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Ed Drake

May 15, 2026

27:39
... probably X Games is the top.
27:41
I mean, yeah, like, even freestyle skiing, slopestyle and big air only arrived in the Olympics in 2014.
27:46
I know, like, slopestyle arrived in 2014, big air was 2022 for skiing, so it's still quite fresh and, you know, there's only been four gold medallists in, in the, the history of freestyle skiing in the Olympics, but there was already such a deep freestyle skiing culture that, like, the X Games was the pinnacle event, and, you know, people are on both sides of the fence really.
28:04
You've got people who are strict, firm X, X Games is the best skier in the world, and then you've got people who've come up through the, like, the GB snow sport pathway or something, and they, they, they would probably have a different, a different-

10 MINS LATER

37:57
Yeah, Jackie Wiles, yeah
37:58
... who picked up the bronze medal.
37:59
And sh- Mikaela Shiffrin was saying, you know, she, she was, you know, sorry to Breezy Johnson for, for not performing.
38:06
But at the same time, she said, "Uh, but I'm also v- very aware that if my event had gone my way, these two wouldn't have been sat here with a medal themselves." So I thought in that moment it was actually quite a nice sort of way of, uh, of spinning that sort of negative i- into a, into a team positive, which I thought was actually quite-

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