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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...
Pressure, what pressure? Shaun White, 19, the Michael Jordan of the half-pipe (the 16-ft.-deep mountainside trench in which snowboarders do their tricks), muffed a landing on his first qualifying run, a potential knockout blow that would have shocked his sport. But only a blizzard could keep that shaggy red mane off the podium. To clear his head, the "Flying Tomato" took a few easy rides with his coach between turns and then rocked the rest of the field when he got back in the pipe...
...rivalry with the sport of skiing. In fact, last week snowboarding trumped the older sport in attitude and drama. The rebels not only won the medals, but they were also winning fans. Some ski races were poorly attended, but the boarders rocked the hill. "Seeing the half-pipe guys and girls throw down the way that they did," says Wescott, borrowing his verbs from hip-hop, "and then for us to come up here and make history with the first snowboard cross--snowboarding is really becoming the heart and soul of the Olympic games...
...Half-pipe fans should expect a stunning show in Torino. Despite winning four of the six possible men's and women's medals in Salt Lake City, expectations are even higher for the 2006 Games, which start on Feb. 10. "We are shooting for sweeps on both sides of the podium," says Bud Keene, the U.S. Olympic half-pipe coach. "Why would we shoot for anything else? We're taking an even stronger crew (to the Olympics) this time. Our men are just unbelievable, and our women are four of the seven strongest women in the world...
...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, 'So you're going to push me tonight?'? says Teter, who is friends with Bleiler off the pipe. "And she'll be like, 'Yeah, I'm going to push you, you going to push me?' And I'm like, 'ah ha.'" So we build off each other. I know she's really good, she knows I'm . . .pretty good...