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Aspen's Chris Klug joins Hall of Fame today |
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Friday, November 04, 2011 07:33 |
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Aspen’s Chris Klug, the three-time Olympian and liver transplant recipient, will be inducted into the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame tonight, where he’ll be honored for his groundbreaking career and inspirational life.
“It’s a great honor,” Klug told the Aspen Daily News on Thursday. “I’m really excited about it. It’s been fun to reflect on the last 30 years.”
The induction ceremony is tonight (Friday, Nov. 4) in Broomfield.
Klug said he’s spent time in recent days reminiscing with his mother, Aspen High counselor Kathy Klug, his father, Aspen Square general manager Warren Klug, and his wife, Melissa, about his life on snow.
Some of his fondest memories, he said, are of his days snowboarding in the early ’80s as the sport was emerging, when he duct-taped Moon Boots to a crude Burton board and schlepped to races in his parents’ Wagoneer.
Read more about Chris Klug's life as a pioneering snowboarder and about the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame ceremony at the Aspen Daily News website.
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