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“Flyin’ Brian” Rice Competes in World Cup and Has High Hopes to Soar Into Olympics

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“Flyin’ Brian” Rice competed in the FIS Snowboarding Big Air World Cup in Chur, Switzerland this past October. The seventeen-year-old is confident he will become the first black snowboarder on the US Olympic team according to an article written by Shauna Farnell in the New York Times (2021). In the Chur World Cup, he placed in the middle of the […]
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Does the Health of U.S. Cities Correlate with Their Distance to Ski Resorts?

This week, Wallethub.com published its 2021 list of Healthiest & Unhealthiest Cities in America. In their report, Wallethub ranks 182 of the most populated U.S. cities by measuring them in 44 categories of what they determined to be key indicators of good health. These indicators range from the number of healthy restaurants per capita to most walking trails per capita […]
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Detroit Street Skier Gets Busted on Live Newscast

A skier being towed on the snowy roads of metro Detroit was pulled over after inadvertently appearing on a live local newscast, following the Superbowl on Sunday night. A winter storm has dumped over 1 and 1/2 feet on parts of Michigan, the most snow Detroit has seen since 1974. “When I first turned onto 10 Mile, I was like, ‘OK, we’re doing this’,” said Jacob Lachowski, the skier. Lachowski and two friends, all students at Lawrence Tech […]
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