Kelly Clark Snowboarding

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The report I will be doing is about Kelly Clark. Snowboarding is what she competes in. Kelly Clark went to the Olympics 3 times. This is her story.
Amazingly Kelly Clark was given birth to in Newport, Rhode Island in the U.S. She was born on July 26, 1983. First of all, she started snowboarding at 7. After that, she started snowboarding she initiated to compete in 1999 as a member of the U.S snowboarding team in 2000. Now, this is when she was training. Her training was in the Mount Snow Academy in Vermont. 2001 spring, she graduated. The next activity she did was rushing to the Olympics. The first time she went Olympics was in 2002. After that, she went to the Olympics in 2002, and 2006 all for the halfpipe.
These are most of her achievements.

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