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On Saturday some of the elite skiers who were in Anchorage coached at a youth ski clinic at the Hilltop Ski Area sponsored mainly by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Alaska Chapter, as a vehicle to educate young athletes about, as you prob...

On Saturday some of the elite skiers who were in Anchorage coached at a youth ski clinic at the Hilltop Ski Area sponsored mainly by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Alaska Chapter, as a vehicle to educate young athletes about, as you prob...

On Saturday some of the elite skiers who were in Anchorage coached at a youth ski clinic at the Hilltop Ski Area sponsored mainly by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Alaska Chapter, as a vehicle to educate young athletes about, as you prob...

In my Rogers Park Elementary School class the students were working on statistics this winter. I was away racing, but I keep in touch with Ms. Price & suggested that they do a project looking at the statistics section of the FIS website. FIS does a gre...

In my Rogers Park Elementary School class the students were working on statistics this winter. I was away racing, but I keep in touch with Ms. Price & suggested that they do a project looking at the statistics section of the FIS website. FIS does a gre...

In my Rogers Park Elementary School class the students were working on statistics this winter. I was away racing, but I keep in touch with Ms. Price & suggested that they do a project looking at the statistics section of the FIS website. FIS does a gre...

In my Rogers Park Elementary School class the students were working on statistics this winter. I was away racing, but I keep in touch with Ms. Price & suggested that they do a project looking at the statistics section of the FIS website. FIS does a gre...

It happens so rarely that you perform better than you had expected or hoped. Usually I demand more from my body than it can give me. There aren't too many days when you laugh when a teammate tells you your place because you're both happy and unsure tha...

It happens so rarely that you perform better than you had expected or hoped. Usually I demand more from my body than it can give me. There aren't too many days when you laugh when a teammate tells you your place because you're both happy and unsure tha...

It happens so rarely that you perform better than you had expected or hoped. Usually I demand more from my body than it can give me. There aren't too many days when you laugh when a teammate tells you your place because you're both happy and unsure tha...

It happens so rarely that you perform better than you had expected or hoped. Usually I demand more from my body than it can give me. There aren't too many days when you laugh when a teammate tells you your place because you're both happy and unsure tha...

The 2009 World Championship courses in Liberec, CZE.There are two things which drive an obsession for competition-- success and failure. It seems a paradox that the two extremes of the performance spectrum lead to the same outcome. Really, the worst ra...

The 2009 World Championship courses in Liberec, CZE.There are two things which drive an obsession for competition-- success and failure. It seems a paradox that the two extremes of the performance spectrum lead to the same outcome. Really, the worst ra...

The 2009 World Championship courses in Liberec, CZE.There are two things which drive an obsession for competition-- success and failure. It seems a paradox that the two extremes of the performance spectrum lead to the same outcome. Really, the worst ra...

The 2009 World Championship courses in Liberec, CZE.There are two things which drive an obsession for competition-- success and failure. It seems a paradox that the two extremes of the performance spectrum lead to the same outcome. Really, the worst ra...

In the Piazzo d'Oro cafe on the edge of the Liberec town plaza the overlaying of Eastern European history and the lycra-clad world of skiing makes an odd juxtaposition. Directly outside my cafe window looms the elaborate stone facade of the Liberec tow...

In the Piazzo d'Oro cafe on the edge of the Liberec town plaza the overlaying of Eastern European history and the lycra-clad world of skiing makes an odd juxtaposition. Directly outside my cafe window looms the elaborate stone facade of the Liberec tow...

In the Piazzo d'Oro cafe on the edge of the Liberec town plaza the overlaying of Eastern European history and the lycra-clad world of skiing makes an odd juxtaposition. Directly outside my cafe window looms the elaborate stone facade of the Liberec tow...

In the Piazzo d'Oro cafe on the edge of the Liberec town plaza the overlaying of Eastern European history and the lycra-clad world of skiing makes an odd juxtaposition. Directly outside my cafe window looms the elaborate stone facade of the Liberec tow...

While I was in Rossland training before coming over to Europe, Ellis & I, along with some of the rosslanders, spent some time discussing technique. It was good to have some technique discussions that were more egalitarian than the normal coach-athlete ...