NPR (Pien Huang) - Kitty cats and cloud hands - how U.S. Olympic snowboarders keep calm in competition
U.S. snowboarders psych themselves up before competition with heavy metal and pop music, cat photos, and apparently many on the men's halfpipe team now do Qigong.
United States' Alessandro Barbieri, AKA "Kitty Kitty Meow Meow," sends it during a halfpipe training session at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Livigno, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.'/Open