In this episode, we chat with Hailey Swirbul, who at just 24 years old has been competing in the top end of the sport for quite some time.a bronze medal The 4 x 3.3k relay at the 2017 Junior World Championships in Soldier Hollow put Haley and her relay teammates Julia Kahn, Hannah Halbosen and Katherine Ogden big on the map of U.S. skiing. Haley has spent the majority of her last four years racing World Cups, scoring her 48 starts and her 1 individual podium at the World Cup. 10k skate She is currently preparing for the World Championships in Planica, Slovenia on February 22nd.
Following last year’s Beijing Olympics, Hailey vacated The contrast between expectations and reality in the Olympic experience, especially how the high stress and pressure living conditions in Europe leading up to the Olympics had a negative impact on her mental health and made her feel increasingly unsustainable. She wondered if she wanted to continue skiing, but in the end decided to keep skiing. new approachShe took a full-time engineering job over the summer and decided to forgo the first and second periods of the World Cup, competing domestically in the SuperTour and the US Championships instead.
As we speak, this approach rejuvenated her love of the sport and her motivation for training and the sacrifices it required. She has finished on the podium in all but one event and remains the SuperTour leader at the time of the record. sweep All four events at the National Championships in Houghton, Michigan in early January. She seamlessly returned to the World Cup in Les Rousses, France, where she reached the semi-finals. classic sprint, followed by the top 20 results in the 20,000 Mass Start Classic the next day. She sprinted again the following weekend in Toblak, Italy in her heat, and the next day she had a 10km free where she placed 26th and a long weekend where she capped off the US Women’s Scramble. relay The team ended the day standing with a bronze medal.
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