Sport Which was First Featured in the Winter Olympics in 1998

Sport which was first featured in the Winter Olympics in 1998. 12 letters. The £1,500 prize crossword at Daily Mail on Sunday June 4, 2017. There’s an amazing £1,500 prize for the first correct solution drawn at random in our general knowledge Prize Crossword. Entries must arrive by Friday, June 9 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, June 25

The answer is SNOWBOARDING

Snowboarding is a recreational activity and Olympic and Paralympic sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope while standing on a snowboard attached to a rider’s feet.

The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the United States in the 1960s, became a Winter Olympic Sport at Nagano in 1998 and first featured in the Winter Paralympics at Sochi in 2014. Its popularity (as measured by equipment sales) in the United States peaked in 2007 and has been in a decline since.