Gretchen Bleiler
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien welcomed a special guest, Olympic Silver medalist snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler of Aspen, Colorado.
She was joined by Saturday Night Live alum Norm MacDonald and music guest Dan Cummins.
Bleiler said about her visit to the show, “I am super excited to be going on the Conan O’Brien show. I think he is the man and I love watching his show. It’s going to be an awesome experience to be on the couch myself.”
She is on her way for the preparations for the season’s first Olympic qualification event, but before she hits the halfpipe at Copper Mountain, she had time to visit the show to talk about snowboarding and performing at the event, the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix.
She spoke before the show saying “I know we’re going to be talking about the season ahead and the Olympics as well as the Olympic qualifiers,” she continued. “We also have something secret planned that would be unique and fun for the show, but I’m not sure if it will work out. Everyone will have to tune in to see.”
The snowboarder born in 1981 started snowboarding at the age of 11. She was the first female to land a Crippler 540 in competition, and also has won more halfpipe competitions in 2003, 2005 and 2006 than any other female.
In 2003 , she was a U.S. snowboard Grand Prix Champion, a U.S. Open of snowboarding champion and also a Triple Crown of Snowboarding Champion.