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Not So Cinderella

By John Symms

Sunday, January 25, 2009

It wasn't quite the Cinderella story that we saw in the halfpipe, but the outcome of today's contest was close. TJ Schiller came to the Winter X Games Slopestyle having competed in only one slopestyle since undergoing an ACL repair last February. And he came as an alternate, without even a certain spot in the contest. During training, you could hear whispers about how well he was skiing and that he ought to have a spot. Though he was having fun and turning heads, TJ was discouraged by his alter ...

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