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BEIJING (AP) A well-timed postponement allowed Nick Goepper to watch his beloved Cincinnati Bengals in the Super Bowl without worrying that it might distract him from qualifying in freestyle skiing at the Beijing Olympics. Not that it was all that easy to catch the game. “I was like going back and forth between Twitter and live stream, Twitter and live stream while I was getting ready this morning,” said Goepper, who is from Lawrenceville, Indiana, about 25 miles from Cincinnati.
BEIJING (AP) Slopestyle silver medalist Julia Marino of the United States has dropped out of the Olympic snowboard big air contest after a fall in practice while teammate Jamie Anderson fell during her first two runs and won’t qualify for the big air finals.
The Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl took place at the same time for the first time. That created a big day for NBC. The network televised both. It also sent athletes in China scrambling to find ways to watch. The time change meant the game took place Monday morning at the Olympics. Freestyle skier Nick Goepper is a Cincinnati Bengals fan and says he bounced back and forth between following the game on Twitter and streaming it. Snowboarders Chloe Kim and Shaun White were already done competing and made it back in time to go to the game.