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Cheer for Sarah Conrad

Tonight, Dartmouth’s Sarah Conrad is competing in the women’s half-pipe semi-finals, starting at 8pm. Team Conrad will be meeting—wearing their finest patriotic gear—at Dave Doolittle’s Taproom & Grill (90 Tacoma Drive) to cheer her on, so bring your noisemakers and foam fingers. Exciting! Oohlala: I wonder if the French women’s snowboarding team will be drawing on hipster staches too, like French half-pipe snowboarder Mathieu Crepel.

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Best Medal Hope at the Olympics

Australian snowboarding star Torah Bright just “threw down a double cork.” That’s shredding lingo for a double backflip, which is practically unheard of in female snowboarding, writes 24-year-old Dartmouth-born snowboarder Sarah Conrad in an email from the other side of the world. “To put it in perspective, there aren’t many guys trying this trick yet, […]

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