1:19:05
When we had to announce
that we didn't have a half-pipe contest,
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it was just, like, "Yeah. Cool."
1:19:11
It's not that important for them,
you know, to compete all the time.
1:19:15
I think we get more stoked
riding that way.
1:19:39
I really enjoy that sport.
1:19:43
It's great to me.
I wish I could do that in every contest.
I want to just go for surf.
1:20:04
[ Narrator]
Because of it rapid rise in popularity,
1:20:07
the Olympics soon set it sights
on snowboarding.
1:20:09
In 1998 snowboarding reluctantly
stepped on to the Olympic stage,
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dividing the tight-knit
snowboarding community.
1:20:18
[ Rice ] Coming up to the Olympics,
there was all this hype about how Terje
wasn't gonna be there.
1:20:22
And at that point,
Terje was pretty much considered...
1:20:25
the best half-pipe rider
and the person to beat.
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And if he wasn't there,
it wasn't a real contest.
And I totally agreed with that.
1:20:31
I think it's really wrong
and not really good for the sport.
1:20:34
They're trying to pick countries
that are up against countries.
1:20:37
It's not so much
what snowboarding's about.
1:20:39
[ Tina ]
It was important that he was there
to make that decision...
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because there was both sides of it,
and he represented that side of it.
1:20:46
[Richards ]
As the Olympic team
going into Nagano,
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we had a lot of faith in people
that weren't up to the task...
1:20:52
of making snowboarding
look really cool to the world.
1:20:55
The athlete Rebagliati, Ross,
member of the Canadian delegation,
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is disqualified and excluded
from the 18th Olympic Winter Games.