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Archive Home > 2004 > May > 11 > Bull to board

Bull to board

Ex-bullfighter aims for Olympics -- as a snowboarder

By Keith Ridler / The Bulletin
May 11, 2004

When Gerardo del Villar decided he wanted to represent his native Mexico in the Olympics on an Alpine snowboard, he took the bull by the horns.

Which is something he had been doing, literally, for years anyway as a bullfighter.

"I saw the last (winter) Olympics and my dream came to....

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