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The halfpipe contests were held in the wake of a positive marijuana test by giant slalom winner Ross Rebagliati that swamped the sport in controversy while reinforcing stereotypes that gave fuel to critics who felt snowboarding wasn't quite a “real” sport. It started at the sport's Olympic debut in Nagano in 1998, when the word “snowboarding” was misspelled on the scoreboard at the venue - “Snow-Bording.” The riders were placed on a rain-soaked halfpipe that made good performances almost impossible. “When you really think about it, we've always been oil and water with the Olympics,” said Donna Burton Carpenter, whose late husband, Jake, invented the modern-day snowboard and got it accepted at resorts across the globe. Ski and Snowboard Association, all of which have benefitted by bringing snowboarding into the mainstream. They expressed similar feelings about the IOC, the Switzerland-based International Ski Federation (FIS) - which runs snowboarding at the Olympics - and the U.S. That lack of faith was repeated in multiple interviews the AP conducted with riders and top industry executives in the lead-up to the Beijing Games, which start next week. “And they really didn’t give the riders any faith.” “Even if I was lucky to land a run, I think that was a really, really terrible call,” Anderson said in an Associated Press interview earlier this winter, reflecting on a winning trip down the course that included watered-down tricks that hadn't been part of winning slopestyle runs for a decade or more.