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...wasn't improving," he says. "I don't know if it was due to being unhappy with the team environment or a lack of maturity. It was probably a number of things." Whatever the cause, Schlopy took extreme action. He quit the team and joined the World Pro Ski Tour...
...skiing has a pro tour, although it's more like a minor-league, ski-bum tour. To go from the luxury of the national team--where coaches, technicians and handlers cater to an athlete's every need--to the penury of the pro tour--which features X Games-inspired short-course, head-to-head races--was a shock, one Schlopy thought he needed. "The sums of money are so little that you have to do well if you want to keep going. It was a total leap of faith." Schlopy earned less than $100,000 in three seasons, which went...
...With renewed confidence, Schlopy set his sights on Salt Lake City. U.S. ski team coaches were skeptical, but if Schlopy could get his world ranking into the top 60 in one event or the top 100 in two, he would make the team. With no money or sponsors, Schlopy borrowed $25,000 from a friend, bought a minivan and started chasing races across North America to get his ranking up. He stayed with friends, friends of friends and, when absolutely necessary, splurged on $19 hotel rooms. The races were in dismal little towns, and Schlopy got off to a terrible...
...Issue ? Topics include George Harrison and the Beatles, cloning and the U.S. Ski Team...
...steaks with Mike and E.J. and their friends Rob and Lori Borrazzo. The two couples spent much of the meal reminiscing about vacations they had taken together. There was a trip to the Dominican Republic, where Mike got sick from the water and danced by himself, and the winter ski house upstate that Rob trashed--and Mike cleaned up--back in their bachelor days. As the evening wore on, the bartender, recognizing Mike from his picture, sent over round after round of beers. Then the talk turned, as all New York conversations eventually do, to Sept...