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.

Drawn 30 years ago for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid:

a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_k1DHbqzFvCE/S3RNWKwt1II/AAAAAAAAA0k/ZdM8bEDs0xo/s1600-h/18177_320291586046_598881046_5143789_6573805_n.jpg”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_k1DHbqzFvCE/S3RNWKwt1II/AAAAAAAAA0k/ZdM8bEDs0xo/s400/18177_320291586046_598881046_5143789_6573805_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437055693384176770″ //abr /br /My grandmother, Rusty Hovey McKenna, was a well known artist in Lake Placid. Her pen and ink drawings are found all throughout town, but recently my mom recovered this particular one from the Olympics. Pretty cool, huh?div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1362992899157556571-2407518705727758245?l=comeskiwithme.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div