Hello and welcome to my new website. Please use this site to track my progress and journey to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia! There will be constant updates and new pictures added all the time. Please feel free to check out the message board and send me a note.
I have been in the sport of luge for 15 years now and it is my passion and my life. I hope this website can be a way for you to get to know me and learn about my sport.
Thanks for all the support and enjoy the site!
The Fallen
Blog
When you watch the Olympics this February and see all the athletes performing, talking, and most likely smiling (why because they are at the Olympics), I want you to pause for a moment of silence for those who are not there.
For every Olympian competing at these Games there is at least one (most likely more) watching them from their home TV. The Olympics are surrounded by the ideals of friendship, fair play, sportsmanship and camaraderie. However, I can tell you, that to get there, is quite the opposite.
To get to the Olympics is War!
War with yourself, your track or arena or hill, your association, or any number of factors working against you from achieving your goals.
And on the road to the Olympics, like War, there are causalities.
These can come in the form of injury (an always present part of sport), not achieving your qualification standards, not winning the one race that you need to, or simply being told that you are not good enough to be on the team. All heart breaking, and all very real possibilities.
Now, so far, I have not been on this side of the fence in my Olympic career, but those close and not so close to me, have. As I write this the Roar of the Rings is going on, the ONE curling tournament that you must win to go to the games. The Luge team is only a weeks away form announcing their team, the Men’s Hockey team is weeks away from being announced, the Women’s Hockey team still has 2 girls to cut, and the Speed Skaters are getting ready for their Christmas time Olympics trials. What I am trying to say is that everyone hoping to be in Vancouver in February is fighting like hell right now to make sure that they are.
And yes it is normal to have selections so close to the Games, how else are you to choose who will be the best in two months than to do it now.
How can the average person relate to the fallen? It’s quite easy. Just think how you would feel to have worked at something for, on average, 10 years or more of your life, and have it all come crashing down on you just as it is about to be complete. It happens more often than not in the business and personal world, something that most people are involved in.
It’s like being told, “you’re not good enough”. How rough is that?! Thanks for your effort, but it was not good enough. No matter how much smoke they blow up your ass about how much you contributed and how hard you worked, it comes down to the hard reality that you just were not good enough.
But that is what makes becoming an Olympian so special, that fact that not everyone can do it. Again, it’s much like War, not everyone makes it out, not because a lack of effort and more to do with….well that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
Hello and welcome to my new website. Please use this site to track my progress and journey to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia! There will be constant updates and new pictures added all the time. Please feel free to check out the message board and send me a note.
