Outdoor Sport

It’s easy to feel lucky or unlucky in life and as such to place blame on extraneous factors.  After winning a bronze medal in the team event at the World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy, I felt the momentum building and wanted to carry it into our final events.  The morning of the final individual event I felt great – mentally aware and acute, physically strong, and as pain-free as a child.  It was going to be a great day…

I was the 29th skier to ski jump in the round and I executed my best jump of my year.  I turned to look and I was in third place!  With only 25 skiers left to go, I felt that I was going to put myself into contention in the cross-country race for my first individual podium of the season.   I think the smile showed as I walked past media, friends and family and they asked questions thinking the same good thoughts as I.  Then five skiers later, the wind changed.  Massively....

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Follow up!

I planned on recapping after the championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy, were over but after an amazing day for our team on Sunday I need to share.

In my last post I spoke about predominantly two things: the ability to peak at the right time and the importance of performing at the biggest events.  This past Sunday both of these things came to the test and my teammates showed their mettle.  We have had a solid year as a team with our youngest members, Bryan and Taylor Fletcher, earning....  (read the rest at TeamUSA.org)

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Inline

One Year to GO!

Here we are less than a calendar year to go until the Opening Ceremony in Sochi for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.  The anniversary was celebrated on the Today show and across media the world over and yet our one-year out party has just started in Val di Fiemme, Italy.  The year out show is more about the feeling – the awareness and challenge that comes with the biggest events of the season. 

Annually, we compete in over 20 World Cup competitions and the rigors of so many events spreads the urgency over month, and form comes and goes, but, like the Olympic Games, the World Championships focuses the athletes attention....

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