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Stoked dudes a breed apart

By Deborah CharlesVANCOUVER (Reuters) - The baggy uniforms that look like blue jeans, laid-back attitude and blaring music say it all -- snowboarding is not a traditional Olympic sport.As American Kelly Clark stood at the top of the halfpipe for her last run in the women's final on Thursday night she sang out loud to the tune on her iPod.After belting out a few bars she picked up her iPod and picked a song, tucked it back in her uniform and sang a bit more before sliding into the halfpipe for a bronze medal run.Gold medalist Shaun White does not even bother with the earphones. He has his iPhone on speaker mode in his pocket, turning himself into a twisting, tumbling music box."It just really kicks things off," White said on Friday. "I can be at the top of the halfpipe and hear a song and it can put me in a mood.""What a motivator, to get you pumped up," he said.Most of the snowboarders had their own music piped into their ears during their runs but they can also pick the song playing a...

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