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The change sometimes comes from trying to ride the wave of a fad instead of truly recognizing a worthy competition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regularguycolumn.com\/cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" \/>A lot of people probably felt that way when they started adding snowboarding to the Games. Just a way to appease the X Games crowd, some said. Not a real sport, others said. Lots of good advertising dollars and big audiences, the television and organizing folks said.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a dismissive attitude of the snowboarding events, I don&#8217;t really blame you. But I hope you at least suspend that feeling for the snowboard cross.<\/p>\n<p>I tell you this, of course, after the competition for men and women has concluded so you will have to wait four years or actually watch the Winter X Games some time. Each only takes one day and features a mad dash to the bottom of the hill in groups of four. They race down a pretty complicated course, turning and jumping. It&#8217;s pretty fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>You can see a racer like American Seth Wescott lay in wait for most of the race before making a charge at the end for the gold medal. You can see America&#8217;s Lindsey Jacobellis hot-dog it on the way to the finish line like she did in 2006 and lose the gold medal. In a sport most people probably see as reckless, there are rewards for patience and strategy. I have definitely adopted snowboard cross as one of my favorites. They have some other kinds of racing later in the Games so I hope I enjoy them just as much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes cringe when they start adding new sports to the Olympics. The change sometimes comes from trying to ride the wave of a fad instead of truly recognizing a worthy competition. 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