The best day is relay day at the world games, usually the final day, but here, it's being run mid week. Every one of our skiers is on a relay except the 3 50/100 m skiers, so it's a crazy day! USA has four teams, so all hands are on deck to help. Our start was at 10:00am with USA1 and USA 2 on board first starting with 26 other teams from through out the world. Crazy start to be sure! We had practice relay tags the day before and again the morning of the race, so our skiers were dialed in well. Some of the other countries (surprisingly Norway) had near disasters in the exchange zone, not so our crew. It's a 4x1km course and one our skiers knew well. The second start was with USA 3 and 4 who started with 12 teams. In the end, our least experienced skiers in team 4 took the gold medal in their division, surprising all of us. The others captured 5ths k a 6th place.
Later in the day, the 100 meter skiers took to the snow and skied well. The race might be short and sweet, but the fans, and all of our others skiers cheered them on. Those 3 brought home 2 golds and a silver and couldn't have been happier. The awards ceremony is like a big party and hearing U,S,A yelled out and then Bruce Springsteen music playing them off the stage was great!
Today (Thursday) we start 2.5 km and 500 meters. Medals to the 1/2km folks later. Finals for the 2.5 are Friday, the last day of competition. No rain today, but temps again in the 50s. We're all getting used to this tropical skiing!
