USA and Canadian Olympic Trials- Final day of practice is over- Race day coming fast!

April 22, 2008

There are about 120 athletes who qualified to compete over the
weekend. There are so many things being determined here by this race that
everyone truly has something to look forward to. The USA and Canadian
athletes are competing first, for a chance to make their respective Olympic
teams. Since only ONE athlete from each country (who qualified a spot) can
make the team for the Olympics, it is a HARD CORE RACE to make the team!

Also, Saturday’s race (there are three races- Friday, Saturday, Sunday), is
the Pan American Championships where athletes from Brazil, Argentina, Costa
Rica, Ecuador, USA, Mexico, Canada, Chile, and more are competing!

Today, in about 1 hour, we are doing the athlete meeting and then watching
the "demonstration runs" where several retired athletes, like Scott Shipley
will be showing us the course. Tomorrow we’ll all get two runs, both
combined for the first day of competition. Each race counts, so each run
counts! Cool!

I’ll get some photos of the comp tomorrow!