2010 Winter Olympics
From news on athletes, tickets, facilities and the border, Adventure writer Craig Hill takes you inside the ramp up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Just 175 miles north of Tacoma, the Vancouver, B.C., games will likely be the closest the Olympics ever come to the South Sound region. Reach Craig via e-mail at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com.
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A look inside the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C.
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Posted by Craig Hill @ 05:12:10 pm

The 2009 U.S. Alpine Ski Team named it's 2009 World Cup roster today. Here it is:

A TEAM
Men
Jimmy Cochran (5/29/81; Keene, NH; Cochran's/Mount Mansfield Ski & Snowboard Club)
Ted Ligety (8/31/84; Park City, UT; Park City Ski Team)
Scott Macartney (1/19/78; Crystal Mountain, WA; Crystal Mountain Alpine Club)
Steven Nyman (2/12/82; Provo, UT; Park City Ski Team/Sundance)
Marco Sullivan (4/27/80; Squaw Valley, CA; Squaw Valley Ski Team)

Women
Stacey Cook (7/3/84; Mammoth, CA; Mammoth Mountain Ski Team)
Julia Mancuso (9/9/84; Olympic Valley, CA; Squaw Valley Ski Team)
Kaylin Richardson (9/28/84; Edina, MN; Team Gilboa)
Resi Stiegler (11/14/85; Jackson Hole, WY; Park City Ski Team/Jackson Hole)
Lindsey Vonn (10/18/84; Vail, CO; Ski & Snowboard Club Vail/Buck Hill Ski Team)

B TEAM
Men
Erik Fisher (3/21/85; Middleton, ID; Bogus Basin)
Tommy Ford (3/20/89; Bend, OR; Mount Bachelor Ski Education Foundation)
Kevin Francis (6/13/82; Bend, OR; Mount Bachelor Ski Education Foundation)
Tim Jitloff (1/11/85; Reno, NV; Park City Ski Team)
Tim Kelley (5/20/86; Starksboro, VT; Cochran's/Mount Mansfield Ski & Snowboard Club)
TJ Lanning (8/27/84; Park City, UT; Park City Ski Team)
Cody Marshall (11/15/82; Pittsfield, VT; Burke Mountain Academy)
Erik Schlopy (8/21/72; Park City, UT; Park City Ski Team)
Jeremy Transue (6/1/83; Hunter, NY; Green Mountain Valley School)
Andrew Weibrecht (2/10/86; Lake Placid, NY; New York Ski Education Foundation)

Women
Hailey Duke (9/17/85; Boise, ID; Park City Ski Education Foundation/McCall Ski Team)
Jessica Kelley (10/5/82; Starksboro, VT; Cochran's/Mount Mansfield Ski & Snowboard Club)
Chelsea Marshall (8/14/86; Pittsfield, VT; Green Mountain Valley School)
Megan McJames (9/24/87; Park City, UT; Park City Ski Education Foundation)
Sarah Schleper (2/19/79; Vail, CO; Ski & Snowboard Club Vail)
Leanne Smith (5/28/87; Conway, NH; Mt. Washington Valley Ski Team)

C TEAM
Men
Chris Beckmann (10/9/86; Guilderland, NY; New York Ski Education Foundation)
Will Brandenburg (1/1/87; Spokane, WA; Schweitzer Alpine Racing)
Travis Ganong (7/14/88; Squaw Valley, CA; Squaw Valley Ski Team)
Tague Thorson (1/9/85; Park City, UT; Romark Ski Academy)

Women
Sterling Grant (6/1/87; Amery, WI; Buck Hill Ski Team)
Keely Kelleher (8/12/84; Big Sky, MT; Rowmark Ski Academy)
Julia Littman (7/21/84; Vail, CO; Ski & Snowboard Club Vail)
Laurenne Ross (8/17/88; Klamath Falls, OR; Mount Bachelor Ski Education Foundation)
Kiley Staples (2/2/89; Park City, UT; Rowmark Ski Academy)

U.S. Alpine Development Team
Men
Michael Ankeny (1/17/91; Deephaven, MN; Buck Hill Ski Team)
Nick Daniels (4/5/91; Tahoe City, CA; Squaw Valley Ski Team)
Colby Granstrom (9/21/90; Lake Stevens, WA; Mission Ridge Ski Education Foundation)
Will Gregorak (9/30/90; Longmont, CO; Ski and Snowboard Club Vail)
Nolan Kasper (3/27/89; Warren, VT; Burke Mountain Academy)
Wiley Maple (5/25/90; Aspen, CO; Aspen Valley Ski Club)

Women
Felicia Byers (12/17/91; Sandy, UT; Snowbird Sports Education Foundation)
Julia Ford (3/30/90; Plymouth, NH; Holderness Ski Team)
Kayla Fry (5/1/90; Reno, NV; Team Savage Ski Racing)
Alice McKennis (8/19/89; Glenwood Springs, CO; Rowmark Ski Academy)
Jennie VanWagner (6/22/89; Traverse City, MI; Rowmark Ski Academy)

Reserve
Caroline Lalive (8/10/79; Steamboat Springs, CO; Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club)

Posted by Craig Hill @ 09:19:07 am

Here's a Q&A with mogul skier Shannon Bahrke courtesy of Juliann Fritz of the U.S. Ski Team:

Shannon Bahrke (Tahoe City, CA) is by no means your average moguls skier. The Olympic silver medalist may seem like she runs bumps all day long, but with a passion for things like coffee, race cars, music and the color pink, Bahrke turns the ordinary into the extraordinary in a way only she knows how.

So, you were out for the 2008 season with an injury, but now you're back. What's your favorite part of being back with the team?
My favorite thing about being back is being with the Team. We really have such an amazing team and it's really fun to see those guys in the gym working hard and everyone joking around and having a good time. Sometimes the season can be a little stressful, but it's nice to be back with everyone and see their smiling faces.

You're obviously a highly decorated athlete. Where do you keep all your awards?
I usually give all the big ones to my mom and she hangs them around the house. But, my silver medal, my uncle made me a beautiful box to hang it on the wall but I am so afraid that if someone breaks in and sees it in the box, they'll take it. So, I am looking into getting a safe to put it in, but we have it at my house and we look at it all the time.

You recently started your own coffee company Silver Bean Coffee Co. Where did the idea for that come from?
My boyfriend Matt is a "super-entrepreneur." He started his own business and sold it. We've always known we wanted to start our own business together and one day we were in a coffee shop hanging out after a day of skiing and we were talking about how much fun skiing is and our biggest jumps and kickers and I kind of sat back and thought, "this is such a cool fun thing to be in a coffee shop with your friends' and it hit me that maybe we could start up a coffee company. We researched if it was viable and it turned out that you can make a lot of money in coffee, so that was our catalyst.

We hear you have another outlet for adrenalin outside of skiing that involves racing cars. Care to expand?
If I made a little more money, I would do that every weekend. It is just the most fun thing. I never thought that I was into car racing, but a couple of our friends are from Detroit and wanted us to come out to the track and I thought it was dumb but when they finally talked me into it I fell in love with it and have been hooked ever since. It's so expensive to go out there so you have to moderate it. If we want to skip an electrical bill, we can go car racing.

Is it true that you can play the trumpet?
I played in a symphonic band and a jazz band and a wind ensemble. Yes, I was a total band geek and I loved it and I miss it so much. I know that I can still read music, but I need a refresher. It was a big part of my life.

So, you've had purple hair and now it's got a bright shade of pink in it. How did that happen?
A year ago I was in my hairdresser's shop and said I was really bored of being a blonde, what can I do? And she said that she could put purple in my hair. So I did a little strip, then a little more and a little more and then I got bored with purple and I went with pink. I've had pink for about a year now and I really like it and I really want to do my whole head, but I don't think I'd be brave enough to do that.

Is there any circumstance under which you would dye your whole head pink?
Oh - if I won a gold medal at World Championships or at the Olympics I would dye my whole head pink.

You know we're going to hold you to that.
I know. If I win, I will definitely do that.

Your brother Scotty is also on the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team. What's that dynamic like?
That's another thing, if Scotty ever wins a medal at the Olympics, I'll dye my whole head pink. I think our dynamic is so amazing. I think it was hard for Scotty growing up because I did have a lot of accomplishments, but it has been so amazing for me to see him come through the ranks and be just as good. For him to be in a field of such great aerialists with Speedy [Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (Boise, ID)] and St. Onge [Ryan St. Onge (Winter Park, CO)], to be ranked the highest aerialist is huge. I don't know if he would answer that question any differently, but I think we have such a good relationship and I just love him so much. I look up to him and I think we have a really good thing going. I want to be walking into the Opening Ceremonies in the 2010 Olympics with him - that would be the coolest thing ever.

It would be even cooler if you both had a whole head of pink hair.
I don't know if he would be up for that. I would do it!

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