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MPG • JANUARY • 2017
NICHOLAS ROMANO / MOTOCROSS
The task of winning one championship, regardless of sport, age division, or skill level, is difficult within itself. To win, on your sports biggest stage, dealing with the toughest of opponents? An extremely tedious task. But to sweep, both of your respective classifications, and claim both titles of champion? Almost unheard of, yet, prior to his departure from base camp, Romano wrote down his goals for the 2017 Winter Olympics, and that’s exactly what they included. He knew how strenuous these motos would be to piece together, but he felt with the amount of confidence he carried, his training regimen, and overall skillset, that he could check these notion’s off the to do list, and come away a happy man. For heat number one, it was Culloden, Georgia’s Casey Cochran, looking to make a statement. And oh boy did he ever, throwing the machine around, as if it were a small handheld toy. Scrubbing over each of the backside step up’s, he was absolutely pinned through the roller section each lap. He would begin to pull from Collin Allen, who was second, and Logan Best,