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"The U.S. Olympic Freestyle team is coming together after qualifying events this past weekend in Lake Plaid and Val St. Come, Quebec.The official team nominations will be announced Tuesday, but Olympic medalist Hannah Kearney of Norwich, Vt., has already secured her spot to Sochi.She skied Freestyle at Waterville Valley and is now their resort ambassador.Adding to the U.S. team this weekend was Bradley Wilson of Butte, Mont. He secured his spot with a third-place finish at the moguls FIS World Cup at Val St. Come.It was his second podium in a week after his third-place finish at Lake Placid on Jan. 15, giving him the minimum criteria for qualification.\"I came in thinking that maybe my third-place finish last week would be good enough to get me to the games. So I went out there and skied just for myself, which was really nice. The pressure was off because I wasn't skiing for anyone but myself. I lowered my degree of difficulty today because the course was eating people up and I didn't want to push it, and it ended up working put really well. I'm really pleased with the way everything went today,\" he said.Alex Bilodeau of Canada took the win for the men while teammate Chloe Dufour-Lapointe won for the women.Five other U.S. men qualified for the final, including rookie Troy Murphy of Bethel, Maine, in fifth, Jermey Cota of Carrabassett Valley, Maine, 11th, Dylan Walczyk of Breckenridge, Colo., in 14th, Sho Kashima of S. Lake Tahoe, Calif., in 15th and Joe Discoe of Telluride, Colo., 16th.Six U.S. women also qualified for the final, including Kearney of Norwich, Vt., who finished fourth.Heidi Kloser (Vail, Colo.) was next in fifth with Sophia Schwartz (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) sixth, Eliza Outtrim (Hamden, Conn.) seventh, Heather McPhie (Bozeman, Mont.) 10th and Ali Kariotis (Tiburon, Calif.) 16th.Schwartz used to ski in New Hampshire when she was a student at Holderness School in the Plymouth area.Alex Bilodeau of Canada took the win for the men while teammate Chloe Dufour-Lapointe won for the women, Sunday.Pat Deneen (Cle Elum, Wash.) sat out Sunday\u2019s competition to rest up for the Olympics.He clinched his Sochi spot last week at Lake Placid.Light snow fell on the course most of the day making for flat light conditions for the athletes.19003418"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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