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I remember watching the Olympics one year (maybe it was Los Angeles?), watching the men's gymnastics, and realizing that I couldn't do that. Not just that who I am now couldn't do that, but that in order to have ever been somebody who could do that, I would have had to start fifteen years earlier. It was a really profound moment for me, when I realized that something wasn't possible anymore.
Incidentally, I went to a high school in Salt Lake City that had a very strong competitive ski program. Picabo Street was in the class a year ahead of me, and Hillary Lindh was a couple years ahead of her.
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