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This clip was filmed at Lake Placid, but Ryan St. Onge frequently jumps at Utah Olympic Park during the winter and summer.

The following is an excerpt from an article originally published at NYTimes.com: Caleb Campbell received curious glances and furrowed eyebrows — just like other athletes before him. He is the latest in the lineage of football players turned bobsledders. The Detroit Lions selected Campbell, a safety from Army, in the seventh round of last year’s college draft. [...]

The following is an excerpt from an article originally posted at DeseretNews.com: Orem native and Mountain View High alum Noelle Pikus-Pace is a world champion skeleton athlete favored by many to win a medal in the 2006 Olympic Games. Then in a freak accident in October of 2005, she was hit by a sled and suffered [...]

The following is an excerpt from an article originally published at sltrib.com: Zach Lund’s hamstring held up a lot better than the weather. Lund finished fifth in the first World Cup skeleton race of the season at the Utah Olympic Park on Thursday, despite the lingering leg injury that has been limiting his training for [...]

The following is an excerpt from an article originally published at ParkRecord.com: Two soldiers who were wounded in combat will spend five days in December vacationing in Park City. The trips came through the efforts of Christmas Can Cure and the Wounded Warrior Project. Fountain Green resident Bradley Chidester, Joseph Perez, of Logandale, Nev., and the men’s [...]

The following is an excerpt from an article published at FirstTracksOnline.com: The eyes of the world will be on Vancouver this February for the Olympic Winter Games. But ski and snowboarding athletes who hope to participate already began scrapping and fighting their way to Olympic Team spots beginning in September. The final Olympic ski and snowboarding [...]

From TeamUSA.org: The bobsled and skeleton 2009-2010 World Cup season will kick off in Park City, Utah from November 9-14th [at Utah Olympic Park] following two weeks of international training on the 2010 Olympic course in Whistler, British Columbia. “The U.S. team is very fortunate to start the season off in North America where we expect to [...]

The following was originally posted at CrossCountrySkier.com: The culmination of four years of determination and drive, training and competing and successes and trials is now a mere 100 days away for Vancouver Bound U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding athletes. Now, with the 2010 Olympic Winter Games on the horizon, athletes have taken up shop around [...]

The following is an article originally The Observer: “Don’t be afraid: you can’t get hurt in the air,” are the parting words of my coach, Matt, as I climb the ominous wooden staircase like a felon to the gallows. “Afraid” is a criminally overused word. Most of us are guilty of misapplying it to situations where, [...]

The following is an excerpt from an article originally posted at ParkRecord.com: “Utah really does have the greatest snow on Earth.” Take it from someone who knows: Jeff Brueningsen, who recently completed his quest to ski all seven continents, attests that the state’s tourism slogan is true. His feat might not sound extraordinary for the jet-setting crowd [...]