# @utah2034 on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BfPaZUjj5Xb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34664666-utah2034-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-02-16T02:28:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 (@slcut2034) — https://gondola.cc/slcut2034

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🇺🇸Here is the fourth story on Utah Olympic athletes about our @rosiewbrennan cross-country skier from Park City. 📸: @usskiteam 
For Rosie Brennan, it was a combination of being exposed to the Games and her family’s decision to open their home to a Nordic combined athlete training in Park City.
She says “I decided I wanted to go to the Olympics at age 7 after watching the ‘96 gymnastics team take the gold and was further inspired by experiencing the Winter Olympics in my backyard in ‘02 but it wasn’t until I picked up a pair of cross country skis in ‘03 that I realized the sport that would take me there.”
Because the Park City schools took a three-week break, Brennan was able to immerse herself in everything Olympic.
“It was a blast,” she said of the 2002 Games and the festivities that accompanied them. “I loved every bit of it. I was in seventh grade, and both of my parents were working. My brother and I had to entertain ourselves, so we’d take the bus to Main Street and watch the big screen TV.”
Brennan wasn’t a skier when she and her family went to the cross-country events at Soldier Hollow.
“That was so fun that my mom went back to Smith’s and asked if they had more events,” she said. “It’s funny thinking back now because I barely knew what cross-country skiing was.”
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