Nick Goepper — American Athlete born on March 14, 1994,

Nick Goepper is an American freeskier from Lawrenceburg, Indiana. He has won three gold medals and a silver at the Winter X Games in the Slopestyle contest, as well as a bronze medal at the Olympic games... (wikipedia)

I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.
I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.
The skiing center of the world is southeastern Indiana, where I like to call home. It looks like the Alps there; it's crazy.
If you want something bad enough, and you're having enough fun doing it, you can accomplish it. You just got to get creative and find a way.
I had just got back from skiing, and I was just hanging out, browsing the Internet, and I found some article that was a press release that said slope style was gonna be included in the Olympics. And the first thing I did was call up my coach Mike Hanley, and we were ecstatic.