bleiler Born in Toledo, Ohio , Bleiler aspired to compete in the Winter X Games from a very young age, and found her passion in snowboarding at age 11 (1992). She has been riding ever since and became professional in 1996. Among her accomplishments, she jump-started the invert revolution for female riders as the first to land
368-598: Is located between Adler and Krasnaya Polyana connecting the Olympic Park, Sochi International Airport , and the venues in Krasnaya Polyana. The existing 102 km (63-mile), Tuapse-to-Adler railroad was renovated to provide double track throughout, increasing capacity and enabling a reliable regional service to be provided and extending to the airport. In December 2009, Russian Railways ordered 38 Siemens Mobility Desiro trains for delivery in 2013 for use during
414-475: Is located near Akhshtyr in Adlersky City District, and includes: Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin stated the road construction costed more than 200 billion rubles. In addition, Sochi's railway stations were renovated. These are Dagomys , Sochi , Matsesta , Khosta , Lazarevskaya , and Loo railway stations. In Adler, a new railway station was built while the original building
460-547: The 2018 FIFA World Cup . A new ice hockey team in the Kontinental Hockey League , HC Sochi Leopards , now plays in Bolshoy Arena. The Olympic infrastructure was constructed according to a Federal Target Program (FTP). In June 2009, the Games' organizers reported they were one year ahead in building the main Olympic facilities as compared to recent Olympic Games. In November 2011, IOC President Jacques Rogge
506-524: The Imeretinsky Valley , about 4 km (2.5 miles) from Russia's border with Abkhazia / Georgia . The venues were clustered around a central water basin on which the Medals Plaza is built, allowing all indoor venues to be within walking distance. It also features "The Waters of the Olympic Park" (designed by California -based company WET ), a choreographed fountain which served as the backdrop in
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#1733092395372552-649: The Olympic flag during the opening ceremony, as India was originally suspended in December 2012 over the election process of the Indian Olympic Association . On 11 February, the Indian Olympic Association was reinstated and India's athletes were allowed the option to compete under their own flag from that time onward. Although Shiva Keshavan competed as an Independent athlete and is recorded as such, he
598-549: The XXII Olympic Winter Games ( Russian : XXII Олимпийские зимние игры , romanized : XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry ) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 ( Russian : Сочи 2014 ), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi , Russia. Opening rounds in certain events were held on 6 February 2014, the day before the opening ceremony . These were
644-757: The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic previously hosted the Summer Olympics in 1980 . A record ninety-eight events in fifteen winter sport disciplines were held during the Games. A number of new competitions—a total of twelve accounting for gender—were held during the Games, including biathlon mixed relay, women's ski jumping , mixed-team figure skating , mixed-team luge , half-pipe skiing, ski and snowboard slopestyle , and snowboard parallel slalom . The events were held around two clusters of new venues: an Olympic Park constructed in Sochi's Imeretinsky Valley on
690-411: The surname Bleiler . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleiler&oldid=1136541667 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
736-557: The 2014 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February 2014 at Fisht Olympic Stadium , an indoor arena built specifically for the ceremonies. The ceremony featured scenes based around aspects of Russian history and arts, including ballet , classical music , the Russian Revolution , and the age of the Soviet Union . The opening scene of the ceremony featured a notable technical error, where one of five snowflakes, which were to expand to form
782-605: The K2 Alliance, which develops and tests women's products, as well as working on the graphics for several K2 Boards. In 2008, she helped to create a new all-female invitational superpipe competition at Snowmass called the Snow Angels Invitational. While competing in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics , many considered Bleiler a gold medal favorite. However, she fell on both of her final runs, and took 11th place. During
828-453: The Olympic rings, malfunctioned and did not expand (a mishap mocked by the organizers at the closing ceremony where one of the roundrelay dance groups symbolizing the Olympic rings "failed" to expand). The torch was taken into the stadium by Maria Sharapova , who then passed it to Yelena Isinbayeva who, in turn, passed it to wrestler Aleksandr Karelin . Karelin then passed the torch to gymnast Alina Kabaeva . Figure skater Irina Rodnina took
874-599: The Olympics, with an option for a further 16 partly built in Russia. At Sochi International Airport , a new terminal was built along a 3.5 km (2.2-mile) runway extension, overlapping the Mzymta River . At the Port of Sochi , a new offshore terminal 1.5 km (0.93 mi) from the shore allows docking for cruise ships with capacities of 3,000 passengers. The cargo terminal of
920-596: The Olympics. In November 2013, it was reported that the fiber-optic cable that was built by the Federal Communications Agency , Rossvyaz, had no operator. With Rostelecom and Megafon both refusing to operate it, the line was transferred to the ownership of the state enterprise Center for Monitoring & Development of Infocommunication Technologies (Russian: Центр МИР ИТ ). Russian mobile phone operator Megafon expanded and improved Sochi's telecom infrastructure with over 700 new 2G/3G/4G cell towers. Sochi
966-456: The cities of Tuapse and Novorossiysk and construction of a cable-wire powerline, partially on the floor of the Black Sea . The transport infrastructure prepared to support the Olympics includes many roads, tunnels, bridges, interchanges, railroads and stations in and around Sochi. Among others, 8 flyovers, 102 bridges, tens of tunnels and a bypass route for heavy trucks – 367 km (228 mi) of roads were paved. The Sochi Light Metro
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#17330923953721012-423: The coast of the Black Sea , with Fisht Olympic Stadium , and the Games' indoor venues located within walking distance; and snow events in the resort settlement of Krasnaya Polyana . The 2014 Winter Olympics were the most expensive Games in the history of the Olympics. While originally budgeted at US$ 12 billion, major cost overruns caused this figure to expand to US$ 51 billion, more than three times
1058-662: The cost of the 2012 London Olympics and even surpassing the estimated cost of US$ 44 billion for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The 2014 Games achieved a record broadcast audience of 2.1 billion people worldwide. In 2016, an independent report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed allegations that the Russian Olympic team had been involved in a state-sponsored doping program , active from at least late 2011 through August 2015. The program
1104-489: The day of the opening ceremony, 7 February 2014. It is the longest torch relay in Olympic history, a 60,000-kilometre (40,000-mile) route that passes through all regions of the country, from Kaliningrad in the west to Chukotka in the east. The Olympic torch reached the North Pole for first time via a nuclear-powered icebreaker ( 50 Let Pobedy ) . The torch was also passed for the first time in space , though not lit for
1150-622: The duration of the flight for safety reasons, on flight Soyuz TMA-11M to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft itself was adorned with Olympic-themed livery including the Games' emblem. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky waved the torch on a spacewalk outside the ISS. The torch returned to Earth five days later on board Soyuz TMA-09M . The torch also reached Europe's highest mountain, Mount Elbrus , and Siberia's Lake Baikal . The opening ceremony of
1196-537: The estimated $ 44 billion cost of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, which hosted 3 times as many events. Dmitry Kozak was the main overseer for the events in Sochi. In its final budget published in June 2014, Olimpstroy—the state corporation that oversaw the Sochi Olympics development—reported the total allocated funds for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics of 1,524 billion rubles (US$ 49.5 billion). However, only about
1242-489: The estimated combined cost of the 2014 Winter Olympics had topped US$ 51 billion. This amount included the cost for Olympic games themselves and cost of Sochi infrastructural projects (roads, railroads, power plants). This total is over four times the initial budget of $ 12 billion (compared to the $ 8 billion spent for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver), and made the Sochi games the most expensive Olympics in history, exceeding
1288-722: The first Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency of Thomas Bach . Both the Olympics and Paralympics were organized by the Sochi Organizing Committee (SOOC). Sochi was selected as the host city in July 2007, during the 119th IOC Session held in Guatemala City . It was the first Olympics to be held in a CIS state and former Warsaw Pact state after the Revolutions of 1989 and
1334-682: The first time ever, all of the current members of the European Olympic Committees participated at the Winter Olympics. Kristina Krone qualified to compete in her second consecutive games for Puerto Rico , but the island's Olympic Committee once again chose not to send her to compete. Similarly, South Africa decided not to send alpine skier Sive Speelman to Sochi. Algeria also did not enter its only qualified athlete, Mehdi-Selim Khelifi . India 's athletes originally competed as Independent Olympic Participants and marched under
1380-529: The largest Winter Olympics to date. Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each separate discipline. On 6 April 2011, the IOC accepted a number of events that were submitted by their respective sports federations to be considered for inclusion into the official program of these Olympic Games. The events included a Figure skating team event, Women's ski jumping, Mixed relay biathlon, Ski half-pipe , and Team relay luge. On 4 July 2011,
1426-523: The main media centre in Olympic Park and in the mountain village of Estosadok . In addition to standard services, customers had access to unique services including two new products, Fotomarka and Retropismo. Fotomarka presents an opportunity to get a stylised sheet of eight souvenir stamps with one's own photos, using the services of a photographer in the office. Retropismo service allows a customer to write with their own stylus or pen on antique paper with further letters, winding string and wax seal affixing. All
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1472-612: The medals awards and the opening and closing ceremonies of the event. The new venues include: A street circuit known as the Sochi Autodrom was constructed in and around Olympic Park. Its primary use is to host the Formula One Russian Grand Prix , which held its inaugural edition in October 2014. In January 2015, work began on adapting Fisht Olympic Stadium into an open-air football stadium to host matches during
1518-457: The new sites and post offices in Sochi were opened during the Olympics until late night 7 days a week, and employees were trained to speak English. On 29 September 2013, the Olympic torch was lit in Ancient Olympia , beginning a seven-day journey across Greece and on to Russia, then the torch relay started at Moscow on 7 October 2013 before passing 83 Russian cities and arriving at Sochi on
1564-431: The newest equipment for the television coverage of the Games arrived in the port of Adler . Prepared specifically for the Games, a team of regional specialists and the latest technology provide a qualitatively new level of television production in the region. The fiber-optic channel links Sochi between Adler and Krasnaya Polyana. The 46-kilometre-long (29 mi) channel enables videoconferencing and news reporting from
1610-591: The power supply of the Sochi region was presented by Russian energy experts during a seminar on 29 May 2009, held by the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, and attended by International Olympic Committee (IOC) experts and officials from the Russian Ministry of Regional Development , the Russian Ministry of Energy , the State Corporation Olimpstroy and the Krasnodar Krai administration. According to
1656-458: The seaport would be moved from the centre of Sochi. Roadways were detoured, some going around the construction site and others being cut off. In May 2009, Russian Railways started the construction of tunnel complex No. 1 (the final total is six) on the combined road (automobile and railway) from Adler to Alpica Service Mountain Resort in the Krasnaya Polyana region. The tunnel complex No. 1
1702-412: The strategy, the capacity of the regional energy network would increase by two and a half times by 2014, guaranteeing a stable power supply during and after the Games. The power demand of Sochi at the end of May 2009 was 424 MW. The power demand of the Olympic infrastructure was expected to be about 340 MW. Earlier plans also include building combined cycle (steam and gas) power stations near
1748-464: The summer, Gretchen Bleiler coaches and mentors youth at High Cascade Snowboard Camp. In 2008, 2010, and 2014 she was awarded a Signature Session at High Cascade. Bleiler announced her retirement in January 2014 after being injured in a 2012 training accident and failing to make the 2014 Winter Olympics team. She is currently pursuing speaking, writing, teaching, activism and being an entrepreneur; she
1794-455: The systems, and worked with other technology partners to provide athletes, dignitaries and fans information about the Games. The 2014 Olympics is the first "fabric-enabled" Games using Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) technology. The network is capable of handling up to 54 Tbit/s of traffic. Infrastructure built for the games included: During the Games, the core networks of Rostelecom and Transtelekom were used. In January 2012,
1840-658: The torch and was met by former ice hockey goalkeeper Vladislav Tretiak , who exited the stadium to jointly light the Olympic cauldron located near the center of Olympic Park. A record 88 nations qualified to compete, which beat the previous record of 82 set at the previous Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The number of athletes who qualified per country is listed in the table below (number of athletes shown in parentheses). Seven nations made their Winter Olympics debut: Dominica , Malta , Paraguay , Timor-Leste , Togo , Tonga , and Zimbabwe . The Winter debut of Malta meant that for
1886-532: Was active during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, and athletes had benefited from the cover-up . The IOC stripped thirteen medals from Russian athletes in 2017, but nine were reinstated by the Court of Arbitration for Sport . In December 2017, the IOC voted to suspend the Russian Olympic Committee , with an option for whitelisted athletes to compete independently during the 2018 Winter Olympics . Sochi
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1932-462: Was elected on 4 July 2007 during the 119th International Olympic Committee (IOC) session held in Guatemala City , Guatemala , defeating bids from Salzburg , Austria ; and Pyeongchang , South Korea. This is the first time that the Russian Federation has hosted the Winter Olympics. The Soviet Union was the host of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in and around Moscow. As of October 2013,
1978-657: Was in Sochi and concluded that the city had made significant progress since he last visited eighteen months earlier. According to the FTP, US$ 580 million would be spent on construction and modernization of telecommunications in the region. Avaya was named by the Sochi Organizing Committee as the official supplier of telecommunications equipment. Avaya provided the data network equipment, including switches , routers , security, telephones and contact-center systems . It provided engineers and technicians to design and test
2024-477: Was permitted to walk under the flag of India at the Closing Ceremony. During the Games some countries had a national house, a meeting place for supporters, athletes and other followers. Houses could be either free for visitors to access or have limited access by invitation only. The 2014 Winter Olympics featured 98 events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports. A total of twelve new events were contested, making it
2070-800: Was preserved, and in the Olympic park cluster, a new station was built from scratch, the Olympic Park railway station . Another new railway station was built in Estosadok, close to Krasnaya Polyana. Funds were spent on the construction of hotels for 10,300 guests. The first of the Olympic hotels, Zvezdny ( Stellar ), was rebuilt anew. Significant funds were spent on the construction of an advanced sewage treatment system in Sochi, designed by Olimpstroy. The system meets BREF standards and employs top available technologies for environment protection, including tertiary treatment with microfiltration . Six post offices were opened at competition venues, two of them in
2116-585: Was the first Games to offer 4G connectivity at a speed of 10 MB/sec. In January 2014, Rostelecom reported that it had connected the Olympic media center in Sochi to the Internet and organized channels of communication with the main media center of the Olympic Games in the coastal cluster and press center in Moscow. The media center was built at total cost of 17 million rubles. A five-year strategy for increasing
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