American Vic Wild Wins Gold For Russia

by The Editors on February 20, 2014

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In what has to be one of the best “I-told-you-sos” of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, American Alpine snowboarder Vic Wild has won a gold medal in parallel slalom in Sochi for his new national sponsor Russia. After marrying a Russian Alpine snowboarder and realizing there was no hope in getting any support from US Skiing, Wild picked up a Russian passport and signed on with the Russian Alpine snowboarding team, according to a story on Yahoo Sports.

“I told everybody in the Russian snowboard federation: If you guys take me, you’ll never regret it,” Wild told the Wall Street Journal this week. . . And it won’t regret anything. Wild won the gold medal in the parallel giant slalom on Wednesday, an event that saw only one American entrant. Wild later celebrated with his wife Zavarzina, a fellow snowboarder who won bronze in the women’s event, and draped himself in a Russian flag.

While most don’t even consider Alpine snowboarding “snowboarding,” it’s still kind of funny to see the US pass on a Gold.

[Link: Yahoo Sports]

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