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Michigan’s Nick Baumgartner trains for Olympics on homemade backyard snowboard track

Many Olympians train in world-class facilities, but gold medalist Nick Baumgartner simply walks into his own backyard. At 44 years old, Team USA’s oldest athlete from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is chasing another Olympic Games—not with fancy equipment or world-class coaches, but with grit, experience, and a snowboard track he carved with his own two hands.