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Aerialists Ready for Down Time 'Olympics Are It!' for Dawson PARK CITY, Utah (Spet. 22) – Perhaps a moguls skier’s career should be measured in dog years (that’s seven years for every one human year). The constant toll on knees and hips as skiers rip through fields of moguls where the average bump is bigger than any mountain in Kansas, and hurl themselves high into the air while performing aerial maneuvers that could end in yard-sale-style crashes, wear down an athlete’s body quickly. While football and basketball seasons last a mere six months if the team makes it all the way to the championship game, moguls skiers spend as much as 10 months a year on the snow, pushing their knees, hips and heads to the limit. In a sport where blown out knees and torn ligaments are the norm, a seven-plus year career (that’s more than 49 in dog years, not including the years of hard training to make the U.S. Ski Team), is enough to tear apart even the strongest athletes. Vail’s Toby Dawson hasn’t just survived over seven seasons on the U.S. Team, but he has made each season better than the last. Cabral: From Moguls to Mogul? SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (Sept. 17) - Moguls champion and local favorite Travis Cabral (South Lake Tahoe, CA) is shifting his energy and focus from the Torino Olympics in five months to the Sunday night premiere of the first movie he's helped make Sunday night. But he denies he’s going from skiing moguls to being a (movie) mogul. Moguls Group Out-battles Weather EL COLORADO, Chile (Sept. 15) - U.S. moguls skiers caught a witch's brew of weather during their annual training camp in South America, but Head Coach Donnie St. Pierre said the poor conditions "brought out the best in each athlete." Q&A: Roberts Eyes Olympic Spot Moguls skier Nate Roberts (Park City, UT) became the first American man to become moguls world champion last March when he took gold at the 2005 World Championships in Ruka, Finland. He emerged on the World Cup tour during the 2004 season with his first victory; his signature move is a straight-legged backflip (in contrast to other competitors who bend their knees at takeoff on a moguls jump). He took time before an on-snow training camp - which ends in mid-September in El Colorado, Chile - to discuss his win and the upcoming Olympic season with USSA Senior Correspondent Paul Robbins.
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