HTDE: Curling Stones and Halfpipe Lines
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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More behind the scenes at the Milan Cortina Olympics with unsung heroes of the Winter Games. Mike and Ian talk with a curling legend, find out where those big stones come from and meet a guy snowboarders couldn't land without.
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| 0:49.3 | If you have obsessively been watching the Olympics in Milan Cortina the way we have, |
| 0:52.6 | you've probably seen a guy named Nick Monty. |
| 1:00.0 | He's the one who skis out and paints the blue line in the snow in the half pipe and big air competition. |
| 1:01.6 | Nick is with us now. |
| 1:02.9 | We have him on Zoom. |
| 1:05.9 | And Nick, it looks like you just got off a mountain. |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah, no, no. |
| 1:10.5 | Just go down and ready to go up one more time for the big air. |
| 1:18.2 | So how do you do... So all the blue lines that we see on the pipe or on the slope, you've painted that. |
| 1:20.4 | And you're skiing while doing this. |
| 1:20.8 | Yes. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, you must be pretty steady with the spray gun then, huh? |
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