Bryce Bennett does not mince words, which makes him fun to converse with. The tallest man on the World Cup circuit also takes the title for longest Arc City episode to date--but the full listen is worth it, especially his advice to young skiers near the end. Bryce has a keen eye for many aspects of the sport, and we covered a lot of them, including equipment fine-tuning, the high injury rate in World Cup downhill, the US development system, trying to be a leader, and grit, among others. Followers of the infamous 2020 College Skiing debate may be excited to know that Bryce addressed that as well.

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Another year, another ski team on the chopping block. While it’s not certain we can save the Colorado Mountain Ski Team, it’s at least worth telling their story, because they fill a crucial role in the American ski racing world, and they do it quite well. I talked with CMC head coach Scott Tanner and senior ski team member Matthew Macaluso about their team: the success of recent members, its affordability, and all the relevant details concerning its potential dismantling. They got a good thing going on over there in Steamboat Springs, aka: “Ski Town USA.”

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Mike Day has witnessed a lot of skiing greatness firsthand. He’s coached Bode Miller, Ted Ligety, and Mikaela Shiffrin, among others. And he graciously let us plumb the depths of his knowledge: Bode stories, observations of Hirscher, the common thread through all champions’ mindsets, a hypothetical debate about the skiing improvements in the last 10 years, and many more fully-developed pearls of alpine skiing wisdom. There’s a small Skiing History Nugget at the end, also.

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This podcast is presented by Ski Racing Media and partnered with SKICOSMOS