Word: skier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Staff writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu...
TIME: At the last Winter Games, [Kenyan cross-country skier] Philip Boit got all the attention. Now it's you. Menyoli: He's still there. He's doing well. He's now like a veteran and nobody wants to talk to him anymore. If I go to Turin [for the Winter Games in 2006], they won't want to talk to me. they'll want to talk to the next...
...interested in skiing? Menyoli: Way back in the 1980s. I thought it was cool. It was the Calgary Games that I think they had on TV. Then I tried it about five years ago after I came to Milwaukee. People count those five years like I was a real skier or something. I wasn't. It was just for fun. I always do it for fun, even now. In those five years, I probably skied 50 times. All those years, I was just putzing around. I wasn't serious. This is serious. This is the first time I have done...
...only on roller skis, a piece of metal with two wheels at the end. The last 2% was when I was racing. That's when I have skied on snow, when I was racing for qualification in Alaska and Canada. It's just terrible. I'm such an amateur skier and I have to deal with no snow! It's tough...
...Staff writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu...