But these latter-day James Deans are trying hard to fit in here. It's just that they've spent most of their lives being chased out of shopping-strip parking lots on their skateboards or chased off pristine mountain tops with their snowboards. Well, I'm here to tell you that these snow monkeys, if nothing else, have legitimized what heretofore had been strictly an X Games event. And because snowboarding has a skateboarding genesis, the Americans have something to prove. But in the topsy-turvy world of snowboarding it was Canada's Ross Rebagliati who stormed to gold in his second run.
Snowboarders enjoy their freedom perhaps more than others.
It's the nature of the sport. So, please excuse them if they need a little extra time in getting with the Olympic program. But if we have to do a few uncomfortable things in order to be here, we'll do them. If you think the men are outspoken about their sport, check out the women. Snowboarding is hot.