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So you're a big fan of Winter Olympics, right?

Absolutely.

What are you looking out for?

Well, number one, hockey for me.

But I have to admit, one of the reasons I love the Winter Olympics is we see sports that we just

don't see the other four years in between.

Ones that really push Olympic athletes just to the edge of what's possible, it's terrifying

to look at sometimes.

Yeah, and there's also a lot of

beauty. And, you know, there are people who will argue whether figure skating is a sport. You know,

if you choose the score in the end, is that a sport? You know, we don't necessarily want to get

into that whole argument. But there's a lot of beauty to look at. And there's certainly, for me,

my favorite is watching slalom, watching the skiing, downhill skiing.

I ski it as a kid and I raced a little bit, not very well at all.

But it's really fun to watch people do it really well.

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