The article is devoted to the use of English borrowings and English words in the reports about winter extreme sports, which were included on the programme at the latest Olympic games. 

The paper analyses the use of English borrowings and English words by Russian sports commentators in various snowboarding broadcasts at Sochi and PyeongChang Olympics. The material used includes running commentary scripts of sports commentators from Channel One, Russia-1 and Match TV. This paper emphasizes the importance of lexicographic description of this type of lexis and describes metalinguistic reflection of sports presenters commentating on the extreme sports. The metalinguistic reflection reveals a difficulty of adapting a large group of subject-specific words for mainstream audience.

The author compares the use of extreme sports terms borrowed from English in Russian extreme sports commentary with their use in sports commentary in other languages and other kinds of sports. The article discusses both the situations when the use of English words in Russian sports commentary is appropriate and justified by the specific features of the discourse and the situations when it renders the perception of the commentary difficult.