# @utah2034 on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BfR_St0jyrJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34664665-utah2034-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-02-17T02:29:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 (@slcut2034) — https://gondola.cc/slcut2034

## Caption

🇺🇸@maddyolsen taught us how to send it with a smile at these 2018 Olympic Games. Here is her story as an aerial skier from Park City.

Madison Olsen never saw herself as an Olympian until she sat in the stands at Deer Valley watching the 2002 Games.
“I watched the aerial event with my parents, and that kind of sparked my Olympic dream,” the 22-year-old first-time Olympian said. “Being a Park City kid, I first started skiing moguls. But I was always drawn to the aerial aspect of moguls. I just wanted to go and do bigger and cooler tricks. … I grew up training at the Utah Olympic Park in the summertime.”
She trained alongside Olympic athletes, and it made those daydreams seem like real possibilities.
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## Tags

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