Gretchen Bleiler: Upside down, spinning around

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Gretchen Bleiler includes the Crippler 720 — in which the rider spins twice while inverted — in her competition repertoire. She won the silver medal in women’s halfpipe at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.