One of my hopes is that maybe for a lot of the U.S. TV-watching public there's those who wouldn't tune into an X Games, but would the Olympics. I'm hoping that it will be eye-opening in the same way.
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I just knew if I was patient and confident that I'd reach the part of the course that I could work a little better, catch the speed on him. Then coming into that one turn, I dove the inside line on him like clockwork. That's how it worked out.
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To have a great race like that in the finals, I think it just makes the sport look good.
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It's a little bizarre. You'd have people yelling from the chairlift, and it was adults a lot of the time. It was disheartening at times. I was a 10-year-old kid feeling prejudice from adults. In the early '90s there was a huge transition.
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I think this could be a big sport. Our country loves NASCAR. They love the racing element of it. This is like that on snowboards.
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