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After a long summer spent among some athletic training and weightlifting competitions, Katie Uhlaender, star of the Women's Skeleton World feels ready to tackle the next big winter season.
Sunday 29 September 2013 4 minutes reading time
The twenty nine year old American, World Champion 2012 and winner of two crystal balls told the newspaper The Washington Post that he had spent the first summer of his career without suffering injury or physical problems, "For the first time in my life as an athlete I feel in form to 100%. I think this positive situation has arisen from the great work that I did during the summer and especially thanks to the support team of coaches who have followed me in this period of time. However I am aware that this favorable moment will not last forever I will try to exploit it to the fullest. "
Katie, eagerly awaiting the start of the next season mainly because he wants to redeem the disappointment suffered four years ago in Vancouver, where he was one of the protagonists of the most anticipated. On that occasion, the American skelettonista was in a difficult psychological situation and mental as it was still shocked and hurt by the premature death of his father, Ted Uhlaender, former baseball player of the North American top league MLB.
"With the death of my father, my life has completely changed," he said Uhlaender, "it took me two to three years to respond fully to this tragic circumstance. I had to change my life completely. I had to start thinking of myself first and then to others. "
The global star skeleton, has never hidden that you want to bet in the future to participate in the next Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in weightlifting. Uhlaender over the summer has so successfully participated also at the national championships in the summer specialty, where albeit with little specific preparation has got an excellent second place in the category 138 pounds.
Despite this digression in weightlifting, Katie is currently strongly focused on the skeleton tant'' is that in early October should begin to make the first descents on the gut of Lake Placid.
The athlete of Colorado with his partner Noelle Pikus-Pace comprises one of the strongest couples on the world stage that make the American team one of the teams that should be considered in the next season.
"There are all the prerequisites for next season Team USA can get great satisfaction from the Women's Skeleton," said Tuffy Latour optimist head coach of the team stars stripes.
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