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To Be a Gazillionaire

By Mary Fenton
EXPN.com

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Back in 1983, if you won snowboarding's first U.S. Open, you got $500 and a handful of high-fives. Granted, back then you didn't have to spend 300 days per year training, pull off back-to-back 10s or even smile pretty for the shrerd-arazzi, but you still had to get decked out in neon and duct tape and see how long you could point it before blowing out at the bottom. Now it's 2007, and 25 years later, the U.S. Open is one of the biggest and highest paid contests in snowboarding. It's so big, in ...

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