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USA alpine star Julia Mancuso trades skis for surfboard in Sochi.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Julia Mancuso, USA Skier (on her desire to try and compete at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics):
"This really motivated me. It's been a crazy journey because the least prepared I felt going into an Olympics, I won gold. The it went two silvers and now it's a bronze. And I've been just thinking back to the days in Torino when I was able to pull off a win in the GS. Now I feel I can definitely get all the pieces together. I had some problems with my equipment this year. It's such a precise thing, alpine skiing equipment, so I know I can work better there and be more prepared. I definitely want to keep going. I hope to make it to the next Olympics and be in a really good place. I still have time and I love to ski and I love my sport, so I'm just going to do my best."