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TIL of Elizabeth Swaney, a completely average skier who managed to compete in the Olympics by cleverly manipulating the system

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VM5PB TIL 3.6 billion people have watched some part of the live broadcast of the 2016 Olympics. That is almost half of the world's population.
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