My favorite paper, the Wall Street Journal, interviewed me for an article on Shaun White. I guess he had mentioned my 02 “Dinner Roll” performance when talking about his plans to unveil new tricks in Vancouver at the Olympics. Most of what I have to say about the subject is in the video which I embedded. The written part is very brief and my quote is little out of context. Of course, I do have some moments of bitterness when thinking back on my 4th place result but I don’t mean to disparage my competitors. In general, my performance there has been a highlight in some ways equal in satisfaction to my gold in 98, X silver in 99 etc. although it has taken me awhile to realize that. It has been a great part of my whole career. I love hearing people recounting the 02 games. There was no hesitation for me. Had I known ahead of time that I would not be able to win, I can’t say that I would have done the same thing but I felt strongly about presenting the myself and the sport in its most advanced stage on the worlds biggest stage, the Olympics. I am flattered that my performance pops into Shaun’s sphere when he is thinking about his strategy, even if it is as a “don’t.” I remember what I did as do others and my performance contributed to the evolution of a sport that I love. In the end, I was true to the spirit of Freestyle competition and I can live with that.
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Jonny Moseley’s Blog
I listen to your show every week and I set your rss feeds directly into my website; I dont beleive for a second that your favorite newsstand is WSJ. Your more like a NYTimes kindve guy. DUDE: totally gratuitous towards a dying newspaper that isnt doing you any favors.
Thanks. I do like the NY times as well, but I like WSJ better just because I am most interested in business stories. Of course I use the NY Times material more for my show. Interesting you thought the article was a dig. I did not see it that way. Also, from what I have read the WSJ is the only paper that is not dying due to its subscription based model. Not sure why I am sticking up for the journal, I don’t really care all that much, but anyway.
Ah,heck, they spelled your name wrong in the subtitles.
Jonny you saved skiing during the games and you are still doing it today! From winning gold to 4 time battle of superstars 2nd place while screwing around to all the other things u have done. I blew out my knee on your run the old west face and think its gr8 squaw put u name on it
And I’m with you the wall street journal at least the online since I don’t read the newspaper is great!
bless up and bless out
Shaun is just amazing, because he won the sommer and winter x-games. But I think everybody that can skateboard is a good snowboarder
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