(from The Chicago Tribune)
Pegasus rising: snowboarder Watanabe a star wordsmith
By Philip Hersh
VANCOUVER -- The Olympics haven't even begun, but U.S. snowboarder Graham Watanabe already has a leg up on the quote of the Games.
He certainly gets the idea the Olympics have a mythos.
Watanabe, 28, was an alternate at the 2006 Winter Games but wound up competing in snowboarder cross.
He still considers 2010 Games his first real Olympics, having assured himself a spot in the event. Asked what that meant to him at the U.S. snowboard team's Wednesday press conference, Watanabe said:
``Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and the creature that they birth. I somehow tame it and ride it into the sky in the clouds and sunshine and rainbows. That’s what it feels like.”
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