ITA Winter Athletes in Full Swing and Vancouver Bound!

This blog entry comes from a rainy San Diego, California...very different from the past few weeks where we have had temperature in the mid 80's and most of us here at the Olympic Training Center have been training like its the middle of Spring.

As the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games are approaching in under 20 days, the first news of fellow In the Arena athletes punching their tickets are rolling in! Emily Azevedo, a bobsled athlete, and member of the 2 man USA Team III, has just been named to her first Olympic Team.

Follow along with Emily as he Olympic Dream approaches here:

http://in-the-arena-emily.blogspot.com/

As other winter events are in the midst of qualifying and fierce competitions, In the Arena athletes Torin Koos and Laura Valaas both took Gold at the Methow Valley SuperTour Sprint Event. At the same Super Tour event, ITA athletes went 1-2-3 as Caitlin Compton won gold and Laura Valaas and Nicole De Yong picked up silver and bronze respectively in the 15k thriller. You can follow each one of these athletes here:

Torin Koos: http://in-the-arena-torin.blogspot.com/

Laura Valas: http://in-the-arena-laura.blogspot.com/

Caitlin Compton: http://in-the-arena-caitlin.blogspot.com/

Nicole De Yong: http://in-the-arena-nicole.blogspot.com/

The Altius Track Club, that was launched at the beginning of the year has gotten off to an unexpectedly slow start. Although Ian Waltz and Stacy Dragila have began personal training sessions, an ITA merger looks to be in the near future and maybe within a week. Hopefully I will have some quality community service news to report on in the upcoming weeks...as the saying goes, its been way too long!

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