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Britain's first snow sport Winter Olympic medallist?

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Anna Thompson | 16:29 UK time, Saturday, 17 April 2010

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He is only 16 but Jamie Nicholls already lives an envious lifestyle as he travels around the ski resorts of Europe pursuing his sporting dream.

The teenager from Yorshire is not a seasonaire boarder bum, though. He is in fact regarded as one of Britain's best snowboarders.

Nicholls underlined his ability at the recent British Freeski and Snowboarding Championships (known as the Brits) where he won the slopestyle and half-pipe titles and finished second in the big air.

He is also an exciting prospect on the world stage and is aiming to challenge the top order with some claiming his talent is such that in four years' time he could become Britain's first snow sport Winter Olympic medallist.

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