Gretchen Bleiler
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"Gretchen Bleiler" is an American professional halfpipe snowboarding/snowboarder. She currently resides in Aspen, Colorado and is married to Chris Hotell.

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We're going to have to bushwhack our way through this whole thing.

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In 2002 the men swept the podium for the U.S., and that's the day snowboarding became a sport. I went to get my hair done a week after, and there were ladies who were 60 in the salon who knew what it was. It was amazing.

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I think the Olympics is definitely trying to catch on to what the X Games have.

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It means everything to me. I've worked so hard to get here. Today was really hard for me because I've worked for this for so long.

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That's snowboarding. We found some powder, we came down the mountain, she won gold, I won silver.

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It was an absolutely unbelievable day today. The Olympics and medaling at the Olympics has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl, and I worked so hard to get where I am and it's an unbelievable feeling.

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She has changed so much about the women's side of the sport. Hannah is always going all out, and she's made everyone raise their games.

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The Olympics and medaling have been a dream of mine since I was a little girl.

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I remember going to get my hair done [a few weeks after the U.S. sweep]. The 60-year-old women in the salon were in there talking about snowboarding. It's not a cutthroat sport at all. We're all cheering each other on. Together, we're progressing the sport.

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