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🇺🇸We’ll be sharing exciting stories about our Utah Olympic athletes in the coming days! Our first story is on luge athlete @tmorris91 a US Army soldier from South Jordan. Taylor Morris knew he wanted to be an Olympian long before he knew anything about luge. “I remember watching Michael Johnson win the 200 and the 400 at the Atlanta Games,” said Morris, who made his first Olympic team through World Cup points this season. “I said, ‘This is what I want to do. I’m going to do everything in my power to do this.’ I changed a lot about my life to make that possible. When I saw Michael Johnson in a milk commercial, I started drinking more milk. I passed off my donuts to my little brother so I could be healthy like the athletes I saw. I was very determined to try and emulate these guys.” Morris was in the sixth grade when his father showed him a newspaper ad, inviting youngster to try a luge camp. Organizers blocked off a street near the University of Utah and let the youngsters slide on i...

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