[2] At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, he won a bronze medal in parallel giant.

"[2] One of Wild's former coaches indicated that before its closure, the alpine snowboarding program had a budget of $135,000, a fraction of the funding needed for an internationally competitive team.

[3] Wild opted to leave the country after he married Russian snowboarder Alena Zavarzina in 2011.

I am not some American guy who decided it would be easier to get to Olympics in a country where snowboarding is undeveloped.

"[4] Wild received more than $400,000 in bonuses from the Russian government for winning two gold medals at the 2014 Sochi Games.