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His father Jim Wescott was the Track and Cross Country coach at [[Colby College]]. He began [[snowboarding]] at age 10, but had also grown up skiing. In 1989, after competing in both sports for a few years, he stopped skiing to focus mainly on snowboarding. Wescott attended [[Carrabassett Valley Academy]] where he studied and trained with fellow Olympians [[Bode Miller]], [[Jeff Greenwood (snowboarder)|Jeff Greenwood]], [[Kirsten Clark]] and [[Emily Cook (skier)|Emily Cook]]. He started out in Sugarloaf USA in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.
In his Olympic debut, at the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] in [[Torino]], [[Italy]], Wescott won gold in the snowboard cross as the first Olympic champion in the event.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wescott grinds through to reach first 'cross gold |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter06/snowboard/columns/story?id=2332869 |publisher=ESPN The Magazine |author=Lindsay Berra |date=February 17, 2006 |accessdate=February 15, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Boss of the 'cross |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ME&p_theme=me&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10FD7EE540B5F220&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |publisher=Portland Press Herald |author=JENN MENENDEZ |date=February 17, 2006 |accessdate=February 15, 2010}}</ref> Having won gold, Wescott was invited to meet then president George W. Bush but turned down the offer, citing his opposition to Bush's foreign and domestic policies.<ref>http://www.theskichannel.com/news/skinews/20100227/Seth-Wescott-on-The-Colbert-Report-admits-he-chose-not-to-meet-former-President-Bush-at-the-last-Olympics</ref> At the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] in [[Vancouver, British Columbia]], [[Canada]], Wescott successfully defended his Olympic gold.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wescott of U.S. wins snowboard cross gold |url=http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35411325/ns/sports-olympic_sports/ |publisher=NBCSports.com |author= |date=February 15, 2010 |accessdate=February 15, 2010}}</ref> Wescott, who started off the race in fourth, slowly advanced throughout the field until the end, when he narrowly defeated hometown favorite [[Mike Robertson (snowboarder)|Mike Robertson]] on the final jump.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wescott grabs second snowboard cross gold |url=
Wescott co-owns The Rack, a restaurant and bar near [[Sugarloaf/USA|Sugarloaf]] that caters food and drinks to skiers and snowboarders.
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