For snowboarder Jake Canter, an Olympic bronze medal is the prize after a near-death journey

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LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Nobody could blame the doctors for telling 13-year-old Jake Canter he should never step on a snowboard again. Nobody could blame 22-year-old Jake Canter for ignoring them. Nine years after enduring a traumatic brain injury, the result of getting kicked in the head in a freak accident on a trampoline at an action-sports camp, that 22-year-old U.S. rider won the Olympic bronze medal in his sport’s trick-filled trip down the hill — slopestyle. That third-place finish

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