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“It’s just a game-changer because the level of halfpipe riding has gotten so crazy,” said snowboarding commentator Jonathan “DC” Oetken, who was at the bottom of the pipe Sunday.
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Heiple’s son, Jonathan, told the Journal Star his father recovered from a fall in October but a blood vessel ruptured around the first of the year.
