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ALL OR NOTHING

the winning run at the Freeride Junior World Championships in Andorra last winter, Jackson Bathgate, 18, secured his place at the top of the international podium. The victory was one of two options for the Whistler native—go full throttle and win, or crash and don’t finish. That’s his strength, says Derek Foose, Bathgate’s longtime coach at the Whistler Freeride Club—he goes all out,

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