U.S. Olympian Hometown Spotlight: Nick Goepper's Lawrenceburg, Indiana

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Olympian slopestyle skier Nick Goepper at Perfect North Slopes in Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Perfect North SlopesNick Goepper at Indiana's Perfect North Slopes, the "mountain" where he learned his trade.

Olympian: Nick Goepper
Event: Slopestyle
Hometown: Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Population: 5,042

The gold medal favorite in slopestyle, a new freestyle skiing discipline making its Winter Games debut in Sochi, hails from the Hidden Valley area of Lawrenceburg, a city on the Ohio River in Southeast Indiana nicknamed "Whisky City" after a Seagram's Distillery in town.

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