From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.

“(Kapala) didn’t come. Probably a good thing, he’s getting old, these floors are…”

“(Kapala) didn’t come. Probably a good thing, he’s getting old, these floors are slippery and he’d probably fall and break a hip.”br/br/ – em Overheard at US Nationals, Day 1./em