Nearly every Olympic skier will get hurt at some point, sometimes from speeding up an icy slope at 80 miles per hour. Advances in orthopedic medicine allow many to find their way back. Source link
You can be forgiven if you think Jamaica’s flag bearer is a sled. When it comes to the Winter Games and the tropical island nation, almost everyone thinks of tobogganing from the 1988 Olympics that inspired the Disney movie “Cool Runnings.” But Benjamin Alexander is no bobsleigh. A 38-year-old alpine skier who spent ten years …
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So how did you and Miss Gerardi team up? It was February or March 2019 and we both did the 1000m vertical ski race. Hillary won and I came in second. We were waiting for the awards ceremony after the race and my partner Ben heard him talk about how he wanted to set a …
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