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Gretchen Bleiler First By: Bailey B

Bleiler almost missed the cut of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. In the past couple of years she has traveled to Beijing as a host for Yahoo! She was designed her own clothing collection with Oakley, And her own chapstick line. During the summer of 2009 Bleiler was married to an other Olympic medalist Chris Hotell in Dominical, Costa Rica. She has gone from a Midwest girl to an international snowboarding superstar. She has her own glove and mitten line with Level, a helmet with Giro and she developed the the ride and look of the K2 Mix Snowboard. She quotes “I love that I did grow up in Ohio because it really made me appreciate having these four amazing mountains in my backyard to go and snowboard.” “Fashion and snowboarding have always kind of falling together.”

Final Gretchen Bleiler By: Bailey B

Bleiler almost missed the cut of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. In the past couple of years she has traveled to Beijing as a host for Yahoo! She was designed her own clothing collection with Oakley, And her own chapstick line. During the summer of 2009 Bleiler was married to an other Olympic medalist Chris Hotell in Dominical, Costa Rica. She has gone from a Midwest girl to an international snowboarding superstar. She has her own glove and mitten line with Level, a helmet with Giro and she developed the the ride and look of the K2 Mix Snowboard. She quotes “I love that I did grow up in Ohio because it really made me appreciate having these four amazing mountains in my backyard to go and snowboard.” “Fashion and snowboarding have always kind of falling together.” Putting her hectic schedule into perspective, in early autumn 2009 she was almost certain that she and her husband Chris had spent more time away than together since the 2009 wedding. Bleiler has an experience as a model but now she is having a view of a designer.