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Rome Reports on Marie-France Roy's Neck Injury

by Lorene Voskinarian : April 23, 2010 - 09:57 : : 0 comments

We recently told you about Marie-France Roy breaking her C2 vertabrae while filming in the Whistler backcountry. Now we finally have some updates thanks to an interview the Rome team manager did with MFR.

MFR describes how she got injured:

Marie-France Roy Breaks Neck

by Lorene Voskinarian : March 29, 2010 - 20:53 : : 0 comments

We just saw a tweet from Marie-France Roy stating that she broke her neck but that she'll be ok.  From what we've been able to discover, MFR was injured while riding in the Whistler backcountry and broke her C2 vertebrae. We'll update when we find out more.

Powderroom.net wishes Marie-France a full and speedy recovery!

 

Catch Rome's Twitter Interview with Marie-France Roy on Friday and Win Bindings

by Lorene Voskinarian : October 13, 2009 - 21:52 : : 0 comments

Marie-France Roy will be the latest target of the Rome SDS Ask the Rider Twitter Interview on Friday, October 16.  You'll get a chance to ask MFR whatever you want for 2 hours.  Rome will be giving away a pair of Strut or United bindings to one lucky tweeter.

You can ask whatever you want.  Here are some sample questions from Rome to get you started... How was filming the Team Shoot Out? How was filming with Absinthe this past season? Any good stories from your recent trip to Japan? Would you consider dating a guy that isn’t as good as you at snowboarding (also known as 99.99% of the male snowboarding population)?

Rome's Top 5 with MFR

by Lorene Voskinarian : September 3, 2009 - 08:18 : : 0 comments

Rome has just released a Top 5 with their pro rider Marie-France Roy. Check it out.

MFR

It takes different strokes to move the world. People like different things; that’s why if you Google "Best Movie" you get 159 million results instead of one. The Never Ending Story tops MFR’s list of the greatest film of all time. Check out the rest of her Top 5’s below, including Top Shred Spots, Vacation spots and Shred Tunes. FALCOR!!!!

Top 5 Shred Spots:

Leanne Pelosi and Marie-France Roy Get Signature Shoes from etnies

by Lorene Voskinarian : June 16, 2009 - 08:48 : : 0 comments

Leanne Pelosi and Marie-France Roy have signature colorway shoes out from etnies this month.

Leanne's shoe is a black and gold version of the Rap Super Slim (RSS) with a printed footbed inspired by vintage wallpaper.

10th Annual Transworld Riders' Poll Awards

by Lorene Voskinarian : February 3, 2009 - 15:04 : : 0 comments

The 10th Annual Transworld Riders' Poll Awards were held last Wednesday evening at The Joint at the Hard Rock Casino & Hotel. Todd Richards hosted the event which was sponsored by GORE-TEX.

It was an interesting night with Danny Kass, Dingo, Jamie Lynn, Tara Dakides among the presenters. Danny and Dingo took a jab at the X Games Big Air voting by declaring that the Readers Choice Awards would be voted on by text message.

Raewyn Reid won the Rookie of the Year and accepted via a taped message. Lucas Debari won for the men.

MGT Snowboard camp at Grouse Mountain wraps up

by Lucie McLean : January 8, 2009 - 03:40 : : 0 comments

The MGT Snowboard camp crew sent us this write up of the two-day all girl’s camp they held at Grouse Mountain, North Vancouver at the weekend:

 30cm – 40cm fell each night during this past weekend at Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver. Vancouver’s metamorphosis into a snow-cave resulted in a pillow party for what is usually strictly a terrain park camp.

MGT Snowboard Camp coaches Marie-France Roy, Leanne Pelosi, Raewyn Reid, Robin Van Gyn and Joanna Majcherkiewicz had campers throwing themselves off any feature producing some heavy bails and first time pillow and cliff experiences.

Teaser for all-girl Oakley movie Uniquely

by Lucie McLean : September 18, 2008 - 06:54 : : 0 comments

Oakley have been filming with their team of female snowboarders, skaters and surfers and will be presenting the results in the movie Uniquely later in the year.

 

The film features the talents of  Marie-France Roy, Chanelle Sladics, Anne-Flore Marxer, Gretchen Bleiler, Angeli Vanlaanen, Elena Hight, Amber Wing, Lauren Perkins, Lynz Adams Hawkins, Claudia Goncalves, Karina Petroni and others.
 

Check out the teaser below:
 

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