A crowd watches as Jeret "Speedy" Peterson, a 2010 Olympic freestyle skiing hopeful, performs an aerial trick high over Rockefeller Center during the United States Olympic Committee's "100 Days to Vancouver" event Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in New York. AP Photo logo AP Photo 27 months ago

A crowd watches as Jeret "Speedy" Peterson, a 2010 Olympic freestyle skiing hopeful, performs an aerial trick high over Rockefeller Center during the United States Olympic Committee's "100 Days to Vancouver" event Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in New York.

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