Allison Baver
Allison Baver
Allison Baveris an American short track speed skater. Baver trains with the US permanent winter sports Olympic team, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the 2005-2006 season, she was ranked third overall in the World Rankings...
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When I was in fourth grade, my family, we used to always go to the roller skating rink. There was this cute boy there that I liked. It kind of influenced me to keep going.
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When I was going to Penn State, I was so new to ice skating that I only skated once a week, and that was in Harrisburg, three hours away. It wasn't my No. 1 focus.
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It was so incredibly cool to see everybody skate so fast.
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It really breaks my heart to watch that. I know he's the best skater in the world, and he really didn't have a chance to show that. But the Olympics aren't over.
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It really breaks my heart to see it, because I know he's the best skater in the world in my eyes. But the Olympics are not over.
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It really breaks my heart. One of the best skaters in the world didn't have a chance to show it tonight.
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Once I got there and started skating every day, I knew I had to make a full commitment. Somebody told me, a coach a long time ago, that if you want to make the Olympic team, you have to dedicate your entire life, sacrifice everything. I wasn't ready to do that before.
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I noticed it traveling with our team. We?re the only team that has coaches from three other countries and athletes that are all different in terms of our diversity. Look at our team as a whole. It is the United States. . . . It?s a melting pot.
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I guess they asked me because I am getting my masters degree in business at the New York Institute of Technology.