An Olympic champ’s grandma, a lawn mowing job and Jake Burton are all part of snowboarding’s roots
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LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — There might not be snowboarding at the Olympics — or snowboards at all — if it weren’t for an entrepreneur named Jake Burton. And, in what feels like more than your garden-variety twist of fate, the grandmother of one of the sport’s best riders at the Milan Cortina Games played a small role. Decades ago and a world away from the mountain, she hired Burton to mow her lawn. Defending slopestyle champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott’s grandma lived on Long Island in the 1970s and saw
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