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When training for any sport, you need to get your entire body in shape; however winter sports workouts focus primarily on the low...

Just before sitting down to pen this month’s column, I came down with a bad cold—from stomach pains and nausea to the eventual fe...

Going for Broke All medals are not made equal; some change lives. It was February, 2006, at the Torino Winter Olympics. Th...

As we move deeper into fall and the chill of winter draws near, the season’s first snowfall enters everyone’s mind. Ski and snowb...

Watching a performance by a world-class athlete, is your reaction, “Oh, I’d love to be able to do that,” or perhaps a “Yeah, mayb...

I was born in the deep snow country of Niigata. My father, a ski instructor, had big dreams for me as a skier, and his passio...