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"  &amp;quot;Puppy and I are just chilling and having a relaxing afternoon,&amp;quot; Lindsey Jacobellis tells me breezily on a phone call from Colorado. It&amp;#039;s a far cry from the media chaos surrounding her Olympic peers\u2014many of whom are currently in New York hitting the TV and news circuit, fresh from the Sochi Games. But, as I talk more with the snowboarder\u2014a three-time Olympian with a silver medal under her belt\u2014it becomes clear that this decision to separate herself from the buzz is much more her speed. Jacobellis has had her share of drama and pressure, more so, even, than many of her fellow athletes. She won her silver medal in Turin at the 2006 Olympics, an accomplishment to say the least. But during her final run in the snowboard cross event, she fell, settled for silver, and the media never let her forget it\u2014especially as she went on to her next two Olympics. And while she still didn&amp;#039;t get the gold in Sochi, Jacobellis did bring home an incredible souvenir of her time there: one of the stray puppies that have become a viral sensation since skier Gus Kenworthy first announced his decision to take home five pups in need. Read on as she opens up about the newest member of her family, the complicated adoption process, her slope-friendly beauty routine, and how she learned to let the pressure go and make this her favorite Olympics yet. Related: Gracie Gold&amp;#039;s 5 Best Beauty Tips This was your third Olympics. Do you have a favorite experience out of all of them?  I have to say this last one was the best of the three. It was a very challenging Olympics for me to go through in &amp;#039;06. Even though I did come out with a medal, the media felt like it was tarnished. You know, you never know whether [a win] is going to happen or not\u2014it&amp;#039;s just a crazy sport. It didn&amp;#039;t end up happening\u2014not for the lack of trying or commitment, it just didn&amp;#039;t end up working out. And it&amp;#039;s such a stressful environment because there&amp;#039;s so much going on.  How do you feel like your medal was tarnished?  Well, it&amp;#039;s just that they thought that I didn&amp;#039;t do a good enough job, and it was a hard thing for a 19-year-old [who just] made a mistake. I thought they were a little bit harsh. It&amp;#039;s taken me a long time to move on from that, and to actually be proud of all the accomplishments in my career.  It&amp;#039;s such an accomplishment to get a silver medal! When I watch a lot of the events, people get so wrapped up in athletes just getting the gold medal and completely forget that it&amp;#039;s such a great achievement to medal at all.   It&amp;#039;s great at the opening ceremonies because every athlete is there and together and they have something in common. They&amp;#039;ve all set out to drastically change their life to get where they are, and once everyone starts the competition it becomes about the medal count and which country is doing better, instead of this celebration of coming together for these Games and this time of peace. It quickly changes.  What is it like to deal with the pressure of being a favorite?  I&amp;#039;ve still stuck with this sport forever, and I started being very consistent. Coming back from my injury, I was able to win a couple of events before going into this season, earning my spot on the Olympic team. Which is good\u2014I didn&amp;#039;t get a discretion spot; I actually earned my right to be on the team. It&amp;#039;s a very tough process, and it&amp;#039;s very overwhelming to be a part of. It&amp;#039;s so much going on and even the lowest [opponent] is your competition because there are less people. In the World Cup we have up to 50, 60 women compete at that level. In the Olympics we barely have 24. It does come down to some variables [which] make it harder to get past that heat round. But in another sense, there&amp;#039;s so much that can go wrong, apparently, and it&amp;#039;s very unpredictable. But it does really well as a spectator sport.  Where does your career go from here? Is there another Olympics in your future?  It&amp;#039;s too hard to say. The Olympics just ended; four years is so far to look into the future. There are definitely goals [in] that direction, but it seems pretty impractical to make a decision right here and now. I did that a few years ago\u2014I planned out a whole season, and then I tore my ACL and nothing was relevant. I see myself finishing out the rest of this season and enjoying my summer and I&amp;#039;m also finally going up to Alaska to do some big mountain stuff with Seth Wescott. I&amp;#039;m going to open up a new avenue and a new section of industry that I haven&amp;#039;t been privy to because I&amp;#039;ve been on the workout schedule for years and years running.  You have a new puppy! How did you first learn about the stray dogs in Sochi?  I had been hearing that there was a problem over there [with the stray dogs] and you&amp;#039;d just see it on Facebook. I&amp;#039;ve been to Chile, Argentina, and other third world countries that have stray dog populations, but it seems like there were just a lot of puppies roaming around. And that was just very hard and distracting to be witnessing that.   What made you decide to adopt one?  There was a pack of dogs that was &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; by our hotel\u2014the workers had adopted these dogs, and [because] they were taking care of them, a lot of them [were] socialized. There were some that were definitely very nervous around humans and didn&amp;#039;t really want to get any attention from them, so they just wanted to get food. But this one guy jumped on my bag as soon as I was rolling my luggage into the hotel, and I didn&amp;#039;t realize it because he was so small. Then I noticed him and it was kind of a shock, like, &amp;quot;Man, that&amp;#039;s the last thing I need, looking at puppies right now.&amp;quot; My coach said that was going to be a very challenging thing for me.  One of the first nights I was so jetlagged that I was up at two in the morning. I thought, people always say that they&amp;#039;re going to do something and it doesn&amp;#039;t really happen because there&amp;#039;s not enough time or enough information to work with before we make these decisions. So I started to look up what the procedures would be to bring a dog into the US. And there wasn&amp;#039;t a quarantine out for animals, so it seemed pretty easy to get a dog into the States. I asked the hotel, and they just asked me &amp;quot;Why are you doing this; why do this now? It seems silly to take a stray dog.&amp;quot; And I didn&amp;#039;t really have an answer, [except that] he deserves to have a good life and not to be hungry. And who knows, maybe this could start something\u2014maybe not in Russia, but it could [gain] worldwide awareness. It just starts with one thing; with one movement. [In the end], it turned out to be a pretty big process.  But it&amp;#039;s definitely worth it! They told me &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to be around $600; you really want to do this?&amp;quot; I was like, &amp;quot;Absolutely! That&amp;#039;s not the end of the world\u2014that&amp;#039;s like what a puppy normally costs in the States.&amp;quot; The back-up plan was to get him healthy enough to get into a shelter, so he would at least stand a better chance to be adopted. But now I was starting to get attached to him and feed him, and he was showing up at the hotel every day. So it was starting to solidify the decision that he would go home with me. And then I arranged for another dog\u2014a female, one-year-old Dachshund Chihuahua\u2014to get carried home by one of our doctors to one of my friends in Park City. So you have your puppy now, too? What&amp;#039;s his name?  Sochi.  Of course! Moving on to beauty, because you have awesome hair\u2026how do you take care of it?  A lot of leave-in conditioner; that&amp;#039;s pretty much the trick. I use a pretty big comb in the shower. I never brush my hair when it&amp;#039;s dry, because that&amp;#039;s really damaging, also it causes crazy frizzing. Just intense moisture because my hair tends to be on the drier side, and living in mountain environments where there&amp;#039;s a lot of hard water and intense minerals in the water, it tends to dry it out. So when I can get to a salon, I tend to get a clear coat on it just to give it another barrier of strength.  I&amp;#039;m sure your skin gets exposed to the elements, too.  I always have sunscreen on my face, especially when I&amp;#039;m snowboarding, but usually when I step outside I have some sort of SPF on my face. In the summertime I use a Shiseido Sun Protection Foundation stick. I just cram it on my face. It sticks better than zinc, so when I surf, I [put it where I normally] get really burned, like right under my eye and the bridge of my nose and my forehead. I look ridiculous but at least I&amp;#039;m not getting burnt!  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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