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U.S. Alpine Skiers Fall To Britain—But Have A Lot Of Fun—At Inaugural Olympic Team Event
Feb 27, 2018 | Team USA
Team USA posted a feature story about the debut of the alpine team event at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, which mentions that four of six members of Team USA were Dartmouth graduates, including Dartmouth engineer David Chodounsky '08.
"Due to bad luck, David Chodounsky, Nolan Kasper, Megan McJames and Tricia Mangan did not advance beyond the first-round 1/8 final against Great Britain," wrote Team USA. "Chodounsky lost his pole at the start and couldn't lay down the run that he wanted.
"'It would have been nice to do better,' said Chodounsky after his run. 'This is one of my favorite events, for sure. I feel like I’m pretty good at it, just a little bit of bad luck today.'
"Without a pole, Chodounsky could not cross-block the paneled gates and instead had to ski 'old school,' or around the gates rather than pushing them out of the way.
"'But we had a fast team,' he added. 'We were training together yesterday. We don’t get to train this very often so it was a lot of fun yesterday just working together, seeing how fast we could get out of the start.'"
A post shared by David Chodounsky (@dchodounsky) on Feb 25, 2018 at 4:37pm PST
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