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Anthony said: “Mogul skiing in Australia, it’s a really strong sport. . . . The opportunity that getting a gold opens up for the younger people in Australia is also really exciting.”

He and his wife of 57 years, the former Susan Smukler, split their time between Washington and Aspen, Colo., where at age 80 he took a class to improve his mogul skiing.

State Route 140 to the park is a gnarly but scenic 26-mile drive, sort of like mogul skiing.

Scott Rawles, head coach of the Chinese Olympic mogul skiing team and former head coach of the U.S. team, last fall took a four-hour train ride south to visit an acrobatic school in the city of Puyang.

Rawles said he and his Chinese colleagues tested students between the age of 12 and 15, and recruited promising ones to try mogul skiing.