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  • Taylor Fletcher: Veteran Heads to Fourth Olympics
    2022/01/02
    Steamboat Springs native Taylor Fletcher claimed a spot on his fourth Olympic team with a win in the Christmas Day Olympic Trials in Lake Placid. In his Ticket to Fly interview with Peter Graves, Fletcher speaks to the evolution he's experienced in nordic combined and the bright future he sees for future USA stars in the sport. It's an insightful look into the unique sport of nordic combined and Fletcher's own approach, how it has changed over the years and how he is approaching the Beijing Games.
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    47 分
  • Jeff Hastings: Pride of Norwich, VT
    2021/11/14
    For the last few decades, few communities have produced more Olympians than Norwich, VT. In 1984, Jeff Hastings came within an eyelash of the first U.S. ski jumping Olympic medal since 1924. Today, Hastings continues to give back to the sport as a behind the scenes leader. His longtime commentary for NBC brought the sport to millions. Ticket to Fly host Peter Graves catches with Hastings on the eve of the 2021/22 Olympic season to look back at Sarajevo 1984 and to look ahead at the future of ski jumping in America.
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    51 分
  • Andreas Küttel: World Champion Reminisces About the Ski Jumping Family
    2021/06/19
    The ski jumping family vividly recalls that day in 2009 when Swiss Andreas Küttel became a world champion in Liberec. Growing up in the small Swiss village of Einsiedln, Küttel became captivated by ski jumping which took from from rolling hills in the midwestern USA to towering scaffolds in Japan. Host Peter Graves talks with the personable Küttel about his career and the impact ski jumping had on his life.
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    40 分
  • Sarah Hendrickson: Passionate Sport Pioneer
    2021/04/18
    Since she followed her brother off a ski jump at age six, world champion and Olympian Sarah Hendrickson's life has revolved around her passion for ski jumping. In this insightful interview with Ticket to Fly host Peter Graves, Hendrickson shares the highs and the lows of a career that put her at the pinnacle of the sport as she advocated for women's ski jumping, found success at the highest level and is now continuing to give back.
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    41 分
  • Johnny Spillane: Reflections of a Champion
    2021/04/02
    Over the span of a decade, Johnny Spillane led the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team to its greatest heights with a World Championship title and three Olympic medals. Today, he reflects on his career from his boyhood home in Steamboat Springs with Ticket to Fly host Peter Graves.
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    45 分
  • Tara Geraghty-Moats: Blazing a Pathway for Women
    2021/01/31

    On National Girls and Women in Sport Day (Feb. 3, 2020), USA Nordic celebrates its own sport pioneers. In this episode of Ticket to Fly, host Peter Graves explores the pioneering efforts of nordic combined champion Tara Geraghty-Moats.

    Skier Tara Geraghty-Moats is a modern-day pioneer! In the sport of nordic combined, which matches cross country skiing with ski jumping, she's the number one ranked woman in the world, blazing a pathway for her sport and female athletes. She talks to Ticket to Fly about her sport's upcoming World Championship debut and the push for Olympic inclusion in 2026.

    Growing up in Vermont’s Upper Valley, a hotbed of Olympic talent, she tried her hand at many sports from freestyle skiing to biathlon to cross country skiing. But she saw an opportunity to make a difference in nordic combined, and has been the leader internationally in moving her sport from debut to Continental Cup to World Cup and now World Championships.

    Geraghty-Moats has been living and training in Lillehammer, Norway this winter. It has been a season of lifetime achievement and day-to-day frustrations as COVID impacts the debut season of the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup for women. In an already small schedule, events in Lillehammer and Otepää, Estonia were canceled. Lillehammer was rescheduled but then canceled again after pandemic border closures in Norway.

    In December, Geraghty-Moats won her sport’s World Cup debut at a rescheduled event in Ramsau, Austria. She now has her sights set on February 27 in Oberstdorf, Germany for the World Championships debut. And hopeful inclusion in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan-Corina, Italy is still on the horizon.

    How did you find your love of sport growing up in Vermont?
    I just love to do all sorts of sports, especially winter sports. I was a ski jumper from a very young age. I did biathlon starting at 17. I started cross country racing when I was eight. And I also did some freestyle competitions when I was quite young. I first saw some ski jumps at Oak Hill in Hanover, New Hampshire, right by Dartmouth College when I was cross country skiing with the local ski club. And I thought it looked like a pretty neat sport to try.

    After a tough all of training due to COVID, how did you approach the World Cup?
    I was really, really proud with how I handled the World Cup. I had very, very low expectations going in and I just tried to focus on small technique aspects and do the level best I could with the training I had had. It was amazing. I don't think I've ever really got nervous for a competition. I think that partially it was the pressure of the fact that this was the first ever World Cup for women's nordic combined. I knew that whoever won that event would go down in history as the first ever winner of a women's nordic combined World Cup.

    How important has your training base in Lillehammer been for you?
    You can definitely feel the Olympic legacy that the ‘94 games left and I'm training at all of those venues. The gym that I go to was actually at the opening ceremony venue. And also the legendary Birkebeiner Stadium was actually where I was just this morning doing intervals.

    How important is your team of USA Nordic athletes to you?
    It's amazing having other team members who are women. And while they definitely come to me sometimes with questions or looking for some opinions, I like to think of myself more as a teammate to them and they’re teammates to me. They work just as hard as me. And I know that if they're given enough support in the coming years, they'll be medal contenders.

    Tune in to Ticket to Fly
    What is Tara’s outlook on the future for women’s nordic combined? What advice does she have for young athletes? And how important it was for her to have home cooked meals from mom during her visits with Tara during her long stay in Europe this winter.

    Fans can tune in to Ticket to Fly to hear Peter Graves’ full interview with Tara Geraghty-Moats. It’s available on all major podcast platforms. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review for Ticket to Fly: The USA Nordic Podcast.

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    35 分
  • Alex Stöckl: Building a Championship Team in Norway
    2021/01/22
    A decade ago, Austrian ski jumping coach Alex Stöckl took over the Norwegian program. Imagine moving into the very birthplace of the sport? Today, Stöckl is one of the most respected coaches in the sport. And his Norwegian ski jumpers are leading the FIS World Cup tour.
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    45 分
  • Mike Holland: Four Hills Champ Turned Coach
    2021/01/04
    Mike Holland is one of America's most successful ski jumpers. The two-time Olympian is the only U.S. athlete to win an event in the prestigious Four Hills Tournee with his 1989 victory in Bischofshofen, Austria. An engineer by trade, today Holland pursues his passion as a volunteer ski coach - honored in 2020 as U.S. Ski & Snowboard's Development Coach of the Year. Holland talks with Ticket to Fly host Peter Graves his passion for getting kids into sport and relives memories of that magical win in 1989. In an opening segment, Peter Graves and Tom Kelly update the 2020-21 Four Hills Tournee after three of the four events.
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    34 分