Career
Wild originally competed for the United States, but after the 2010 Winter Olympics, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association shut down its alpine snowboarding program According to a 2014 story by Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports, Wild had been viewed by United States snowboarding officials "as an enfant terrible, someone who didn"t understand alpine"s place in the snowboarding power structure. Halfpipe is king, with slopestyle creeping up in importance, and snowboardcross racing third." 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
In 2013 Wild was appointed Strategic Director of the Watch factory Raketa, to experiment the application of winning sportive strategies to the business world.
Had I stayed in the United States, I"d probably be still sitting at home, doing some ordinary job, doing something banal, and not interesting. I always wanted something different.
Some may think, "This guy still stays American.". And that is not true! I am not some American guy who decided it would be easier to get to Olympics in a country where snowboarding is undeveloped.
I have chosen the harder path to success, and I have walked it all the way.".
