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A jump that awes even the Olympians
Story Hinckley
However big it looks on television, it鈥檚 bigger in person. I鈥檓 speaking of the ramp for the Big Air competition at the Winter Olympics, which I saw this past weekend for the first time in Livigno, Italy. I watched snowboarders rocket themselves off the edge and linger, for just a moment, like a star in the jet black night sky. Rather than being built off the mountain, this jump is a freestanding structure with scaffolding similar to a roller coaster. Athletes take an elevator to the top. It turns out that is intimidating even to the pros.
鈥淵ou鈥檙e pretty high up there, and I鈥檓 scared of heights, so that was pretty scary,鈥� said U.S. snowboarder Lily Dhawornvej. But on her first run off the jump she landed a backside 1080 with a double grab and received her best score of the night.
In today鈥檚 Daily, Mark Sappenfield and I look at how Olympic athletes 鈥� masters of innovation 鈥� train to push limits, transforming moments of fear into triumph and awe.
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Also: Mark joins our 鈥淲hy We Wrote This鈥� podcast this week to talk about covering these (and other) Games. You can listen here. I鈥檒l be joining the podcast in another episode that鈥檚 coming soon.
