Olympic Athletes Risk Limbs in Crashes at Sochi Extreme Park
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Cameron Bolton was approaching a jump when he clipped Italy’s Omar Visintin in the Olympic men’s snowboard cross semifinal. The Australian fell on his face before getting hit by another Italian, Luca Matteotti.
“Welcome to boardercross,” Nick Baumgartner, a U.S. snowboarder, said during an interview as Bolton was left with a bloody face and a suspected broken wrist. “It’s fun to watch, we put on a good show every time. When you’re in the air, you do whatever you can to survive. I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all.”