""As I get older and claim that I'm going to go to another Olympics, so many people step up and say, 'There's no way,'" said Baumgartner, who was competing his fifth Winter Games. "That just adds fuel to the fire. I love it.""
""When I come here to the Olympics at 44, no one expects me to win or do that well, so it takes the pressure away and I just go out there and I do everything I can," he added. "When you find something you really love, it's so much fun to push your body to see what you're capable of.""
Rich Ruohonen, 54, entered play for the United States curling team during the eighth end of an 8-3 loss to Switzerland, becoming the oldest American to compete at the Winter Olympics. At least half a dozen athletes aged 40 or older competed at the Milan-Cortina Games. Lindsey Vonn suffered a spectacular crash on a torn ACL that ended her Olympics on her first run. Snowboarder Nick Baumgartner, 44, narrowly missed the podium, finishing seventh in snowboard cross. Five-time Olympians Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, and Kaillie Humphries, 40, will compete in women's bobsled. Sarah Schelper, 46, skiing for Mexico, finished 26th in the women's Super-G with her son watching.
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