🇺🇸Here is the thirteenth story on Utah Olympic athletes featuring
@will_rhoads a ski jumper from Park City. 📸:
@will_rhoads @lukasdimtry @usskiteam
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Will Rhoads, who has won the U.S. National Ski Jump Championship three consecutive years, admits that if his hometown of Park City hadn’t hosted several Olympic events in 2002, he might have remained one of those Americans unaware of ski jumping’s majestic beauty and mental challenge.
“I remember seeing it on TV,” he said from his apartment in Slovenia where the team spent nearly seven months training. “I was kind of blown away…”
Rhoads and his two sisters took up ski jumping at Utah Olympic Park thanks to developmental programs that were created in the wake of the 2002 Games.
“Right after the Games ended, they built some small hills, and I was really excited about the whole thing.”
Even before Will made the team, his family bought their tickets to South Korea, and they were in the crowd when he qualified for his ski jumping final, fin...