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And once again, she is an example of Oakland and our town and what we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12040970 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-03-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-03-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-03-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-03-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-03-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-03-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-03-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Lee speaks to supporters after being sworn in as Mayor of Oakland at Oakland City Hall on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While details on the upcoming celebration are sparse, praise for the young star — whose\u003ca href=\"https://www.instyle.com/alysa-liu-figure-skating-gen-z-olympics-style-hair-11911041\"> Gen Z style\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/news/alysa-liu-skates-to-pinkpantheress-at-olympic-gala/\">untraditional music choices\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DU9Jl_1kmCn/\">unfiltered post-skate celebration\u003c/a> have captured attention across the country — is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Fentons Creamery said Liu will enjoy ice cream for life following her free skate performance to Donna Summer’s disco cover of “MacArthur Park Suite” last week, and offered to host a homecoming party when she returned to the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sundaes are on standby,” the shop, which has operated in Oakland for more than 130 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DU91b36jhzF/\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “Oakland shows up for its own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu was 5 when she was first introduced to skating at the Oakland Ice Center, and continued to train at the club throughout much of her professional career, until announcing her retirement in 2022.[aside postID=news_12072038 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty1.jpg']After she placed sixth at the Beijing Olympic Games that year, she said in a now-deleted social media post that she was “finally done with her goals” in the sport after more than a decade full of “a lot of good and a lot of bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2026/02/02/alysa-liu-oakland-ice-center-figure-skating/#:~:text=Liu%2C%20who%20was%20raised%20in%20the%20East,2025%2C%20and%20the%20skater%20is%20fresh%20off\">told the \u003cem>Oaklandside\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that she was burned out and no longer found joy in skating when she quit. But in 2024, she told the publication, she was reminded of her love for the sport after a skiing trip and decided to return to the ice — and the Oakland Ice Center, where she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7058855/2026/02/19/alysa-liu-olympics-oakland-watch-party-figure-skating/\">again trained\u003c/a> over the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she was in Milan, the rink hosted \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DU9DgWIEnrF/?hl=en&img_index=1\">viewing parties\u003c/a> for her events and praised her winnings on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are so proud to share the ice with you,” a social media post said last week from the Oakland Ice Center and Oakland Skates Ice Hockey, a semi-pro team that uses the rink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART also gave her a shoutout after that performance, congratulating the “BART rider and Oakland legend.” The post clips a news article about Liu, which said she often took the public transit system to get from the East Bay to San Francisco for training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/bart.gov/post/3mfamwo5ljk2l\">Commenters on Bluesky\u003c/a> were quick to point out her connection, too, to San Francisco’s public transit system: When Muni’s L-Taraval train relaunched after five years of renovations in September 2024, Liu recorded a bilingual message in Mandarin and English for returning riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12074616 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/AlysaLiuGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/AlysaLiuGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/AlysaLiuGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/AlysaLiuGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysa Liu performs her routine, which won the gold medal, during the Women’s Singles Skating competition at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games 2026 on Feb. 19, 2026, in Milan, Italy. \u003ccite>(Tim Clayton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“From welcoming riders on the L-Taraval to standing atop the Olympic podium … Huge congratulations to the Bay Area’s own Alysa Liu,” the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DU_eb0cASf8/\">wrote\u003c/a>, joining the bandwagon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-raised football star Marshawn Lynch also sent encouragement to Liu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Go out there and win some gold, bring that sh-t back to the Town man,” Lynch, who played multiple seasons with the Oakland Raiders, said in a video posted to social media. “Town business, show them what you’re talking about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Thursday, after her free skate performance launched her to the top of the singles competition leaderboard, Liu returned the love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland shoutout,” she said as she skated toward the cameras, beaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For most student-athletes, the balancing act between exams and training is part of the job. But for Brandon Kim, a rising senior at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> studying computer science, he calls himself a full-time student first, who still makes time to go for gold at this year’s Milan Cortina \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/winter-olympics\">Winter Olympics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My journey to where I am now is totally different from what a traditional skater or athlete might be,” said Kim, who was born and raised in Fairfax, Virginia. “When I’m at school, I don’t have access to an ice rink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, 24, is among the 20 or so athletes with Bay Area ties who are competing in the Winter Games. 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I’m a short-track speed skater, so I compete inside like an Olympic-size rink, which is like a regular public rink. Our races consist of a lot of strategy. It’s definitely the more exciting version of speedskating compared to long track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Short track seems intense, almost like the sprint on a typical track and field-like track, versus the longer distances, where you have to watch for a while.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s like watching paint dry. I guess the general consensus among short trackers is that long track is boring, and it’s easier because you don’t have to pass people and things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072695\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/BrandonKimOlympicsGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/BrandonKimOlympicsGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/BrandonKimOlympicsGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/BrandonKimOlympicsGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Kim of the United States competes in the men’s 500-meter heats during the ISU Short Track World Tour, Montreal, at Aréna Maurice-Richard on Oct. 9, 2025, in Montreal, Quebec. \u003ccite>( Sarah Stier/International Skating Union via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I have to admit, I barely learned to ice skate. The idea of going that fast, like with any speed whatsoever, terrifies me. So, how did you get into it, and how did you maybe get over a fear of going fast?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started when I was 9 or 10 years old, after watching the [2010] Vancouver Olympics. I thought just the speed that the athletes were going at and turning and racing seemed exciting. And there were a few teams around my area, so I just started out that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your dream has been to make it to the Olympics. And you got really close, right before the 2022 Beijing Games. Can you talk a little bit more about that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We qualify for Olympic spots based on our performance at World Cup competitions prior to the Olympics. I had earned those spots, but unfortunately, I had a lot of trouble at the Olympic Trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I fell like five times. It was a difficult competition for me. With short track, you never know what will happen because you’re racing in a group. You’re passing different people, so there can be a lot of collisions.[aside postID=news_12072038 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty1.jpg']\u003cstrong>You are going to make your Olympic debut, and you’re also a full-time student at Stanford. When you are studying? And training for competitions, what does a typical day look like for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not like a student athlete. I wasn’t recruited to Stanford for short track or anything like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I’m at school, I prioritize my academics. I do a lot of weight lifting and training by myself because there’s no ice rink at Stanford. So, when I go out to compete, I fly out like Wednesday and then start competing on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having just one or two days to acclimate myself and compete again, it’s something that not many, if any skaters, have done. Being away from the ice yet being able to compete at the highest level brings up my confidence and sets me apart from different athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As you join Team USA in speedskating, competing alongside people like Jordan Stoltz, what’s going through your mind?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just want to take it one race at a time and make sure my preparation from now until we start racing is as good as possible. I don’t want to let the pressure overwhelm me or anything like that. I just want to skate my own race and give it all I got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are you looking forward to doing in Italy that is not speed skating?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the Olympic Village, I’m looking forward to looking at the Duomo di Milano. We had the test event at the Olympic facility last year, but unfortunately, I wasn’t able to check it out. So this time, I want to be able to get a look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The 2026 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/winter-olympics\">Winter Olympics\u003c/a> are almost here, with a Feb. 6 kickoff — and this year’s squad of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> athletes is a force to be reckoned with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some are trend-setting Gen Z athletes, others are seasoned international pros, and many are both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ll be showing off their stuff starting this week, so to help you follow along, we’ve compiled a list of all of the athletes who are from or have strong ties to the Bay Area so you can cheer them on from the comfort of your own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, jump straight to information on \u003ca href=\"#howtowatchthe2026WinterOlympicGames\">how to watch the 2026 Winter Olympic Games\u003c/a> and what’s new for this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Figure skating: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Making an iconic comeback this year is \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7362679/alysa-liu-skating-olympics-2026-interview/\">\u003cstrong>Alysa Liu\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: the Clovis-born Oakland-dwelling young figure skating phenom who became the youngest U.S. women’s champion when she was just 13 and took 6th place on the podium at the Beijing Olympics. After retiring at 16 to live a normal teenage life, Liu announced her return to competition in 2024 and went on to win the 2025 World Championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysa Liu of Team United States trains on day minus four of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena on Feb. 2, 2026, in Milan, Italy. \u003ccite>(Jamie Squire/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José ice dancer \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/olympics/2026-milan-cortina/anthony-ponomarenko-olympic-dreams/4008998/\">\u003cstrong>Anthony Ponomarenko\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> will be taking the ice with his longtime skating partner, Christina Carreira. Ponomarenko comes from a family of Olympians, as the son of two Russian ice dancing medalists (and whose mother set him up with Carreira 12 years ago).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alpine skiing: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year’s U.S. Alpine Ski Team is chock full of Bay Area and Lake Tahoe-area athletes, including San Francisco native \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/bay-area-alpine-skier-nina-obrien-milano-cortina-olympics/69961916\">\u003cstrong>Nina O’Brien\u003c/strong>,\u003c/a> who’s returning to ski racing after breaking her leg at the last Games in 2022 and then again in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien, like many others, did most of her early career training at Palisades Tahoe. Other Sierra-based athletes include Tahoe City resident and three-time Olympian \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdSavAbMzi4\">\u003cstrong>Bryce Bennett\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who will be competing in speed events as a new dad, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/olympics/2026-milan-cortina/tahoe-skiers-best-friends-keely-cashman-aj-hurt/4021554/\">two-time Olympians and close friends\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Keely Cashman, \u003c/strong>from Strawberry, and \u003cstrong>AJ Hurt,\u003c/strong> from Carnelian Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nina O’Brien of Team United States in action during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women’s Giant Slalom on Jan. 24, 2026, in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic. \u003ccite>(Millo Moravski/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.lilalapanja.com/meet-lila\">\u003cstrong>Lila Lapanja,\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> who will be competing for Team Slovenia and trained for most of her childhood at Diamond Peak in Incline Village (full disclosure: alongside this story’s author!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lapanja has been a high-level competitor on the world ski racing circuit since 2017, but an Olympic appearance has eluded her — until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Snowboarding: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Speaking of Tahoe-area medalists, keep an eye out for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/news/sports/jamie-anderson-motherhood-2026/4010644/\">\u003cstrong>Jamie Anderson\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of South Lake Tahoe, a mother of two and slopestyle champion — the first woman to win more than one gold in the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1369\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty4-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty4-1536x1051.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Anderson of Team United States competes in the Aspen Snowmass Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Qualifiers during the Toyota US Grand Prix 2026 at Aspen Snowmass Ski Resort on Jan. 8, 2026, in Aspen, Colorado. \u003ccite>(Michael Reaves/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Making their Olympic debuts this year are Truckee-raised athletes \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5n6eXViO4s\">\u003cstrong>Hanna Percy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, competing in snowboard cross, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.usskiandsnowboard.org/news/hahna-norman-rise\">\u003cstrong>Hahna Norman\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, headed to Italy for slopestyle and big air competitions after she barely missed the 2022 games due to an ACL tear.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Freestyle skiing: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the freestyle skiing side, Stanford is sending two athletes to the Games this year, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/03/team-gb-zoe-atkin-winter-olympics-2026-ski-halfpipe\">\u003cstrong>Zoe Atkin\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>who came ninth in Beijing and won this year’s X Games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072323 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ailing Eileen Gu of Team People’s Republic of China participates in slopestyle training on day minus two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Snow Park on Feb. 4, 2026, in Livigno, Italy. \u003ccite>(Michael Reaves/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She’ll be going up against classmate \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/freeskier-eileen-gu-takes-another-wild-ride-to-21327283.php\">\u003cstrong>Eileen Gu\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>born and raised in San Francisco, but who is once again competing for Team China. Gu’s earlier decision not to compete for Team USA in the 2022 Olympics \u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/02/03/cold-warrior-why-eileen-gu-ditched-team-usa-to-ski-for-china\">drew some measure of controversy\u003c/a>, especially after she earned three medals, including two golds, one in big air and the other in halfpipe. At just 18, Gu became the youngest Olympic gold medalist ever in the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at just 15 years old, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierrasun.com/news/15-year-old-freeskier-takes-truckee-to-winter-olympic-stage/\">\u003cstrong>Abby Winterberger\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of Truckee, directly qualified to the Games for freeski halfpipe, bypassing the typical pathways after a fiery run earlier this year in Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cross-country skiing: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yet \u003cem>another \u003c/em>Stanford athlete, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/sammy-smith-winter-olympics-cross-country-skiing\">\u003cstrong>Sammy Smith\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>qualified for the Olympics — just two months after her soccer season as a starting defender for the Cardinal ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith will be joined in Italy by Truckee native \u003ca href=\"https://www.moonshineink.com/sports/nordic-king-qa-with-jc-schoonmaker/\">\u003cstrong>JC Schoonmaker\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who’ll be returning for his second Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sammy Smith of Team United States takes part in a training session on day minus two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium on Feb. 4, 2026, in Val di Fiemme, Italy. \u003ccite>(Lars Baron/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Biathlon: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biathlete \u003cstrong>Joanne Reid\u003c/strong>, born in Palo Alto, is back for her third Games after becoming a major voice \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biathlon-sexual-harassment-female-athletes-investigation-b5c09737637b10f2f6bc5093ee950529\">unveiling allegations of ongoing sexual harassment in her team\u003c/a>. Reid comes from a family of Olympians, with a mom who’s a bronze medalist in speed skating and an uncle who’s a five-time gold medalist in the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Speedskating: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nss3H9aS0ac\">\u003cstrong>Brandon Kim\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, a rising senior at Stanford University majoring in computer science on the pre-med track\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>is the athlete to watch in this intense short-distance sport — even though he doesn’t even have a rink to practice on at Stanford while he’s dedicated to his studies. This is Kim’s first Olympic Games, and his most competitive event is the 500-meter race.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ice hockey: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A handful of players on the San José Sharks made their respective countries’ teams. These include \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/sharks/news/sharks-forward-pavol-regenda-named-to-team-slovakia-s-2026-olympic-roster\">\u003cstrong>Pavol Regenda\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, representing Team Slovakia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/sharks/news/sharks-forward-philipp-kurashev-named-to-team-switzerland-s-2026-olympic-roster\">\u003cstrong>Philipp Kurashev\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> for Team Switzerland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/sharks/news/sharks-forward-alexander-wennberg-named-to-team-sweden-s-2026-olympic-roster#:~:text=Sharks%20forward%20Alexander%20Wennberg%20named%20to%20team%20Sweden's%202026%20Olympic%20roster,-January%2002%2C%202026&text=San%20Jose%20Sharks%20forward%20Alexander,the%20Swedish%20Ice%20Hockey%20Association.\">\u003cstrong>Alexander Wennberg\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> for Team Sweden and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/news/macklin-celebrini-earned-his-spot-on-canada-for-olympics\">\u003cstrong>Macklin Celebrini\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> for Team Canada. While it’s Regenda’s second Olympics, after he won bronze for Slovakia in 2022, it’ll be the first Games for the rest of the squad.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sled hockey: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Paralympian and Daly City resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/news/sports/beijing-winter-olympics/one-on-one-with-jen-lee-sled-hockey-gold-medalist-from-daly-city/2740018/\">\u003cstrong>Jen Lee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is coming back for his fourth — and possibly final — Paralympic Games as the goalie for Team USA’s sled hockey team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072324\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty6-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty6-1536x1077.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jen Lee #32 of Team United States celebrates with teammates after defeating Team Canada during the Para Ice Hockey Gold Medal game on day nine of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics at the National Indoor Stadium on March 13, 2022, in Beijing, China. Team United States defeated Team Canada 5-0. \u003ccite>(Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee is somewhat of a dominator on the ice, having won gold in all three of his Paralympic appearances and having zero goals scored against him in Beijing. Lee is also a military veteran and came into the sport during rehab after losing his leg in a motorcycle accident while on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"howtowatchthe2026WinterOlympicGames\">\u003c/a>How to watch the 2026 Olympic Games\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games are taking place in Northern Italy, split between hubs in Milan for indoor sports and Cortina d’Ampezzo for outdoor mountain sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the opening ceremony isn’t until Friday, the first events actually begin on Wednesday, kicking off with some alpine ski training and preliminary curling events. Paralympic Winter Olympic Games events will start on March 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one new sport premiering at the 2026 Olympics: \u003ca href=\"https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/sports/ski-mountaineering\">ski mountaineering\u003c/a>, affectionately nicknamed “SkiMo.” It’s a mix between cross-country, backcountry and alpine skiing, featuring sprint and relay events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full schedule of Olympic and Paralympic events is listed on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule\">NBC Olympic website\u003c/a>. You can tune in via \u003ca href=\"http://nbcolympics.com\">NBCOlympics.com\u003c/a> or with a subscription to streaming service \u003ca href=\"https://www.peacocktv.com/sports/olympics?cid=2602olywntrnbsperndedi27332&utm_campaign=2602olywntr&utm_source=nbcs_nbcspts_st-sv&utm_medium=ernd_edi_seoopt_bnr&utm_term=nbcsportssitevistors&utm_content=winterolympics2026\">Peacock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct Alysa Liu’s hometown.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Figure skating: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Making an iconic comeback this year is \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7362679/alysa-liu-skating-olympics-2026-interview/\">\u003cstrong>Alysa Liu\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: the Clovis-born Oakland-dwelling young figure skating phenom who became the youngest U.S. women’s champion when she was just 13 and took 6th place on the podium at the Beijing Olympics. After retiring at 16 to live a normal teenage life, Liu announced her return to competition in 2024 and went on to win the 2025 World Championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysa Liu of Team United States trains on day minus four of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena on Feb. 2, 2026, in Milan, Italy. \u003ccite>(Jamie Squire/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José ice dancer \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/olympics/2026-milan-cortina/anthony-ponomarenko-olympic-dreams/4008998/\">\u003cstrong>Anthony Ponomarenko\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> will be taking the ice with his longtime skating partner, Christina Carreira. Ponomarenko comes from a family of Olympians, as the son of two Russian ice dancing medalists (and whose mother set him up with Carreira 12 years ago).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alpine skiing: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year’s U.S. Alpine Ski Team is chock full of Bay Area and Lake Tahoe-area athletes, including San Francisco native \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/bay-area-alpine-skier-nina-obrien-milano-cortina-olympics/69961916\">\u003cstrong>Nina O’Brien\u003c/strong>,\u003c/a> who’s returning to ski racing after breaking her leg at the last Games in 2022 and then again in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien, like many others, did most of her early career training at Palisades Tahoe. Other Sierra-based athletes include Tahoe City resident and three-time Olympian \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdSavAbMzi4\">\u003cstrong>Bryce Bennett\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who will be competing in speed events as a new dad, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/olympics/2026-milan-cortina/tahoe-skiers-best-friends-keely-cashman-aj-hurt/4021554/\">two-time Olympians and close friends\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Keely Cashman, \u003c/strong>from Strawberry, and \u003cstrong>AJ Hurt,\u003c/strong> from Carnelian Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nina O’Brien of Team United States in action during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women’s Giant Slalom on Jan. 24, 2026, in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic. \u003ccite>(Millo Moravski/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.lilalapanja.com/meet-lila\">\u003cstrong>Lila Lapanja,\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> who will be competing for Team Slovenia and trained for most of her childhood at Diamond Peak in Incline Village (full disclosure: alongside this story’s author!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lapanja has been a high-level competitor on the world ski racing circuit since 2017, but an Olympic appearance has eluded her — until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Snowboarding: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Speaking of Tahoe-area medalists, keep an eye out for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/news/sports/jamie-anderson-motherhood-2026/4010644/\">\u003cstrong>Jamie Anderson\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of South Lake Tahoe, a mother of two and slopestyle champion — the first woman to win more than one gold in the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1369\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty4-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty4-1536x1051.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Anderson of Team United States competes in the Aspen Snowmass Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Qualifiers during the Toyota US Grand Prix 2026 at Aspen Snowmass Ski Resort on Jan. 8, 2026, in Aspen, Colorado. \u003ccite>(Michael Reaves/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Making their Olympic debuts this year are Truckee-raised athletes \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5n6eXViO4s\">\u003cstrong>Hanna Percy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, competing in snowboard cross, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.usskiandsnowboard.org/news/hahna-norman-rise\">\u003cstrong>Hahna Norman\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, headed to Italy for slopestyle and big air competitions after she barely missed the 2022 games due to an ACL tear.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Freestyle skiing: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the freestyle skiing side, Stanford is sending two athletes to the Games this year, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/03/team-gb-zoe-atkin-winter-olympics-2026-ski-halfpipe\">\u003cstrong>Zoe Atkin\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>who came ninth in Beijing and won this year’s X Games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072323 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ailing Eileen Gu of Team People’s Republic of China participates in slopestyle training on day minus two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Snow Park on Feb. 4, 2026, in Livigno, Italy. \u003ccite>(Michael Reaves/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She’ll be going up against classmate \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/freeskier-eileen-gu-takes-another-wild-ride-to-21327283.php\">\u003cstrong>Eileen Gu\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>born and raised in San Francisco, but who is once again competing for Team China. Gu’s earlier decision not to compete for Team USA in the 2022 Olympics \u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/02/03/cold-warrior-why-eileen-gu-ditched-team-usa-to-ski-for-china\">drew some measure of controversy\u003c/a>, especially after she earned three medals, including two golds, one in big air and the other in halfpipe. At just 18, Gu became the youngest Olympic gold medalist ever in the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at just 15 years old, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierrasun.com/news/15-year-old-freeskier-takes-truckee-to-winter-olympic-stage/\">\u003cstrong>Abby Winterberger\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of Truckee, directly qualified to the Games for freeski halfpipe, bypassing the typical pathways after a fiery run earlier this year in Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cross-country skiing: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yet \u003cem>another \u003c/em>Stanford athlete, \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/sammy-smith-winter-olympics-cross-country-skiing\">\u003cstrong>Sammy Smith\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>qualified for the Olympics — just two months after her soccer season as a starting defender for the Cardinal ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith will be joined in Italy by Truckee native \u003ca href=\"https://www.moonshineink.com/sports/nordic-king-qa-with-jc-schoonmaker/\">\u003cstrong>JC Schoonmaker\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who’ll be returning for his second Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sammy Smith of Team United States takes part in a training session on day minus two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium on Feb. 4, 2026, in Val di Fiemme, Italy. \u003ccite>(Lars Baron/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Biathlon: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biathlete \u003cstrong>Joanne Reid\u003c/strong>, born in Palo Alto, is back for her third Games after becoming a major voice \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biathlon-sexual-harassment-female-athletes-investigation-b5c09737637b10f2f6bc5093ee950529\">unveiling allegations of ongoing sexual harassment in her team\u003c/a>. Reid comes from a family of Olympians, with a mom who’s a bronze medalist in speed skating and an uncle who’s a five-time gold medalist in the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Speedskating: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nss3H9aS0ac\">\u003cstrong>Brandon Kim\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, a rising senior at Stanford University majoring in computer science on the pre-med track\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>is the athlete to watch in this intense short-distance sport — even though he doesn’t even have a rink to practice on at Stanford while he’s dedicated to his studies. This is Kim’s first Olympic Games, and his most competitive event is the 500-meter race.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ice hockey: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A handful of players on the San José Sharks made their respective countries’ teams. These include \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/sharks/news/sharks-forward-pavol-regenda-named-to-team-slovakia-s-2026-olympic-roster\">\u003cstrong>Pavol Regenda\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, representing Team Slovakia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/sharks/news/sharks-forward-philipp-kurashev-named-to-team-switzerland-s-2026-olympic-roster\">\u003cstrong>Philipp Kurashev\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> for Team Switzerland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/sharks/news/sharks-forward-alexander-wennberg-named-to-team-sweden-s-2026-olympic-roster#:~:text=Sharks%20forward%20Alexander%20Wennberg%20named%20to%20team%20Sweden's%202026%20Olympic%20roster,-January%2002%2C%202026&text=San%20Jose%20Sharks%20forward%20Alexander,the%20Swedish%20Ice%20Hockey%20Association.\">\u003cstrong>Alexander Wennberg\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> for Team Sweden and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/news/macklin-celebrini-earned-his-spot-on-canada-for-olympics\">\u003cstrong>Macklin Celebrini\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> for Team Canada. While it’s Regenda’s second Olympics, after he won bronze for Slovakia in 2022, it’ll be the first Games for the rest of the squad.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sled hockey: Bay Area athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Paralympian and Daly City resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/news/sports/beijing-winter-olympics/one-on-one-with-jen-lee-sled-hockey-gold-medalist-from-daly-city/2740018/\">\u003cstrong>Jen Lee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is coming back for his fourth — and possibly final — Paralympic Games as the goalie for Team USA’s sled hockey team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072324\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty6-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty6-1536x1077.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jen Lee #32 of Team United States celebrates with teammates after defeating Team Canada during the Para Ice Hockey Gold Medal game on day nine of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics at the National Indoor Stadium on March 13, 2022, in Beijing, China. Team United States defeated Team Canada 5-0. \u003ccite>(Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee is somewhat of a dominator on the ice, having won gold in all three of his Paralympic appearances and having zero goals scored against him in Beijing. Lee is also a military veteran and came into the sport during rehab after losing his leg in a motorcycle accident while on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"howtowatchthe2026WinterOlympicGames\">\u003c/a>How to watch the 2026 Olympic Games\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games are taking place in Northern Italy, split between hubs in Milan for indoor sports and Cortina d’Ampezzo for outdoor mountain sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the opening ceremony isn’t until Friday, the first events actually begin on Wednesday, kicking off with some alpine ski training and preliminary curling events. Paralympic Winter Olympic Games events will start on March 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one new sport premiering at the 2026 Olympics: \u003ca href=\"https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/sports/ski-mountaineering\">ski mountaineering\u003c/a>, affectionately nicknamed “SkiMo.” It’s a mix between cross-country, backcountry and alpine skiing, featuring sprint and relay events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full schedule of Olympic and Paralympic events is listed on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule\">NBC Olympic website\u003c/a>. You can tune in via \u003ca href=\"http://nbcolympics.com\">NBCOlympics.com\u003c/a> or with a subscription to streaming service \u003ca href=\"https://www.peacocktv.com/sports/olympics?cid=2602olywntrnbsperndedi27332&utm_campaign=2602olywntr&utm_source=nbcs_nbcspts_st-sv&utm_medium=ernd_edi_seoopt_bnr&utm_term=nbcsportssitevistors&utm_content=winterolympics2026\">Peacock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct Alysa Liu’s hometown.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony is February 6 this year. It’s always fun to watch all the different delegations from other countries show off and to notice which countries have a lot of athletes and which ones only have a couple. As you might imagine, for the Winter Games, it’s usually places with mountains and cold weather that get to show off. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, lucky for us here in the Bay Area, we’ve got mountains not too far away. And plenty of talent so there are a bunch of athletes that were either born in the Bay Area or live here now that will be fun to cheer for.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today on Bay Curious we chat about some of the most well known folks to watch out for, including Alyssa Liu, Brandon Kim, Jen Young Lee, Nina O’Brien and Joanne Reed. Plus, you’ll learn about our dashed Olympic dreams.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9350229370&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are here, and I am ready to park myself in front of the television to take all of it in. I’ve loved the Olympics for as long as I can remember. I have these vivid memories of watching the 1994 Winter Olympics with my mom, watching Nancy Kerrigan float around the ice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Hamilton commenting on TV: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First jump is a triple flip. She doubles it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was so smitten, I begged my parents for ice skating lessons the following Christmas. I got them and went every week, but it didn’t take too long for my Olympic dreams to melt when faced with reality. I was only okay. Oh well. I may have hung up my skates, but over the past few Olympic cycles, I’ve gotten really into following our local Olympians, both those who were born here in the Bay Area and those who reside here now. Here to discuss some of the local athletes to cheer on is Natalia Navarro. She is the afternoon anchor of KQED News and a fellow Olympics fan. Welcome, Natalia.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much for having me. I was also obsessed with watching skating as a child, watched it with my mom, I have very similar memories. We will compare notes after. Yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also here is a voice you know well, Katrina Schwartz, editor and producer for Bay Curious. She’s also a big fan of the Olympics, often waffling between whether she likes winter or the summer games more. Where are you at right now?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I mean, whichever one is on is the one I like the best, but I will say I have a particular fondness right now for the Summer Olympics because I was home on maternity leave with a newborn baby during the July, whatever, 2024 Summer Olympics. So I watched them like obsessively. I watched every sport, like every event.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That sounds lovely. And finally, we have Sarah Wright. She is KQED’s outdoors reporter. And Sarah, you grew up in Tahoe and you are a former ski racer yourself and you even trained alongside some now Olympians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah Wright: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, it’s very exciting to get to watch them as they live out all of our dream. I similarly quit when I was young because I wasn’t very good, but had a great time training.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gosh, I love that. And I love how we’ve all had like a little bit of our own Olympic dream. So I want to start with what is your favorite winter Olympic sport to watch? And is there one that you secretly think, had you maybe have dedicated your life to it, you might be good at? Katrina, you’re up first. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, to watch…I really like the snowboard cross which is the one where like just like four are racing and they’re like jockeying for position I just I’m a snowboarder and if that looks really hard basically based on what I know of snowboarding Honestly, I think I’d be terrible at all of the winter Olympic sports, but maybe like bobsled I was really I love cool runnings as a kid So like, you know, I have dreams that I too could just run really fast on the ice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What about you, Sarah? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah Wright: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I’ll find ski racing as my favorite, mostly because I actually know the sport, unlike many of the other Winter Olympics sports. So I can follow along with the drama and the high stakes and unfortunately the injuries, which happen in almost every single Olympics. And as far as competing, I have absolutely no ice skills, but I have small dreams of ice hockey and would love to someday be able to compete, even just casually as an ice hockey player. I think it’d be really fun. And lots of good local teams here in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ice skating, of course. Figure skating. I just loved it as a child so much and I never took lessons as a kid or anything. I just really enjoyed it and I loved watching it with my mom. My icons were Michelle Kwan and Oksana Bayul. But then actually as an adult, I took adult ice skating lessons for about a year. Was not great at it, but boy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did I have fun? I love that. And well, let’s stay there with ice skating, because I want to talk about our first Bay Area Olympian, who we’ll be discussing today. And that’s US figure skater, Alyssa Liu. She was born in Richmond, but lives in Oakland now. And she really wowed judges at the US Figure Skating Championships in January. She has a ton of fans. Natalia, what do you think makes her so much fun to watch?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She really reminds me of those skaters that I grew up watching. Her skating is so fluid, so relaxed and she actually looks like she’s having a great time. She doesn’t look like everyone else which I personally relate to and love so much like she has this really signature look right now. She’s got this this bleached halo striped hair, she’s got some cool piercings going on and she seems to have really her own perspective to communicate. It just really brings me back and she looks so effortless on the ice right now. She was actually the youngest and first American woman to ever land a triple axel in international competition at just 12 years old. That’s one of the most difficult jumps and it’s become her signature. She’s got two exciting programs to watch. Her short program is really expressive and emotional. And her free skate is to a Lady Gaga medley and it’s very, very fun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now this is Alyssa’s second Olympics. As you said, she’s been skating at a very high level for a long time. So even though she’s only 20 years old, she’s really a veteran in the sport, but she did step away from the sport for a while. Tell us about that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was very, very good at skating in a very young age. So she was primarily homeschooled during most of her life. She was living in the dorms at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado. And she got to this point around, you know, 15, 16 years old. Where she really was missing out on a lot of what we all want as teens and young adults. That isolation and lack of social interaction, it was really taking a toll on her mental health. She hung up her skates. She thought it was for good. She retired at just 16 years old. And she went about her life. She got to be a normal kid. And then, you know, in January of 2024, at that point she was at UCLA going to college. She went skiing in Lake Tahoe, which is not something that you can do when you’re an elite figure skater and you’re worried about getting injured. She was just having fun. And she realized on that trip that she really missed skating. She announced her return to competition in March of 2024 and just came back like a storm. She won the 2025 world championships and it is really working. Like she is a different person on the ice now. He or she is talking about all of this with Jimmy Fallon. What makes skating feel different now?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alysa Liu: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of creative control this time around. You know, I get to pick out what I want my dress to look like, what color I want to use. Sometimes I’ll drop a real bad sketch, send it to my dress designer, see if she can decipher it. I pick my music and I control my training. You know what I’m saying? My schedule, I draw myself. So, yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She’s also a Bay Area super fan. I follow her on social media and you can sometimes spot familiar Bay Area vistas or businesses in her posts and she’s always talking about how much she loves Oakland, which just makes my heart sing. Do you think she has a shot at the podium?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well, Russia and Japan have dominated the last few Olympic podiums, but she has a pretty high baseline score for all of her elements. I think she absolutely has a chance to get onto that podium, but you know what she said is she doesn’t really care about the results anymore. It’s not the medal that fulfills her, she said. She just wants to share her art with the world. That creative expression is really clear at her skating and I think it’s going to serve her well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope so. I’ll be rooting for her. Okay, so for this next athlete, we’re staying on the ice, but let’s pick up the pace. I wanna talk about speed skater, Brandon Kim. He’s a rising senior at Stanford, majoring in computer science, but on the pre-med track. And he’ll be making his debut at the Winter Olympics this year in short track speed skating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, this guy is wild. When he’s at Stanford, he doesn’t even have an ice rink to practice at, so he’s been keeping up his fitness by himself while he’s like focused on his studies half the year. He talked with KQED’s Brian Watt the other day, and he said that getting the feel of the ice is a really important part of speed skating. So when he flies out to a competition over a long weekend, the first day or two, he’s just trying to like feel the ice again, and that’s really hard.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brandon Kim: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I would say definitely my journey to where I am now is totally different from I guess what you would say like a traditional like skater or athlete might be. I’m a full-time student, so being away from the ice, flying out, having just one or two days to acclimate myself and compete again, it’s definitely something that not many, if any skaters have done.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the Olympics in play, this past year has been a little bit different. He took a few quarters off of school so that he could practice full time in Salt Lake City with the rest of the speed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speed skating is such a fun sport to watch. The track is 111 meters around, which, if you think about it, is really tiny. For context, the shortest distance that’s raced on the outdoor track is 100 meters. So just turn that into a doughnut. The curves are so tight that the racers, I mean, they’re practically horizontal on the ice as they are whipping around those turns. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, they reach up to 30 miles per hour. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Wow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brandon Kim: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short track, you never know exactly what will happen just because you know, you’re racing in a group, you’re passing different people. So there can be a lot of collisions, falls.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like Alyssa Liu, Brandon has been at this since he was really young. He first saw speed skating in the Vancouver Olympics and thought it looked really cool, but there was just one problem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brandon Kim: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I definitely did not skate at all. When I first started, my coach gave me a bucket or like a folding chair to push around because I was falling so much.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, it seems like he figured it out. Yeah, he said to compete in the 500, the 1000, and the 1,500-meter races, with people thinking his best chances are probably in the five hundred.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’re going to take a quick break, but when we return, more Bay Area Olympians. Stay with us. And we’re back, talking Bay Area Olympians that you can cheer for over the coming weeks. Sarah, who are you excited to pull for?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah Wright: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are actually a number of athletes who are from the Bay Area here or spend a lot of time around here but are competing for other countries during this Olympics like freestyle skier Eileen Gu. She was born and raised in San Francisco and is a current student at Stanford but she’s competing for Team China, a move that she also made ahead of the 2022 Beijing Olympics And, at the time, it drew a lot of controversy. Especially after she earned three medals, including two golds, one in big air and the other in half pipe. And she was only 18 when she did those, right? Yeah, she was the youngest Olympic gold medalist in history in her sport, which if you haven’t ever watched it, it’s pretty incredible. And it’s not just Eileen, there are also a handful of ice hockey players who on the San Jose Sharks right now. And who made their respective country’s teams. So there’s Pavel Rogenda, representing Team Slovakia, Filip Kirishchev for Team Switzerland, Alexander Wenberg for Team Sweden, and Macklin Celebrini for Team Canada. But if I’m being honest, I might be the most excited to watch Laila Leponia. She will be racing slalom for Team Slovenia, and she and I actually grew up ski racing together in Tahoe. She’s been working toward her Olympic dream since we were kids and she just messaged me and said she’s very excited to be competing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wow, that’s amazing to be like, I don’t know, thinking back to your childhood memories and put an Olympian in there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah Wright: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, we were all working very hard. 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He served in Iraq and tragically, he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident that actually happened while he was on leave, but it ended his military career and he was rehabbing in a military hospital when he was introduced to sled hockey. It brought him back because he went to Thomas Edison Elementary in Daly City and he used to play stick ball. And, you know, he had fun. He liked the Mighty Ducks, just like anybody else, but he never thought he was gonna like play ice hockey until this was offered to him as part of his rehab and he just loved it and he was good at it. So he’s been a staple for the team for many, many years now. It’s his fourth Olympic Games. And he understands that there are a lot of guys younger than him who like need him to kind of step up right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jen Young Lee: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My other role is really being a leader for the younger guys. We got young guys who were still in high school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anybody making four Paralympic teams is impressive, but especially in a sport that’s as demanding as hockey. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seriously, when I chatted with him last week he was living in Colorado. They’re doing this intense residency where they all live together and do two-a-days and just constantly are training. And he said he couldn’t feel his arms. So yeah, they are training a lot. He’s clearly a fierce competitor and amazing athlete, but he says that this might be his last Olympic games, he has a young daughter who will be in Milan cheering for him.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jen Young Lee: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just want to be closer with my daughter and be a little bit more a full-time dad, right? So that is kind of scary. There’s definitely a lot of options as far as, you know, go coaching or do something, you know with the hockey or, but a lot of those things are unknown, uncertain. And we’re just going to see how that, how those things go after the games, you know.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, well, good luck to Jen as well. This is overall a pretty small sampling of our local athletes going, but there are more athletes that we didn’t get to talk about today. Sarah, maybe give us a couple highlights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah Wright: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, so Nina O’Brien, she’s a San Francisco native, an alpine ski racer coming back from breaking her leg twice, the first time was racing at the last Olympics. We also have biathlete Joanne Reed. She was born in Palo Alto and she’s also coming back, this after a sexual harassment case that took years to be taken seriously by US biathlon officials. She comes from a family of Olympians. Her mom is a bronze medalist in speed skating. And her uncle is a five-time gold medalist in the sport. There’s other legacy athletes as well. Anthony Ponomarenko from San Jose. He’s the son of two Russian ice dancing medalists. He takes the ice with his long-time dancing partner, Christina Carrera. Their moms set them up in 2014, and they’ve been a pair ever since. That’s so cute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is. All right, Sarah, and you have a helpful guide on all the Bay Area Olympians at KQED.org. So if you’re listening, be sure to go check that out. Sarah Wright, Natalia Navarro, Katrina Schwartz, thank you for talking Olympics with me today. Shall we bring it in on three? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Everyone:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let’s do it. Go team on three. One, two, three… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Everyone:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Go team. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Become a member today at kqed.org slash donate. Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen Price. Extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Ethan Tovan Lindsey and everyone on Team KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the KQEd podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California, local. I’m Olivia Allen-Price, see you next time. Go team on three.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Everyone: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One, two, three, go team! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can we do it again? I forgot to say anything.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel like usually only one person does the count. Should we all say the count? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah, you guys just say go team. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Everyone: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay. Okay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Scott Hamilton commenting on TV: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First jump is a triple flip. She doubles it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was so smitten, I begged my parents for ice skating lessons the following Christmas. I got them and went every week, but it didn’t take too long for my Olympic dreams to melt when faced with reality. I was only okay. Oh well. I may have hung up my skates, but over the past few Olympic cycles, I’ve gotten really into following our local Olympians, both those who were born here in the Bay Area and those who reside here now. Here to discuss some of the local athletes to cheer on is Natalia Navarro. She is the afternoon anchor of KQED News and a fellow Olympics fan. Welcome, Natalia.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much for having me. I was also obsessed with watching skating as a child, watched it with my mom, I have very similar memories. We will compare notes after. Yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also here is a voice you know well, Katrina Schwartz, editor and producer for Bay Curious. She’s also a big fan of the Olympics, often waffling between whether she likes winter or the summer games more. Where are you at right now?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I mean, whichever one is on is the one I like the best, but I will say I have a particular fondness right now for the Summer Olympics because I was home on maternity leave with a newborn baby during the July, whatever, 2024 Summer Olympics. So I watched them like obsessively. I watched every sport, like every event.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That sounds lovely. And finally, we have Sarah Wright. She is KQED’s outdoors reporter. And Sarah, you grew up in Tahoe and you are a former ski racer yourself and you even trained alongside some now Olympians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah Wright: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, it’s very exciting to get to watch them as they live out all of our dream. I similarly quit when I was young because I wasn’t very good, but had a great time training.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gosh, I love that. And I love how we’ve all had like a little bit of our own Olympic dream. So I want to start with what is your favorite winter Olympic sport to watch? And is there one that you secretly think, had you maybe have dedicated your life to it, you might be good at? 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So I can follow along with the drama and the high stakes and unfortunately the injuries, which happen in almost every single Olympics. And as far as competing, I have absolutely no ice skills, but I have small dreams of ice hockey and would love to someday be able to compete, even just casually as an ice hockey player. I think it’d be really fun. And lots of good local teams here in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ice skating, of course. Figure skating. I just loved it as a child so much and I never took lessons as a kid or anything. I just really enjoyed it and I loved watching it with my mom. My icons were Michelle Kwan and Oksana Bayul. But then actually as an adult, I took adult ice skating lessons for about a year. 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She doesn’t look like everyone else which I personally relate to and love so much like she has this really signature look right now. She’s got this this bleached halo striped hair, she’s got some cool piercings going on and she seems to have really her own perspective to communicate. It just really brings me back and she looks so effortless on the ice right now. She was actually the youngest and first American woman to ever land a triple axel in international competition at just 12 years old. That’s one of the most difficult jumps and it’s become her signature. She’s got two exciting programs to watch. Her short program is really expressive and emotional. And her free skate is to a Lady Gaga medley and it’s very, very fun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now this is Alyssa’s second Olympics. As you said, she’s been skating at a very high level for a long time. So even though she’s only 20 years old, she’s really a veteran in the sport, but she did step away from the sport for a while. Tell us about that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was very, very good at skating in a very young age. So she was primarily homeschooled during most of her life. She was living in the dorms at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado. And she got to this point around, you know, 15, 16 years old. Where she really was missing out on a lot of what we all want as teens and young adults. That isolation and lack of social interaction, it was really taking a toll on her mental health. She hung up her skates. She thought it was for good. She retired at just 16 years old. And she went about her life. She got to be a normal kid. And then, you know, in January of 2024, at that point she was at UCLA going to college. She went skiing in Lake Tahoe, which is not something that you can do when you’re an elite figure skater and you’re worried about getting injured. She was just having fun. And she realized on that trip that she really missed skating. She announced her return to competition in March of 2024 and just came back like a storm. She won the 2025 world championships and it is really working. Like she is a different person on the ice now. He or she is talking about all of this with Jimmy Fallon. What makes skating feel different now?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alysa Liu: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of creative control this time around. You know, I get to pick out what I want my dress to look like, what color I want to use. Sometimes I’ll drop a real bad sketch, send it to my dress designer, see if she can decipher it. I pick my music and I control my training. You know what I’m saying? My schedule, I draw myself. So, yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She’s also a Bay Area super fan. I follow her on social media and you can sometimes spot familiar Bay Area vistas or businesses in her posts and she’s always talking about how much she loves Oakland, which just makes my heart sing. Do you think she has a shot at the podium?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well, Russia and Japan have dominated the last few Olympic podiums, but she has a pretty high baseline score for all of her elements. I think she absolutely has a chance to get onto that podium, but you know what she said is she doesn’t really care about the results anymore. It’s not the medal that fulfills her, she said. She just wants to share her art with the world. That creative expression is really clear at her skating and I think it’s going to serve her well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope so. I’ll be rooting for her. Okay, so for this next athlete, we’re staying on the ice, but let’s pick up the pace. I wanna talk about speed skater, Brandon Kim. He’s a rising senior at Stanford, majoring in computer science, but on the pre-med track. And he’ll be making his debut at the Winter Olympics this year in short track speed skating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, this guy is wild. When he’s at Stanford, he doesn’t even have an ice rink to practice at, so he’s been keeping up his fitness by himself while he’s like focused on his studies half the year. He talked with KQED’s Brian Watt the other day, and he said that getting the feel of the ice is a really important part of speed skating. So when he flies out to a competition over a long weekend, the first day or two, he’s just trying to like feel the ice again, and that’s really hard.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brandon Kim: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I would say definitely my journey to where I am now is totally different from I guess what you would say like a traditional like skater or athlete might be. I’m a full-time student, so being away from the ice, flying out, having just one or two days to acclimate myself and compete again, it’s definitely something that not many, if any skaters have done.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the Olympics in play, this past year has been a little bit different. He took a few quarters off of school so that he could practice full time in Salt Lake City with the rest of the speed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speed skating is such a fun sport to watch. The track is 111 meters around, which, if you think about it, is really tiny. For context, the shortest distance that’s raced on the outdoor track is 100 meters. So just turn that into a doughnut. The curves are so tight that the racers, I mean, they’re practically horizontal on the ice as they are whipping around those turns. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, they reach up to 30 miles per hour. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Wow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brandon Kim: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short track, you never know exactly what will happen just because you know, you’re racing in a group, you’re passing different people. So there can be a lot of collisions, falls.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like Alyssa Liu, Brandon has been at this since he was really young. He first saw speed skating in the Vancouver Olympics and thought it looked really cool, but there was just one problem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brandon Kim: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I definitely did not skate at all. When I first started, my coach gave me a bucket or like a folding chair to push around because I was falling so much.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, it seems like he figured it out. Yeah, he said to compete in the 500, the 1000, and the 1,500-meter races, with people thinking his best chances are probably in the five hundred.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’re going to take a quick break, but when we return, more Bay Area Olympians. Stay with us. And we’re back, talking Bay Area Olympians that you can cheer for over the coming weeks. Sarah, who are you excited to pull for?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah Wright: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are actually a number of athletes who are from the Bay Area here or spend a lot of time around here but are competing for other countries during this Olympics like freestyle skier Eileen Gu. She was born and raised in San Francisco and is a current student at Stanford but she’s competing for Team China, a move that she also made ahead of the 2022 Beijing Olympics And, at the time, it drew a lot of controversy. Especially after she earned three medals, including two golds, one in big air and the other in half pipe. And she was only 18 when she did those, right? Yeah, she was the youngest Olympic gold medalist in history in her sport, which if you haven’t ever watched it, it’s pretty incredible. And it’s not just Eileen, there are also a handful of ice hockey players who on the San Jose Sharks right now. And who made their respective country’s teams. So there’s Pavel Rogenda, representing Team Slovakia, Filip Kirishchev for Team Switzerland, Alexander Wenberg for Team Sweden, and Macklin Celebrini for Team Canada. But if I’m being honest, I might be the most excited to watch Laila Leponia. She will be racing slalom for Team Slovenia, and she and I actually grew up ski racing together in Tahoe. She’s been working toward her Olympic dream since we were kids and she just messaged me and said she’s very excited to be competing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wow, that’s amazing to be like, I don’t know, thinking back to your childhood memories and put an Olympian in there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah Wright: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, we were all working very hard. She was working the hardest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, right on the heels of the Olympics is the Paralympics, which will be held in the same spot, but about a month later, from March 6th through 15th. And Daly City’s Jen Young Lee is headed back for his fourth Paralympics. He is the goalie on Team USA’s sled hockey team, and he’s won gold each time he’s been there. Last go around in Beijing, he had zero goals scored on him for the entire tournament. Wow. I mean perfection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, he’s an intense competitor and he’s got an incredible story. I mean, honestly, a lot of Paralympians have incredible stories for how they came to their sport. He was a veteran. He served in Iraq and tragically, he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident that actually happened while he was on leave, but it ended his military career and he was rehabbing in a military hospital when he was introduced to sled hockey. It brought him back because he went to Thomas Edison Elementary in Daly City and he used to play stick ball. And, you know, he had fun. He liked the Mighty Ducks, just like anybody else, but he never thought he was gonna like play ice hockey until this was offered to him as part of his rehab and he just loved it and he was good at it. So he’s been a staple for the team for many, many years now. It’s his fourth Olympic Games. And he understands that there are a lot of guys younger than him who like need him to kind of step up right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jen Young Lee: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My other role is really being a leader for the younger guys. We got young guys who were still in high school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anybody making four Paralympic teams is impressive, but especially in a sport that’s as demanding as hockey. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seriously, when I chatted with him last week he was living in Colorado. They’re doing this intense residency where they all live together and do two-a-days and just constantly are training. And he said he couldn’t feel his arms. So yeah, they are training a lot. He’s clearly a fierce competitor and amazing athlete, but he says that this might be his last Olympic games, he has a young daughter who will be in Milan cheering for him.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jen Young Lee: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just want to be closer with my daughter and be a little bit more a full-time dad, right? So that is kind of scary. There’s definitely a lot of options as far as, you know, go coaching or do something, you know with the hockey or, but a lot of those things are unknown, uncertain. And we’re just going to see how that, how those things go after the games, you know.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, well, good luck to Jen as well. This is overall a pretty small sampling of our local athletes going, but there are more athletes that we didn’t get to talk about today. Sarah, maybe give us a couple highlights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah Wright: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, so Nina O’Brien, she’s a San Francisco native, an alpine ski racer coming back from breaking her leg twice, the first time was racing at the last Olympics. We also have biathlete Joanne Reed. She was born in Palo Alto and she’s also coming back, this after a sexual harassment case that took years to be taken seriously by US biathlon officials. She comes from a family of Olympians. Her mom is a bronze medalist in speed skating. And her uncle is a five-time gold medalist in the sport. There’s other legacy athletes as well. Anthony Ponomarenko from San Jose. He’s the son of two Russian ice dancing medalists. He takes the ice with his long-time dancing partner, Christina Carrera. Their moms set them up in 2014, and they’ve been a pair ever since. That’s so cute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is. All right, Sarah, and you have a helpful guide on all the Bay Area Olympians at KQED.org. So if you’re listening, be sure to go check that out. Sarah Wright, Natalia Navarro, Katrina Schwartz, thank you for talking Olympics with me today. Shall we bring it in on three? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Everyone:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let’s do it. Go team on three. One, two, three… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Everyone:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Go team. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Become a member today at kqed.org slash donate. Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen Price. Extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Ethan Tovan Lindsey and everyone on Team KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the KQEd podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California, local. I’m Olivia Allen-Price, see you next time. Go team on three.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Everyone: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One, two, three, go team! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can we do it again? I forgot to say anything.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel like usually only one person does the count. Should we all say the count? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah, you guys just say go team. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Everyone: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay. Okay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mixed-race\">\u003cem>This post is part of a series of stories on The California Report Magazine about the experience of being mixed race.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More from The California Report’s ‘Mixed’ series\" tag=\"mixed\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olympic figure skater Tai Babilonia rose to fame as a child in the 1960s, breaking into the white world of figure skating with the help of famed coach Mabel Fairbanks, who herself was of Black and Seminole descent. Babilonia and her skating partner, Randy Gardner, rapidly ascended figure skating’s ranks to become World Champions in 1979. They were favorites at the 1980 Olympics, but an injury ended their dream of a medal. In the decades since, Babilonia has opened up about a lot of difficult experiences in her life, including the racism and exotification she faced as an athlete and public figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the series “Mixed: Stories of Mixed-Race Californians,” hosts Sasha Khokha and Marisa Lagos spoke to Babilonia about growing up in a mixed-race family in the 1960s, and how she’s dedicated her career to creating pathways for younger figure skaters, especially skaters of color. Here are some excerpts from that conversation, edited for brevity and clarity. Listen to the full conversation by clicking the play button at the top of this page.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On growing up mixed race in Los Angeles in the 1960s and ’70s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1058px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/20220310_235337.jpg\" alt=\"A family photo taken near the water with a smiling daughter who wears white sunglasses, a mother sits on a rock in the center with black sunglasses and her young son to the right who squints at the camera in the sunlight.\" width=\"1058\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/20220310_235337.jpg 1058w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/20220310_235337-800x702.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/20220310_235337-1020x895.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/20220310_235337-160x140.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1058px) 100vw, 1058px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Tai Babilonia (left) with her mother, Cleo Babilonia (center), and older brother, Constancio Babilonia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Tai Babilonia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My father is Filipino and Hopi Indian, and my mom is Black. We lived in a great neighborhood. It was a rainbow color of different nationalities: Hispanic and Black kids and white kids and mixed kids. It was on a street called Sierra Bonita in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11944239 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_20210612_072954_061.jpg\" alt=\"A husband and wife pose for their wedding photo. The bride smiles to the left of her groom wearing a lacy, white gown. The groom smiles next to his bride in a white tux with black bowtie and a single white carnation on his lapel. She is Black, and he is Filipino and Hopi Indian.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_20210612_072954_061.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_20210612_072954_061-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_20210612_072954_061-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_20210612_072954_061-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_20210612_072954_061-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai Babilonia’s parents, Cleo Babilonia and Detective Sgt. Babilonia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Babilonia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tai Babilonia, Olympic figure skater\"]‘They had never seen a multiracial family. It makes you tough. You learn, whether you know it or not, you’re starting to build that armor.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[When we moved to the San Fernando Valley], we did get the looks. I got the funny looks when I was with my mother. It was the outside world that couldn’t figure it out. They didn’t know what to think of us. They had never seen a multiracial family. It makes you tough. You learn, whether you know it or not, you’re starting to build that armor. And, I think, that [was] protection for the future, when it did get a little uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On training with Mabel Fairbanks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1408px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002.jpg\" alt=\"Two child figure skaters, one girl with a blond ponytail, and one boy with dark, short hair, glide on the ice together in a black and white image.\" width=\"1408\" height=\"1392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002.jpg 1408w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002-800x791.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002-1020x1008.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babilonia and skating partner Randy Gardner as young skaters gliding on the ice. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Babilonia and Detective Sgt. Babilonia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s a rink in Culver City. That’s where I started. I took [lessons] from Mabel Fairbanks. [She was a] pioneer, [the] first Black coach. She wasn’t allowed to compete or join a show. So, there’s no record of competitions or anything. But she fought and hustled just to make a living. She had to go abroad to make a name for herself and to pay the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were her kids, actually, because she didn’t have kids. [She] had a stable of students, all different nationalities, rich, poor, celebrities’ kids. We didn’t feel different. The one thing she did say, because we were all different shades of brown and beige and Black, [was] we must “jump higher, spin faster and sparkle brighter.” Huge lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On competing at the highest levels\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A male and female figure skater wearing matching red, sparkly outfits glide across the ice.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1676\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-2048x1341.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-1920x1257.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babilonia and Gardner glide through their routine in Atlanta on Jan. 20, 1980. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of a sudden we’re on ABC \u003cem>Wide World of Sports\u003c/em> and, you know, just the it pair team. These two kids, young teens from Los Angeles. We came out of nowhere. Our first nationals, I think I was 12, 1973, and it was white. [There were] maybe one or two other Black skaters. And, there’s my mom in a sea of white parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kP4LXNFeTU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was there to work and compete. Call [us] whatever you’re going to call us; put us in whatever category you want to put us in; I still have to go out and compete. And, you know, when you’re winning, it shuts people up. We were spinning faster and jumping higher and at the top of the podium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did I think about being a role model? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Now, looking back, I understand that I was. You start getting letters from kids in schools. Letters [from] kids of color saying, “It was so nice to see someone who looks like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On media coverage of her mixed-race identity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tai Babilonia, Olympic figure skater\"]‘They put me in the box that they felt comfortable in identifying me with.’[/pullquote]When I got into figure skating, questions would come up — [TV] networks not knowing what to call me. They didn’t know where to put me. And the word “exotic” always came up. Why couldn’t they just call me what I was? What stopped them from saying what my mother was and what my father was?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They put me in the box that they felt comfortable in identifying me with.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On talking with her son about his mixed-race heritage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Scout is white — his dad’s white and Jewish — and then there’s my side of the family. I just tell him, “Scout, embrace everything that you are. Learn to embrace it. Honor your parents.” I tried to plant that seed early on with him. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/beijing-2022/#:~:text=When%20is%20the%20next%20Winter,scheduled%20for%2020%20February%202022.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24th Winter Olympics\u003c/a> are unfolding in Beijing right now with endless hours of coverage and athlete profiles. It’s a much bigger event than the winter games held in the Tahoe valley back in 1960. At that time, there were no huge ski resorts and bustling crowds. The Olympics jump-started Tahoe’s reputation as a winter sports destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osvaldo and Eddy Ancinas live in Olympic Valley near Lake Tahoe — right where the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/squaw-valley-1960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1960 Olympics\u003c/a> took place. Both remember those winter games as if they were yesterday. Back then, \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/athletes/osvaldo-a-ancinas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Osvaldo\u003c/a> was a dashing member of Argentina’s ski team, who competed in three alpine events — downhill, giant slalom and slalom. Eddy was one of the young multilingual women employed to make the visiting dignitaries feel welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like when you meet a wonderful family,” said Osvaldo, who can remember the folk song he performed at the athlete’s talent show held during the games one night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53559_Olympic-Athlete-Village-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53559_Olympic-Athlete-Village-qut.jpg 765w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53559_Olympic-Athlete-Village-qut-160x161.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Olympic Village, 1960. The complex housed athletes and was mostly off-limits to others. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Briner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Outsized and lasting impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Ancinases said the 1960 Olympics weren’t just memorable for the people who were there, like them. The event also had an outsized and lasting impact worldwide because of the many firsts and innovations that happened there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technologies that we consider commonplace today, like instant replay and a first-of-its-kind refrigeration mechanism for the speed-skating oval, were pioneered or developed at those games. Also, this was the first time the Olympics were televised live nationwide. CBS bought the exclusive rights for $50,000, and Walter Cronkite reported live throughout the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-800x790.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-800x790.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-1020x1008.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-1536x1518.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pageantry chair Walt Disney at the 1960 Olympics. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Briner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walt Disney himself \u003c/a>was the pageantry chair. The entertainment king and winter sports enthusiast turned the event into a theatrical extravaganza worthy of TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney’s team booked choirs and bands to play in Olympic Village and created giant, white statues of athletes that looked like they were carved out of ice (though in reality they were fashioned from wire and papier-mâché). At various points they released fireworks, balloons and even pigeons into the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddy Ancinas said the event took on an almost supernatural quality under Disney’s direction, especially after a heavy snowstorm delayed the start of the opening ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-800x1007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1007\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-800x1007.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-1020x1284.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-1221x1536.jpg 1221w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut.jpg 1498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the massive athlete sculptures created by Walt Disney’s team for the 1960 Olympics. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Briner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The blizzard suddenly ended, the sun came out and the sky was blue,” she said. “It was kind of like maybe God had a hand in this or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Myth-making vs. lost reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The weather wasn’t the only element to give the 1960 Olympics an almost mythological aura. Another is the U.S. men’s ice hockey team’s triumph against the fearsome Soviets — a big deal during the Cold War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53532_Squaw-Valley-US-Russia-Final_Buzzer-1960-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53532_Squaw-Valley-US-Russia-Final_Buzzer-1960-qut.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53532_Squaw-Valley-US-Russia-Final_Buzzer-1960-qut-160x94.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historic ice hockey game between the U.S. and Soviet Union at the 1960 Olympics. The U.S. won 3-2. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the narrative about how the games even made it to an obscure corner (at the time) of the Sierra Nevada in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a David and Goliath story,” said Eddy, who wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.talesfromtwovalleysbook.com/book/\">a 2019 book about the region’s ski history\u003c/a>. “There was nothing there, so they had a clean slate. To make that into an Olympic site was quite a feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what tends to get lost in accounts of the 1960 Olympic Games is the fact that they took place on unceded Indigenous lands — stolen land that had belonged to Native people for thousands of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People view this land as pristine and untouched,” said Herman Fillmore, culture and language resources director for the \u003ca href=\"https://washoetribe.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California\u003c/a>. “But this land was actually shaped by Indigenous peoples and our cultures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the Olympics, Fillmore said his tribe was in the middle of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/washoe-tribe-indian-claims-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decades-long lawsuit against the federal government\u003c/a> for the theft of roughly 6 million acres of Washoe lands, including the area where the Olympics were held. The Washoe had never formally entered into a treaty nor received compensation for land occupied by the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Washoe people were undergoing a court case to gain any sort of restitution for the taking of our land, we coincidentally have the 1960 Olympics, where other nations are freely welcome to Washoe homelands, a place that Washoe people were no longer allowed to be,” Fillmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53530_library-of-congress-1866-washoe-indians-valley-of-lake-tahoe-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53530_library-of-congress-1866-washoe-indians-valley-of-lake-tahoe-qut.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53530_library-of-congress-1866-washoe-indians-valley-of-lake-tahoe-qut-160x142.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washoe tribespeople in their ancestral lands in the valley of Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both the tribe and local historians say the organizers of the Olympic Games did not consult Washoe people about their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, owners named the resort that hosted the games Squaw Valley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13885276/squaw-valley-ski-resort-will-change-its-name\">a racist and misogynistic term used for Indigenous women\u003c/a>. European settlers had given the land that name in the mid-19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resort kept the name until September 2021, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.palisadestahoe.com/new-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">management rebranded it Palisades Tahoe\u003c/a>. Tribal members had been asking for the derogatory name to be removed for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The renaming of Palisades was long overdue,” said Fillmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The 1960 Olympic story\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most historical accounts of the Tahoe Olympics begin with a picture of a sparkling white landscape, practically untouched by human hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was almost nothing here: one lift, two rope tows, a lodge and a dirt road leading to it off the highway. And there were only two year-round families that lived in the valley itself,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.tahoefacts.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Antonucci\u003c/a>, an avid cross-country skier, long-time Tahoe resident and author of the book “\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002Y5VTCC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snowball’s Chance: The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tahoe Olympic story began in the waning days of 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alex Cushing, who is a co-founder of what was then known as the Squaw Valley ski area, was reading the paper,” said Antonucci. “And he saw that the city of Reno was submitting a bid to host the 1960 Winter Olympics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was all it took to give Cushing the improbable idea of pitching his own little ski resort as a contender for the privilege of hosting the 1960 Olympics, said Antonucci.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought, ‘Heck, Squaw Valley is a better mountain. I’ve got better conditions here. I wonder if I could submit a bid and just get some publicity for it?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cushing was a Harvard-educated lawyer with many rich and powerful friends. He hurriedly put together a proposal, got financial backing from the California state Legislature, and traveled to New York to pitch the U.S. Olympic Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And much to the surprise of everybody, the U.S. Olympic Committee decided to nominate Squaw Valley to host the 1960 Winter Olympics,” Antonucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 755px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904462\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53560_Opening-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53560_Opening-2-qut.jpg 755w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53560_Opening-2-qut-160x163.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the opening ceremonies at the 1960 Olympics. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Briner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Cushing still had to go to Paris and convince the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that Tahoe should host the Games. Even though by this point he had the support of both the state of California and the U.S. federal government, his chances of winning looked pretty slim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s being told, ‘Forget it. You’ve got no chance. You’re just wasting your time,'” said Antonucci. “People in the Olympic orbit said, ‘Innsbruck, Austria, has it tied up.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cushing and his team didn’t give up. They started working their contacts around the globe. The lobbying effort included the then-unorthodox step of printing their proposal in Spanish — not just the official Olympic languages of English and French. [emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]“He actually traveled or had representatives travel to South America to visit with IOC representatives that normally wouldn’t be interested in the Winter Olympics to get their support and make sure they would be in attendance and could vote,” Antonucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two nail-biting rounds of voting, California prevailed, beating Innsbruck by just a couple of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world was shocked,” said Antonucci, adding that another year would pass before the IOC definitively green-lit Cushing’s winning bid, asking him to raise several million dollars in funding first.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Disappearing history\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.palisadestahoe.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palisades Tahoe\u003c/a>, the massive white mountains set against the limitless blue sky are just as awe-striking today as they likely were back in 1960. Antonucci points out where some of the Olympic races took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we look up this canyon here, this was the men’s downhill course,” he said. “It started up on that peak, which is called Palisades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Olympic logo, with its five, colorful interlocking circles symbolizing global unity, is a favorite location for a photo opp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only a smattering of the original Olympic era structures remain. One such building is the Olympic Village Lodge, part of the complex that was used to house the athletes for the duration of the games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Olympic Village Lodge’s cavernous dining hall is where the athletes came together to socialize, eat and enjoy evening performances by some of the leading acts of the day like Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walt Disney arranged for entertainment every night, and that was held in this room,” said Antonucci.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the dining room at Olympic Village Lodge, one of just a few spaces built for the 1960 Olympics that remain at Palisades Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this historic building, like most of the others still standing at Palisades Tahoe, isn’t in great shape. The dining room roof is currently propped up by steel columns, following snow damage from a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the Olympics, the facilities were originally to be operated by the state of California through its Department of Parks and Recreation as a public winter recreation site,” said Antonucci. “But it never became viable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonucci said the state eventually sold the buildings off bit by bit to developers and investors, until it all ended up under control of a privately owned resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>New developments\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The current resort owner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alterramtnco.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alterra Mountain Company\u003c/a>, proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.placer.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/9344/Specific-Plan-for-Village-at-Squaw-Valley-PDF\">plan in 2016 to demolish the historic buildings\u003c/a> in order to make way for new development, including high-rise hotels and an indoor waterpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local anti-development activists managed to stall these plans in court last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who really value the sense of place that we still feel in the Tahoe Sierra are working together to demand something better,” said Tom Mooers, executive director of the Nevada City-based conservation group \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierrawatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sierra Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to carrying out a responsible development project,” said \u003ca href=\"https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/press/dee-byrne-named-president-coo-of-squaw-valley-alpine-meadows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palisades Tahoe President and COO Dee Byrne\u003c/a> in an email. “This project will provide significant benefits to our community, such as new jobs, increased tax revenue, new affordable housing units and millions in funds for conservation and transit to Olympic Valley and the region. Unfortunately, due to the 2021 court decision, we will now have to wait longer to see those benefits come to fruition and begin to serve our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what happens next in court, David Antonucci is resigned to the idea that eventually the historic buildings will likely come down. He expressed sadness, but said the structures mostly fall short of current ADA and energy conservation standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something has to happen,” Antonucci said. “These buildings are at the end of their useful life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Olympic future at Tahoe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ever since the 1980s, a variety of local groups, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.renotahoewintergames.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition\u003c/a>, have been working to bring the Olympics back to the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent efforts fell by the wayside in 2018. But that doesn’t put a definitive end to the possibility of the games returning at some point down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904381 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddy Ancinas, David Antonucci and Osvaldo Ancinas in Tahoe City. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea, however, holds little interest for Eddy and Osvaldo Ancinas, even though they hold cherished memories of the 1960 event.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n“It’s just so different right now,” said Osvaldo. “The cost is going to be horrible. Billions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many people,” said Eddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the couple, together with David Antonucci, are part of a group working to salvage the region’s Olympic history as best as they can. They’re planning to build a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesnowmuseum.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20,000-square-foot museum\u003c/a> at the entrance to Olympic Valley, right where the Olympic torch still burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/beijing-2022/#:~:text=When%20is%20the%20next%20Winter,scheduled%20for%2020%20February%202022.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24th Winter Olympics\u003c/a> are unfolding in Beijing right now with endless hours of coverage and athlete profiles. It’s a much bigger event than the winter games held in the Tahoe valley back in 1960. At that time, there were no huge ski resorts and bustling crowds. The Olympics jump-started Tahoe’s reputation as a winter sports destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osvaldo and Eddy Ancinas live in Olympic Valley near Lake Tahoe — right where the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/squaw-valley-1960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1960 Olympics\u003c/a> took place. Both remember those winter games as if they were yesterday. Back then, \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/athletes/osvaldo-a-ancinas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Osvaldo\u003c/a> was a dashing member of Argentina’s ski team, who competed in three alpine events — downhill, giant slalom and slalom. Eddy was one of the young multilingual women employed to make the visiting dignitaries feel welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like when you meet a wonderful family,” said Osvaldo, who can remember the folk song he performed at the athlete’s talent show held during the games one night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53559_Olympic-Athlete-Village-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53559_Olympic-Athlete-Village-qut.jpg 765w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53559_Olympic-Athlete-Village-qut-160x161.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Olympic Village, 1960. The complex housed athletes and was mostly off-limits to others. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Briner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Outsized and lasting impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Ancinases said the 1960 Olympics weren’t just memorable for the people who were there, like them. The event also had an outsized and lasting impact worldwide because of the many firsts and innovations that happened there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technologies that we consider commonplace today, like instant replay and a first-of-its-kind refrigeration mechanism for the speed-skating oval, were pioneered or developed at those games. Also, this was the first time the Olympics were televised live nationwide. CBS bought the exclusive rights for $50,000, and Walter Cronkite reported live throughout the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-800x790.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-800x790.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-1020x1008.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut-1536x1518.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53562_Disney-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pageantry chair Walt Disney at the 1960 Olympics. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Briner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walt Disney himself \u003c/a>was the pageantry chair. The entertainment king and winter sports enthusiast turned the event into a theatrical extravaganza worthy of TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney’s team booked choirs and bands to play in Olympic Village and created giant, white statues of athletes that looked like they were carved out of ice (though in reality they were fashioned from wire and papier-mâché). At various points they released fireworks, balloons and even pigeons into the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddy Ancinas said the event took on an almost supernatural quality under Disney’s direction, especially after a heavy snowstorm delayed the start of the opening ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-800x1007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1007\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-800x1007.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-1020x1284.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut-1221x1536.jpg 1221w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53561_Sculpture-1-qut.jpg 1498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the massive athlete sculptures created by Walt Disney’s team for the 1960 Olympics. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Briner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The blizzard suddenly ended, the sun came out and the sky was blue,” she said. “It was kind of like maybe God had a hand in this or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Myth-making vs. lost reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The weather wasn’t the only element to give the 1960 Olympics an almost mythological aura. Another is the U.S. men’s ice hockey team’s triumph against the fearsome Soviets — a big deal during the Cold War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53532_Squaw-Valley-US-Russia-Final_Buzzer-1960-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53532_Squaw-Valley-US-Russia-Final_Buzzer-1960-qut.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53532_Squaw-Valley-US-Russia-Final_Buzzer-1960-qut-160x94.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historic ice hockey game between the U.S. and Soviet Union at the 1960 Olympics. The U.S. won 3-2. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the narrative about how the games even made it to an obscure corner (at the time) of the Sierra Nevada in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a David and Goliath story,” said Eddy, who wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.talesfromtwovalleysbook.com/book/\">a 2019 book about the region’s ski history\u003c/a>. “There was nothing there, so they had a clean slate. To make that into an Olympic site was quite a feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what tends to get lost in accounts of the 1960 Olympic Games is the fact that they took place on unceded Indigenous lands — stolen land that had belonged to Native people for thousands of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People view this land as pristine and untouched,” said Herman Fillmore, culture and language resources director for the \u003ca href=\"https://washoetribe.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California\u003c/a>. “But this land was actually shaped by Indigenous peoples and our cultures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the Olympics, Fillmore said his tribe was in the middle of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/washoe-tribe-indian-claims-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decades-long lawsuit against the federal government\u003c/a> for the theft of roughly 6 million acres of Washoe lands, including the area where the Olympics were held. The Washoe had never formally entered into a treaty nor received compensation for land occupied by the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Washoe people were undergoing a court case to gain any sort of restitution for the taking of our land, we coincidentally have the 1960 Olympics, where other nations are freely welcome to Washoe homelands, a place that Washoe people were no longer allowed to be,” Fillmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53530_library-of-congress-1866-washoe-indians-valley-of-lake-tahoe-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53530_library-of-congress-1866-washoe-indians-valley-of-lake-tahoe-qut.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53530_library-of-congress-1866-washoe-indians-valley-of-lake-tahoe-qut-160x142.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washoe tribespeople in their ancestral lands in the valley of Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both the tribe and local historians say the organizers of the Olympic Games did not consult Washoe people about their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, owners named the resort that hosted the games Squaw Valley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13885276/squaw-valley-ski-resort-will-change-its-name\">a racist and misogynistic term used for Indigenous women\u003c/a>. European settlers had given the land that name in the mid-19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resort kept the name until September 2021, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.palisadestahoe.com/new-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">management rebranded it Palisades Tahoe\u003c/a>. Tribal members had been asking for the derogatory name to be removed for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The renaming of Palisades was long overdue,” said Fillmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The 1960 Olympic story\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most historical accounts of the Tahoe Olympics begin with a picture of a sparkling white landscape, practically untouched by human hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was almost nothing here: one lift, two rope tows, a lodge and a dirt road leading to it off the highway. And there were only two year-round families that lived in the valley itself,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.tahoefacts.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Antonucci\u003c/a>, an avid cross-country skier, long-time Tahoe resident and author of the book “\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002Y5VTCC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snowball’s Chance: The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tahoe Olympic story began in the waning days of 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alex Cushing, who is a co-founder of what was then known as the Squaw Valley ski area, was reading the paper,” said Antonucci. “And he saw that the city of Reno was submitting a bid to host the 1960 Winter Olympics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was all it took to give Cushing the improbable idea of pitching his own little ski resort as a contender for the privilege of hosting the 1960 Olympics, said Antonucci.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought, ‘Heck, Squaw Valley is a better mountain. I’ve got better conditions here. I wonder if I could submit a bid and just get some publicity for it?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cushing was a Harvard-educated lawyer with many rich and powerful friends. He hurriedly put together a proposal, got financial backing from the California state Legislature, and traveled to New York to pitch the U.S. Olympic Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And much to the surprise of everybody, the U.S. Olympic Committee decided to nominate Squaw Valley to host the 1960 Winter Olympics,” Antonucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 755px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904462\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53560_Opening-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53560_Opening-2-qut.jpg 755w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53560_Opening-2-qut-160x163.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the opening ceremonies at the 1960 Olympics. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Briner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Cushing still had to go to Paris and convince the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that Tahoe should host the Games. Even though by this point he had the support of both the state of California and the U.S. federal government, his chances of winning looked pretty slim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s being told, ‘Forget it. You’ve got no chance. You’re just wasting your time,'” said Antonucci. “People in the Olympic orbit said, ‘Innsbruck, Austria, has it tied up.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cushing and his team didn’t give up. They started working their contacts around the globe. The lobbying effort included the then-unorthodox step of printing their proposal in Spanish — not just the official Olympic languages of English and French. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He actually traveled or had representatives travel to South America to visit with IOC representatives that normally wouldn’t be interested in the Winter Olympics to get their support and make sure they would be in attendance and could vote,” Antonucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two nail-biting rounds of voting, California prevailed, beating Innsbruck by just a couple of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world was shocked,” said Antonucci, adding that another year would pass before the IOC definitively green-lit Cushing’s winning bid, asking him to raise several million dollars in funding first.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Disappearing history\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.palisadestahoe.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palisades Tahoe\u003c/a>, the massive white mountains set against the limitless blue sky are just as awe-striking today as they likely were back in 1960. Antonucci points out where some of the Olympic races took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we look up this canyon here, this was the men’s downhill course,” he said. “It started up on that peak, which is called Palisades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Olympic logo, with its five, colorful interlocking circles symbolizing global unity, is a favorite location for a photo opp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only a smattering of the original Olympic era structures remain. One such building is the Olympic Village Lodge, part of the complex that was used to house the athletes for the duration of the games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Olympic Village Lodge’s cavernous dining hall is where the athletes came together to socialize, eat and enjoy evening performances by some of the leading acts of the day like Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walt Disney arranged for entertainment every night, and that was held in this room,” said Antonucci.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53529_olympic-village-lodge-dining-hall-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the dining room at Olympic Village Lodge, one of just a few spaces built for the 1960 Olympics that remain at Palisades Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this historic building, like most of the others still standing at Palisades Tahoe, isn’t in great shape. The dining room roof is currently propped up by steel columns, following snow damage from a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the Olympics, the facilities were originally to be operated by the state of California through its Department of Parks and Recreation as a public winter recreation site,” said Antonucci. “But it never became viable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonucci said the state eventually sold the buildings off bit by bit to developers and investors, until it all ended up under control of a privately owned resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>New developments\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The current resort owner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alterramtnco.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alterra Mountain Company\u003c/a>, proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.placer.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/9344/Specific-Plan-for-Village-at-Squaw-Valley-PDF\">plan in 2016 to demolish the historic buildings\u003c/a> in order to make way for new development, including high-rise hotels and an indoor waterpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local anti-development activists managed to stall these plans in court last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who really value the sense of place that we still feel in the Tahoe Sierra are working together to demand something better,” said Tom Mooers, executive director of the Nevada City-based conservation group \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierrawatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sierra Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to carrying out a responsible development project,” said \u003ca href=\"https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/press/dee-byrne-named-president-coo-of-squaw-valley-alpine-meadows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palisades Tahoe President and COO Dee Byrne\u003c/a> in an email. “This project will provide significant benefits to our community, such as new jobs, increased tax revenue, new affordable housing units and millions in funds for conservation and transit to Olympic Valley and the region. Unfortunately, due to the 2021 court decision, we will now have to wait longer to see those benefits come to fruition and begin to serve our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what happens next in court, David Antonucci is resigned to the idea that eventually the historic buildings will likely come down. He expressed sadness, but said the structures mostly fall short of current ADA and energy conservation standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something has to happen,” Antonucci said. “These buildings are at the end of their useful life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Olympic future at Tahoe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ever since the 1980s, a variety of local groups, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.renotahoewintergames.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition\u003c/a>, have been working to bring the Olympics back to the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent efforts fell by the wayside in 2018. But that doesn’t put a definitive end to the possibility of the games returning at some point down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904381 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53528_eddy-osvaldo-and-dave-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddy Ancinas, David Antonucci and Osvaldo Ancinas in Tahoe City. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea, however, holds little interest for Eddy and Osvaldo Ancinas, even though they hold cherished memories of the 1960 event.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n“It’s just so different right now,” said Osvaldo. “The cost is going to be horrible. 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Kim Yong Chol (back right) attend the closing ceremony. \u003ccite>(Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Although parting is sad, we will remember Pyeongchang with beautiful memories. Athletes, you are true champions,” said Lee Hee-beom, the Pyeongchang Olympics organizing committee president. “The seed of peace you have planted here in Pyeongchang will grow as a big tree in the not-distant future. The hope and aspirations of South and North Korean athletes together with cheerleaders will definitely serve as a cornerstone of the unification of the Korean Peninsula.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Bach, the head of the International Olympic Committee, said North and South Korea “have shown how sport brings people together in our very fragile world. You have shown how sport builds bridges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Olympic flame extinguished in Pyeongchang, the torch has been passed to Beijing. In 2022, the Chinese capital will host the next Winter Games. In the meantime, we have the Summer Olympics to look forward to in Tokyo in 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Dancers perform during the closing ceremony.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652162\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers perform during the closing ceremony.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Figure skaters Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres of France march in the Parade of Athletes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652163\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-1920x1287.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-960x644.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure skaters Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres of France march in the Parade of Athletes.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Flags are projected on the stands as athletes enter the stadium.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652160\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flags are projected on the stands as athletes enter the stadium.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Francois Xavier-Marit/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-800x355.jpg\" alt=\"Performers hold LED balls.\" width=\"800\" height=\"355\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652164\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-800x355.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-160x71.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-1020x453.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-1920x853.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-1180x524.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-960x426.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-240x107.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-375x167.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-520x231.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers hold LED balls.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Tongan cross country skier Pita Taufatofua (left) once again marched bare-chested in frigid temperatures, and met onstage with China's silver medalist snowboarder Liu Jiayu and U.S. gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652167\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-520x348.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tongan cross country skier Pita Taufatofua (left) once again marched bare-chested in frigid temperatures, and met onstage with China’s silver medalist snowboarder Liu Jiayu and U.S. gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks are set off.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652169\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-960x642.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-520x348.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks are set off.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Francois Xavier-Marit/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Four-time Olympian Arianna Fontana of Italy, celebrating in the Parade of Athletes, won gold, silver and bronze in Pyeongchang.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652170\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-960x645.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-520x350.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-time Olympian Arianna Fontana of Italy, celebrating in the Parade of Athletes, won gold, silver and bronze in Pyeongchang.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(David Ramos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924051748_custom-09a34b90835cf260edea7b882f2a9eed4ce6dfc9-s1300-c85-800x1080.jpg\" alt=\"The Olympic flame is extinguished amid fireworks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652171\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924051748_custom-09a34b90835cf260edea7b882f2a9eed4ce6dfc9-s1300-c85-800x1080.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924051748_custom-09a34b90835cf260edea7b882f2a9eed4ce6dfc9-s1300-c85-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924051748_custom-09a34b90835cf260edea7b882f2a9eed4ce6dfc9-s1300-c85-1020x1377.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924051748_custom-09a34b90835cf260edea7b882f2a9eed4ce6dfc9-s1300-c85-1180x1593.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924051748_custom-09a34b90835cf260edea7b882f2a9eed4ce6dfc9-s1300-c85-960x1296.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924051748_custom-09a34b90835cf260edea7b882f2a9eed4ce6dfc9-s1300-c85-240x324.jpg 240w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics concluded Sunday evening in South Korea. The closing ceremony saw fewer athletes than the opening event 17 days ago — some Olympians have already gone home — but didn’t stint on pageantry, K-pop and expressions of hope for peace between the two Koreas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivanka Trump, daughter of the U.S. president, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in sat near a visiting North Korean general, Kim Yong Chol, believed to be a former spy chief, whose delegation had earlier been met with a sit-in by conservative South Korean lawmakers near the border crossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (left), his wife Kim Jung-sook (second left), Ivanka Trump (second right) and North Korean Gen. Kim Yong Chol (back right) attend the closing ceremony.\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652161\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-1920x1373.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-1180x844.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924018072_custom-04864a8329e8214955f364fafb81b058354879b1-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in (left), his wife Kim Jung-sook (second left), Ivanka Trump (second right) and North Korean Gen. Kim Yong Chol (back right) attend the closing ceremony. \u003ccite>(Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Although parting is sad, we will remember Pyeongchang with beautiful memories. Athletes, you are true champions,” said Lee Hee-beom, the Pyeongchang Olympics organizing committee president. “The seed of peace you have planted here in Pyeongchang will grow as a big tree in the not-distant future. The hope and aspirations of South and North Korean athletes together with cheerleaders will definitely serve as a cornerstone of the unification of the Korean Peninsula.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Bach, the head of the International Olympic Committee, said North and South Korea “have shown how sport brings people together in our very fragile world. You have shown how sport builds bridges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Olympic flame extinguished in Pyeongchang, the torch has been passed to Beijing. In 2022, the Chinese capital will host the next Winter Games. In the meantime, we have the Summer Olympics to look forward to in Tokyo in 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Dancers perform during the closing ceremony.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652162\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/dandeliondone-8e3c40e242cd19a166fb4509cb55e0dafc90a0cf.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers perform during the closing ceremony.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Figure skaters Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres of France march in the Parade of Athletes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652163\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-1920x1287.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-960x644.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924030148_custom-56125e4e09f8e438b09520ec632a040a4647fab1-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure skaters Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres of France march in the Parade of Athletes.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Flags are projected on the stands as athletes enter the stadium.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652160\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021048_custom-9587b0d04f0cb21e21f269716947ba2f63cc6bad-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flags are projected on the stands as athletes enter the stadium.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Francois Xavier-Marit/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-800x355.jpg\" alt=\"Performers hold LED balls.\" width=\"800\" height=\"355\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652164\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-800x355.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-160x71.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-1020x453.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-1920x853.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-1180x524.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-960x426.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-240x107.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-375x167.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924046390_custom-b427c37163925c2031201e7355447e7e10bff89a-520x231.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers hold LED balls.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Tongan cross country skier Pita Taufatofua (left) once again marched bare-chested in frigid temperatures, and met onstage with China's silver medalist snowboarder Liu Jiayu and U.S. gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652167\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85-520x348.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044038_custom-d28c00e93e0b33aaa62c3b6291835ccf350f1d96-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tongan cross country skier Pita Taufatofua (left) once again marched bare-chested in frigid temperatures, and met onstage with China’s silver medalist snowboarder Liu Jiayu and U.S. gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks are set off.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652169\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-960x642.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85-520x348.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924044518_custom-d4b502bdf34a2aeb56ba3fe59aa8dce8ab1b4890-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks are set off.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Francois Xavier-Marit/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Four-time Olympian Arianna Fontana of Italy, celebrating in the Parade of Athletes, won gold, silver and bronze in Pyeongchang.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652170\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-960x645.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85-520x350.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924021304_custom-def647d91141d430211c5118f87ca13fa2efe34a-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-time Olympian Arianna Fontana of Italy, celebrating in the Parade of Athletes, won gold, silver and bronze in Pyeongchang.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(David Ramos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924051748_custom-09a34b90835cf260edea7b882f2a9eed4ce6dfc9-s1300-c85-800x1080.jpg\" alt=\"The Olympic flame is extinguished amid fireworks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652171\" 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src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924053398_custom-e7b6555b4162dc71836cb8fa4535f164d101b72f-s1300-c85-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"France's biathlon champion Martin Fourcade (center), who won three gold medals in Pyeongchang, poses for a selfie with athletes and volunteers during the closing ceremony.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924053398_custom-e7b6555b4162dc71836cb8fa4535f164d101b72f-s1300-c85-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924053398_custom-e7b6555b4162dc71836cb8fa4535f164d101b72f-s1300-c85-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924053398_custom-e7b6555b4162dc71836cb8fa4535f164d101b72f-s1300-c85-1020x687.jpg 1020w, 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src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924025022_custom-6b7c22c4da4575ab309959de3e63ae42dfb111e0-s1300-c85-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Drones light up the sky in the shape of Soohorang, the white tiger Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games mascot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652176\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924025022_custom-6b7c22c4da4575ab309959de3e63ae42dfb111e0-s1300-c85-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924025022_custom-6b7c22c4da4575ab309959de3e63ae42dfb111e0-s1300-c85-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924025022_custom-6b7c22c4da4575ab309959de3e63ae42dfb111e0-s1300-c85-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-924025022_custom-6b7c22c4da4575ab309959de3e63ae42dfb111e0-s1300-c85-1180x831.jpg 1180w, 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"content": "\u003cp>Every four years, the world falls in love with figure skating. It doesn’t matter if we know any of the athletes or what a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salchow_jump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salchow\u003c/a> is. The skaters’ sequins blind us and their spins make us dizzy. We simply cannot get enough of Olympic figure skating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the 2018 Olympic Games come to an end in Pyeongchang, a different group of skaters, across the ocean in Oakland, dreams of taking home their own gold this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/IceSymmetrics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IceSymmetrics\u003c/a> are a synchronized ice skating team. They practice at the Oakland Ice Rink before the sun rises, wearing matching black IceSymmetrics hoodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robyn Fernsworth (second from right) owns a public relations company. She has been skating with the IceSymmetrics for two years. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During a break, one skater glides to the side of the rink to grab her water bottle. Her brown hair is pulled into a sleek ponytail, and she’s wearing a black fleece headband. She looks like a pro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Robyn Fernsworth is not a professional ice skater; she does public relations for technology companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the team, there’s also a lawyer, a real estate agent, a human resources rep and a teacher. See, most Olympic figure skaters peak in their 20s. But one of the rules of the IceSymmetrics is you can’t be under 25 to join.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have never heard of synchronized ice skating, but it’s a big deal. The sport draws 5,000 skaters nationwide to compete each year. This year the IceSymmetrics beat their Denver rivals to become the West Coast champs for their age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlDJbw6oiQk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they’re gearing up for nationals. As Elvis Presley music echoes through the empty bleachers, the IceSymmetrics run through their routine again and again, trying to make sure every leg kick and finger point of their 3½-minute performance is completely in sync.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651576\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11651576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The IceSymmetrics took home the gold medal at Pacific Coast sectionals in January. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robyn Fernsworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have to do all of our steps together at the same time on the same beat,” explains Fernsworth. “It’s not easy because sometimes people might count a little faster, so we’re kind of counting and listening to the music at the same time. And breathing!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can barely stand on ice skates, so the idea of skating in sync with 13 other people sounds impossible. But for Fernsworth, ice skating is like second nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was 9 years old, she started skating at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.snoopyshomeice.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Schulz rink\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa, a 10-minute drive from her house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just always loved being on the ice. It’s so smooth, gliding. And it’s thrilling because you’re going fast,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651622\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11651622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robyn Fernsworth, age 9. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robyn Fernsworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651623\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11651623\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-800x1006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-800x1006.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-1020x1283.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-1180x1484.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-960x1208.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-240x302.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-375x472.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-520x654.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robyn Fernsworth, age 15. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robyn Fernsworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fernsworth is 46 years old now. She skated competitively until she was 19. And then she made the choice that a lot of young athletes have to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I left to go to college and have a career and have a family,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she always kept her ice skates in her closet, until a few years ago, when a friend encouraged her to try out for a Masters team, for skaters 25 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernsworth says her muscle memory is strong, but all those loops and Axels have taken a toll on her body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spinning is fine, but I get dizzy. So these are things that happen when you’re an older ice skater,” she says. “I was like, ‘OK, I can’t get myself off the ground as easily.’ And when I spin I’m like, ‘Whoa!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, when the IceSymmetrics travel to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/IceSymmetrics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portland, Oregon,\u003c/a> for the national championships, they’ll be facing some tough competition from Midwest and East Coast teams. But medal or no medal, Fernsworth has already reaped the rewards of getting back into skating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an adult and as a parent, and [with] your job, you know you’re so stressed working,” she says. “So it’s great to have an outlet where you can work out your mind, work out your body, and just do something for yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651578\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-800x802.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-800x802.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-240x241.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-375x376.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-520x521.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/IceSymmtrics.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The IceSymmetrics celebrate after winning Pacific Coast sectionals. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robyn Fernsworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of practice, a pair of skaters works on a tricky move for the finale. One woman squats, spinning and holding onto the forearms of another woman who is spinning on her back, just inches above the ice. I looked this move up. It’s actually called a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(figure_skating)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death spiral\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And these skaters — these lawyers, teachers, parents — they nail it. They wake up before dawn to do something that is so hard, that so many of us watch on TV but never dream of trying in real life. No one’s paying them to do it. Their knees hurt and they’re tired, and they love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s pretty Olympic.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every four years, the world falls in love with figure skating. It doesn’t matter if we know any of the athletes or what a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salchow_jump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salchow\u003c/a> is. The skaters’ sequins blind us and their spins make us dizzy. We simply cannot get enough of Olympic figure skating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the 2018 Olympic Games come to an end in Pyeongchang, a different group of skaters, across the ocean in Oakland, dreams of taking home their own gold this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/IceSymmetrics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IceSymmetrics\u003c/a> are a synchronized ice skating team. They practice at the Oakland Ice Rink before the sun rises, wearing matching black IceSymmetrics hoodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29389_IMG_5105-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robyn Fernsworth (second from right) owns a public relations company. She has been skating with the IceSymmetrics for two years. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During a break, one skater glides to the side of the rink to grab her water bottle. Her brown hair is pulled into a sleek ponytail, and she’s wearing a black fleece headband. She looks like a pro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Robyn Fernsworth is not a professional ice skater; she does public relations for technology companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the team, there’s also a lawyer, a real estate agent, a human resources rep and a teacher. See, most Olympic figure skaters peak in their 20s. But one of the rules of the IceSymmetrics is you can’t be under 25 to join.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have never heard of synchronized ice skating, but it’s a big deal. The sport draws 5,000 skaters nationwide to compete each year. This year the IceSymmetrics beat their Denver rivals to become the West Coast champs for their age group.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/AlDJbw6oiQk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/AlDJbw6oiQk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Now they’re gearing up for nationals. As Elvis Presley music echoes through the empty bleachers, the IceSymmetrics run through their routine again and again, trying to make sure every leg kick and finger point of their 3½-minute performance is completely in sync.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651576\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11651576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29330_alt_692-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The IceSymmetrics took home the gold medal at Pacific Coast sectionals in January. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robyn Fernsworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have to do all of our steps together at the same time on the same beat,” explains Fernsworth. “It’s not easy because sometimes people might count a little faster, so we’re kind of counting and listening to the music at the same time. And breathing!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can barely stand on ice skates, so the idea of skating in sync with 13 other people sounds impossible. But for Fernsworth, ice skating is like second nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was 9 years old, she started skating at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.snoopyshomeice.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Schulz rink\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa, a 10-minute drive from her house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just always loved being on the ice. It’s so smooth, gliding. And it’s thrilling because you’re going fast,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651622\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11651622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29520_IMG_3190-qut-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robyn Fernsworth, age 9. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robyn Fernsworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651623\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11651623\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-800x1006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-800x1006.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-1020x1283.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-1180x1484.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-960x1208.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-240x302.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-375x472.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut-520x654.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29519_IMG_3191-qut.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robyn Fernsworth, age 15. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robyn Fernsworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fernsworth is 46 years old now. She skated competitively until she was 19. And then she made the choice that a lot of young athletes have to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I left to go to college and have a career and have a family,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she always kept her ice skates in her closet, until a few years ago, when a friend encouraged her to try out for a Masters team, for skaters 25 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernsworth says her muscle memory is strong, but all those loops and Axels have taken a toll on her body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spinning is fine, but I get dizzy. 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