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Written by Brian Olsen
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 18:01 |
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Location: Salt Lake City, UT
There are, in fact, crazy people in the world. Some are certifiably suffering from psychological disorders. There are some, however, who, because of their strong attachment to their beliefs, must reconcile the difference between those beliefs and reality by conjuring up stories of falsehood and conspiracy.
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Written by Brian Olsen
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 15:57 |
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Location: Heber City, UT
I think the most important thing for a retiring athlete is to have a plan in place for how the transition process will work. I was always afraid that life without sport would be no life at all. I felt like the coaches and administrators around us instilled in our teams a misplaced fear of the outside world. For the longest time, I based much of my self-worth upon how I was doing in training and my competition results, even though I’ve always had activities, like school, on the side to compensate for rough periods. In the end, I feel like sport to some degree teaches athletes to judge people based upon their results, whether they’re competitive results or metrics from other fields, such as business or general popularity.
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Written by Brian Olsen
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005 00:00 |
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Location: Beitostølen, NOR
In most sports, teammates are like family; you can neither choose them nor divorce them. For some reason, that idea does not have any bearing in U.S. Biathlon. Our entire National Team is made up of a dozen people, but those dozen have not come together in one place since last season.
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Written by Brian Olsen
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Saturday, 25 June 2005 00:00 |
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Location: Heber City, UT
Two weeks ago, I arrived here in the Wasatch Valley of northern Utah. The trip here was convoluted. From Bangor to Newark, I was to travel on the first ever flight of a certain airline. When I arrived in the gate area for the flight, there was a party going on in celebration of this “momentous” occasion. Television cameras were fixated on glowing airport and airline officials, gleaming with pride that the Bangor area had grown substantially enough to be serviced by yet another airline.
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Written by Brian Olsen
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Saturday, 20 March 2004 00:00 |
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Location: Jericho, VT
Wispy flakes of snow crystals fall through the sieve of a pine tree as gusts of wind blow through green limbs that contrast greatly with the gray landscape. The cold wind is comforting, even on chilled skin. It is clean and refreshing. Small blizzards can be heard developing distantly in the forest when the wind picks up velocity to cause the snow bound in the branches of the pines to fall in a large white swoop.
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