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Big Air boarders take off
With the weather cooperating as much as can be expected in the Rockies in January, the X Games bid farewell to Crested Butte with the final competition, Big Air snowboarding. And the athletes who stuck around to make it happen put on quite a show.
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Borgstede goes big
Snowboarder Jason Borgstede got the Big Air practice round off to a flying start.
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Chat with Rick Thorne
You've seen him on the broadcasts all week, and you've been asking for him in our nightly chats, so we brought him in. Rick Thorne, host of X2day and a regular at the X Games cyber cafe, chatted recently. Oh, and he is, indeed, buff.
Check out a transcript of Rick Thorne's chat
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