8/23/2023 0 Comments Julia marino![]() "For those who don't know, the base of the board is important for your speed and not meant to have anything on it but wax, having marker and other things on the bottom basically defeats the purpose," the Westport, Connecticut, native wrote. Marino took silver in the women’s snowboard slopestyle, winning Team USA’s first medal at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Marino shared a picture of her altered snowboard on Instagram, claiming that the red marker used to draw over the Prada logo on the base of her board impacted the board's speed and performance. Bay Area Nearly 11,000 miles between Beijing and Westport, Conn., wasn’t going to stop Julia Marino from celebrating her silver medal with her family. MEDAL COUNT: How each country is performing at the Winter Games ![]() OLYMPICS NEWSLETTER: All of our coverage straight to your inbox TEXT ALERTS: Sign up for behind-the-scenes access from our reporters on the ground TV SCHEDULE: What and how to watch Olympics Tuesday night and Wednesday morning Marino was required to cover the logo on her helmet during slopestyle last week, and the IOC notified her that she would now have to do the same for her snowboard for Monday's big air qualifier. "For everyone asking, the night before the big air (competition), the IOC told me they no longer approved my board even (though) they approved it for slope," Marino, 24, wrote on her Instagram Story on Monday. "They told me I would be disqualified if I didn’t cover the logo and obligated me to literally draw on the base of my board with a sharpie."Īccording to NBC, Marino said the IOC informed her that her Prada sponsored board violated "Rule 40," which regulates athlete's sponsorships. Marino revealed on Instagram that the International Olympic Committee required her to cover the Prada logo on her snowboard – the same red-and-white board she used to claim silver in the snowboard slopestyle on Feb. Snowboarder Julia Marino is opening up about why she suddenly withdrew from the big air qualifier after earning Team USA's first Olympic medal of the Beijing Games a week earlier.
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