\u201cWhen you hop in a line that\u2019s a little more chewed up and a bit more skied, it\u2019s much harder to ski,\u201d Woods said.<\/p>\n
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Dual moguls medallists Ikuma Horishima, Mikael Kingsbury and Matt Graham with their partners and kids.Credit: AP<\/p>\n
Graham would have preferred the red, but of his five runs, he drew the blue four times.<\/p>\n
\u201cEither way … I was going to adapt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as you look up and look down the hill, that\u2019s where you\u2019re going to go and that\u2019s where my vision was at today. I say sometimes dual moguls, you\u2019ve got to be like Buzz Lightyear: it\u2019s basically just falling with style, and you\u2019re just trying to get to the bottom and make it look good.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was symmetry, too. Graham said he\u2019d been in regular contact with Dale Begg-Smith, the Aussie skier who won gold on the same day back in 2006, at the Winter Olympics held in Turin, a few hours\u2019 drive away.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe offered me some advice as he always does. He\u2019s still very passionate about the sport and always wants Australia to do well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was super stoked for Coop the other day. He messaged me straight away and just said \u2018What\u2019s Coop\u2019s number?\u2019 I\u2019m sure Cooper got a nice message from Dale. What he\u2019s done for our sport goes very unnoticed, but it\u2019s really cool, the legacy he\u2019s left.\u201d<\/p>\n
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So … to infinity and beyond, then?<\/p>\n
The expectation was that these would be Graham\u2019s last Olympics, but he seems keen to have another crack so long as his body, mind and family allows. In one breath, he described it as a borderline miracle that he, at 31, and Kingsbury, at 33, are still here; in another, he said that anything is possible, including a possible fifth Olympics appearance at 35 in the French Alps in 2030.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything\u2019s possible. We\u2019ve sort of shown that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cScotty James in the half pipe has shown that, he\u2019s getting better and he\u2019s the same age as me and he\u2019s a fellow father. We\u2019ve been led by the likes of your Roger Federers, your Novak Djokovics, your Kelly Slaters: all these guys who are just pushing themselves, and the way sports science and recovery and all that works these days.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, is it possible I could be here in four years time and still be going for a gold medal? Hell yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Winter Olympic Games is broadcast on the 9Network, 9Now and Stan Sport.<\/p>\n