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I had conscionable stepped disconnected the cozy autobus that had taken america crossed the Korean countryside, from Seoul to PyeongChang.
I grabbed my taller-than-me skis container from the autobus which was ever stuffed dense with aggregate puffy jackets, gloves, poles, skis wax, and different covering layers, and besides picked up my skis footwear bag, besides likewise stuffed. Every wintertime jock needs ample and dense amounts of covering to archetypal past conditions that are cold, snowy, icy, oregon a operation of each three, secondly to vie successful these conditions, and thirdly, to effort to triumph a medal.
I past strapped my someway 30-pound skis footwear backpack connected and balanced my 45-pound skis container connected my close shoulder, present making maine 75 pounds heavier. That value wasn’t adjacent counting my mundane covering successful my different bags that I someway had to transportation done the 3 layers of precocious Olympic information to get to my dorm. I rapidly thought backmost to my way and tract days, erstwhile each I needed were way spikes, a shirt, and shorts to compete.
My coaches for years had besides conscionable messaged maine that they wouldn’t beryllium coaching maine astatine the Olympics, adding affectional value to the carnal weight.
Although I was conscionable starting to acquisition the archetypal fewer minutes of my lifelong goal, the Winter Olympics, the spot I had dreamt of starting astatine property 7, I began to wonder, during those archetypal fewer minutes successful the Olympic Village, if I should person dreamt alternatively of competing connected the formation alternatively than the snow, connected a sunny way alternatively than the successful chilly mountains, oregon successful a athletics that didn’t necessitate to transportation astir the value of different idiosyncratic successful instrumentality to compete.
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