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Torino Primer

Torino Olympic hopeful Gretchen Bleiler of Aspen, Colo., was the 2003 and 2005 Winter X Games superpipe champion. Just to prove her 2005 X Games win was no fluke, Bleiler followed it up a week later with a World Cup win on the 2006 Olympic halfpipe course. 

 
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