Ted Ligety is one of the greatest US ski racers in history. He’s won two Olympic gold medals and is a five-time world champion who’s won 25 World Cup events. He’s a legend… but it wasn’t always easy for the late-blooming Ted. In part 1 of the podcast, we talk about finding skiing, being bullied, growing into his body, Tanner Hall, The Winter School, making the US Ski Team, and much more. World Champion Felix Neureuther asks the Inappropriate Questions
Ted Ligety Show Notes:
3:00: How hard it was to watch racing and what he would do to change ski racing, and NASTAR
14:00: Coming from a non-ski family, finding racing, not making the team, figuring out carving skis, and how that shaped his technique.
20:00: Rollerblade: They invented inline skating and make the best skates on the planet.
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23:00: World Cup in Park City, injected courses, confidence, the Newschool movement, being the small kid and being bullied, and how it hardened him.
29:00: The Winter School, Tanner Hall, figuring out speed, his senior year, and the 2002 Olympics
41:00: High Cascade Snowboard Camp: The legendary snowboard camp
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43:00: Making the US Ski D Team, his first World Cup, and partying
53:00: Is it cutthroat when you’re racing for money, moving up on the US team, bumping people off the team, and hazing
63:00: Beaver Creek dominance, making the Olympic Team, and money
69:00: Inappropriate Questions with Felix Neureuther