Ramone Cooper
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Selected member of the 2010 Australian Olympic Winter Team
Profile
- Ramone started the 2009/10 season with a ninth placing in Suomu, Finland, the second top ten of his career. Athough he couldnt match that in the following three events, finishing in the mid-20s.
- Whilst training for the 2010 World Cup in Deer Valley, USA Ramone injured his knee however he passed a fitness test
allowing him to make his Games debut.
- The lingering effects of an earlier knee injury had restricted Ramone to just two World Cup events in the 2008/09 season, competing at Mont Gabriel and Cypress Mountain. But he ended the season in style in March at the World Championships in Inawashiro, Japan,
placing 15th in the dual moguls and 20th single moguls.
- The highlight of Ramone's 2007/08 season was the first top ten of his career, an eighth placing in Lake Placid after qualifying in seventh position.
Q&A
| Childhood ambition |
To live a full and happy life. Competing at an Olympic Games represents this for
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| Proudest Moment |
Having other people proud of my
ambitions and achievements. |
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| Favourite Food |
Aussie BBQ |
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| Holiday after the Games |
Somewhere warm, with surf and golf
courses. |
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| Favourite music |
Indie/rock/folk |
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| Dream car |
One that you do not have to fill up |
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| Greatest stack |
Definitely not great. Landing on top of my teammate in 2006 after performing an invert, fracturing his neck and slicing him up. |
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| Personal Motto |
Light weight...baby. |
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| Star Sign |
Taurus |
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| Coldest Temparature |
Around -35'C at the 2003 Junior World
Championships in NewFoundland Canada - brutal! |
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| Best gift you've received |
The support of my family |
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| I began this sport . . . |
when I was 8, skiing out of Perisher
Blue, Australia. |
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| Participation in other sports |
Cricket - State Championships, age 12
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| Famous relative |
Darby Ross (Grandfather) - Australian
Lawn Bowls Hall of Fame |
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| When I am not training/competing I am . . . |
Working, golfing, downloading,
entertaining, being entertained, eating,
sleeping, dreaming... |
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| If you could be another person who would it be? |
Tiger Woods or Kelly Slater |
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