Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), January 18th, 2002
Byline: Joe Garner News Staff Writer
ASPEN -- X-Gamers vow the Winter Olympics can't hold a torch to their extreme sports.
``The X Games are the Winter Olympics for the younger generation,'' said Greg Tuffelmire, 25, of Frisco. He's a competitor in skier superpipe - a race with jumps and turns down a half pipe molded in the snow.
``I know I can't go to the Olympics with my sport, and that's fine with me,'' Tuffelmire said. ``There are a lot of governing boards that run the Olympics, and I don't believe in their rules.''
ESPN's Winter X Games VI have drawn hard bodies to Aspen this weeken...
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