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As the person who has probably taken the biggest stand ever against the FIS/IOC (boycotting the Olympics even though he was a dead cert for gold), this is Terje Haakonsen's recent take on the subject (as posted on Twitter):

The thing is WinterGold, it IS important "whether you call it Snowboard Cross or Boardercross" - because "Boardercross" is all about snowboarding culture and its history, and "Snowboard Cross" reflects the dismissive attitude (bordering on contempt) many people in the FIS have for the sport of snowb...

The term boardercross is trademarked/registered in some countries (and not by FIS but by someone else) and therefore the new name is snowboardcross. I don't think so. Yes, the name was trademarked by Peak Productions Inc. (who Steven Rechtschaffner, the "inventor" of boardercross worked with) - how...

Schneewurm just meant that the idea of the original Boardercoss (to bring together hardbooters and softbooters). . . Sure people raced boardercross on both hardboots and softboots, but that wasn't "the idea" of the original boardercoss, it was merely a byproduct. There were still hardbooters racing...

Boardercross has gone, Snowboardcross is actual the name now by FIS... ...Now adays Snowboardcross is a own discipline. That's not true at all. Boardercross and Snowboard Cross are exactly the same thing. The reason it's not called boardercross by the FIS is poor translation. The FIS's native langu...