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When I first moved to Colorado, I tried skiing and snowboarding for the first time. After attempting the two sports, I realized they have major differences. Stopping on a snowboard was easier, but I loved having ski poles to propel me across flat surfaces.
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The XXV Winter Olympics are taking place in Milan, and snowboarding will begin its events this weekend. In this archive Fresh Air interview from 1998, Jake Burton Carpenter — the founder of Burton Snowboards and one of the inventors of the modern snowboard — spoke to Terry Gross about the sport’s Olympic debut in Nagano that year,