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...women half-pipe snowboarders almost missed their final runs--the most important moment of their athletic lives--because they had crept away to an off-limits slope to sneak in some extra rides. Hannah Teter, 19, and Gretchen Bleiler, 24, returned in time to take home gold and silver, respectively. In the finals of the snowboard cross, a new, Roller-Derby-on-snow Olympic event in which four boarders twist and fly down a mountain to the finish, favorite Seth Wescott, 29, should have panicked, trailing Slovakia's Radoslav Zidek late in the race. (It's the Olympics...
...While the other U.S Olympic men's half-pipers ? 2002 silver medalist Danny Kass, 23, daredevil Andy Finch, 24, and Mason Aguirre, 19- chase the "The Flying Tomato," the women's competition is a two-rider race. Teter, 18, and defending X-Games champ Gretchen Bleiler, 24, fuel the most intense rivalry in the sport. Both can land the top women's move, the 900 (two-and-a-half spins in mid-air), with ease. And they do it while eyeing their antagonist. "We'll be like hanging out at the top, and I'll say, like...
...more than rare talent alone that separates the Collection--whose members include teen phenoms Mason Aguirre, 18, and Luke Mitrani, 15; 2002 Olympic gold medalists Ross Powers, 26, and Kelly Clark, 22; 2005 X-Games silver medalist Andy Finch, 24; and Gretchen Bleiler, 24, who is expected to take the women's half-pipe gold in Torino--from the rest of the snowboarding world. The group, formed in 2004, is the first rider-controlled team in the sport, operating outside the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), which oversees the U.S. national team...
...Bleiler, who tests limits both on and off the pipe, who appears most ready for breakout stardom. Clad in a painted-on bikini, she posed for a racy FHM cover before the 2004 X-Games. "It definitely crosses the line of my comfort zone," she says. "I pushed myself." She plans to push at the Olympics too. On her program is the Michaelchuck, a backflip trick that no woman has ever landed in competition. Bleiler credits her Collection teammates for some of her success. "We're definitely having to bushwhack our way through this whole thing, but it's exciting...
Lewinsky: Much easier. In fact, had I not had the prior relationship with Andy [Bleiler], I doubt this would have happened with the President...