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Sunshine Coast Daily - Found Aug. 11, 2008 ... team consists of about 10 of Australia?s top snow sports athletes including Olympic gold medallist Dale Begg-Smith, five times world aerial... |
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Sunshine Coast Daily - Found Aug. 6, 2008 ... team consists of around 10 of Australia?s top snow sports athletes including Olympic gold medallist Dale Begg-Smith, five times world aerial... |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Found Jul. 25, 2008 Another Australian, Dale Begg-Smith, will be defending his Olympic gold medal in the moguls here, too. |
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The Age - Found Jul. 25, 2008 Another Australian, Dale Begg-Smith, will be defending his Olympic gold medal in the moguls here, too. |
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Daily Telegraph Australia - Found Aug. 8, 2008 Olympics were being held now, Australia would have three gold medal favourites in moguls skier Dale Begg-Smith, aerial queen Jacqui Cooper and... |
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Ski Press - Found Aug. 7, 2008 ... and Alex Bilodeau from Rosemčre are currently third and fourth chasing down Olympic gold medallist Dale Begg-Smith from Australia and France... |
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Sunshine Coast Daily - Found Jul. 26, 2008 ?I looked after Dale Begg-Smith in 2006 Olympics and 2007 World Championships. He is an extraordinary athlete. Mentally he issecond to none. |
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Sunshine Coast Daily - Found Jul. 24, 2008 ?I looked after Dale Begg-Smith in 2006 Olympics and 2007 World Championships. He is an extraordinary athlete. Mentally he issecond to none. |
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Dale Begg-Smith
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's freestyle skiing | |||
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| Gold | 2006 Turin | Moguls | |
Dale Begg-Smith (born 18 January 1985 in Vancouver, Canada) is an Australian freestyle skier. Begg-Smith won the gold medal for Australia, his adopted country, in the men's moguls event at the 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin, Italy. He is only the third Australian to win a gold medal in a Winter Games. In the lead-up to the 2006 Winter Games, Dale Begg-Smith had won three World Cup rounds and was ranked world number one in the moguls discipline.
Begg-Smith was skiing for his native Canada as a teenager when his coaches told him he was spending too much time on his fledgling business (AdsCPM Network a.k.a. CPM Media Inc.), and not enough time in training. He subsequently quit the Canadian ski program because it clashed with his business interests and, along with his brother Jason, moved to Australia at age 15. The brothers chose to ski for Australia because the country had a smaller ski program that offered them more attention and flexibility. This ensured that they could still successfully manage their business. The brothers stayed out of competitive skiing for three years and instead trained with the Australian team, living in Jindabyne each winter. The pair qualified for Australian citizenship after these three years in 2003-04, and were then free to compete for their adopted country.
Alisa Monk, co-ordinator of the moguls program, says that she books Begg-Smith's hotels and flights economically, despite his wealth. "Wherever the team stays, he stays. There are certainly no big demands. You wouldn't know he had a bit of money". She also said "When he is at Perisher he stays in the same hut as the other mogul skiers and his brother which is small and old and almost falling down", and that "He just doesn't try to stand out at all."[1]
On 21 February 2006 Australia Post issued a postage stamp commemorating Begg-Smith's achievement, saying his gold put him in a "small and honoured group of athletes".[2]
AdsCPM Network was started by Dale Begg-Smith and produced a number of websites and software products for the spyware, malware, and adware markets using techniques such as pop-unders (similar to popups) to load web pages with scripting content. At the peak of this business it was reported to serve 20 million pop-ups and pop-unders per day. [3]
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