# @utah2034 on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BfCjWN3DYu5
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34664669-utah2034-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-02-11T02:36:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 (@slcut2034) — https://gondola.cc/slcut2034

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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 inline skate luge sleds.
Out of more than 1,000 children, about 40 were invited to a one-week on-ice camp in either Park City or Lake Placid.
He participated in the Park City camp and was one of the handful invited back to participate in a developmental camp. “At 11 years old, we were driving him up to Park City six days a week so he could go train,” said his father, Brian Morris.
Taylor said he dedicated himself to luge because he loved it, and he loved where it might take him.
“I knew at a young age, I wanted to be an Olympic athlete,” he said. “This was an outlet to go do it.” 📸: @nbcolympics, @teamusa, @usa_luge .
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