Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -The explosiveness of ski jumping, with athletes launching off a towering scaffold and soaring like a bird through the air. The aerobic energy of cross country skiing, with skiers powering up steep hills and accelerating on thin edge down sweeping turns in a head-to-head battle to the finish line. This is Ticket to Fly, the international ski jumping and nordic combined podcast. Each episode will take you inside the international world of ski jumping and nordic combined, bringing you into the start house and up close with the stars of the sport, hosted by noted nordic commentator Peter Graves.
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Taylor Fletcher: Veteran Heads to Fourth Olympics
January 02, 2022 16:42 - 46 minutes - 64 MBSteamboat 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 ...
Jeff Hastings: Pride of Norwich, VT
November 14, 2021 18:45 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBFor 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 f...
Andreas Küttel: World Champion Reminisces About the Ski Jumping Family
June 19, 2021 20:30 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBThe 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.
Sarah Hendrickson: Passionate Sport Pioneer
April 18, 2021 21:55 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBSince 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.
Johnny Spillane: Reflections of a Champion
April 02, 2021 00:14 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBOver 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.
Tara Geraghty-Moats: Blazing a Pathway for Women
January 31, 2021 17:36 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBOn 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...
Alex Stöckl: Building a Championship Team in Norway
January 22, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBA 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.
Mike Holland: Four Hills Champ Turned Coach
January 04, 2021 12:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBMike 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 ...
Four Hills Tournament: Ski Jumping's Biggest Week
December 26, 2020 17:21 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBVierschanzen Tournee - the Four Hills Tournament - is ski jumping's biggest week. From towering ski jumps at Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on to the legendary hills at Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, Austria, ski jumping's annual holiday tournament attracts the eyes of the sports world every year. Veteran media director Ingo Jensen takes us inside the legendary event with host Peter Graves.
Ticket to Fly NEWS: Dec. 9, 2020
December 10, 2020 00:46 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBA new World Cup leader. Norway dominates. COVID makes an impact. And after a weekend in Niznhy Tigil, Russia, it's off to to the giant jump in Planica for Ski Flying World Championships. It's all on Ticket to Fly NEWS.
Ticket to Fly NEWS: Dec. 3, 2020
December 04, 2020 14:21 - 13 minutes - 18 MBTicket to Fly News brings you the latest updates from the the Viessmann FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Ruka, Finland. This week hosts Tom Kelly and Peter Graves speak with World Cup winners Markus Eisenbichler of Germany and Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud, as well as an exclusive interview with Eisenbichler on the eve of this weekend's World Cup in Nizhny Tigil, Russia.
Ticket to Fly News: Nov. 26, 2020
November 26, 2020 14:11 - 17 minutes - 16 MBTicket to Fly News brings you the latest updates from the the Viessmann FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, opening Nov. 20 in Wisla, Poland. This week hosts Tom Kelly and Peter Graves speak with Austrians Stefan Kraft and Daniel Huber, Germany's Markus Eisenbichler and Karl Geiger, as well as Poland's Kamil Stoch. Canadian Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes provides an exclusive look inside his top-10 finish and U.S. nordic broadcast commentator Chad Salmela provides a live update from the jumps in Ruka...
Andi Goldberger: Superstar Career for Austrian Ski Jumper Farm Boy
November 22, 2020 13:20 - 52 minutes - 71.6 MBIn the 1990s, he was one of ski jumping’s greatest superstars. Fans packed stadiums from Bergisel to Bischofshofen to watch him fly. It was a dominant period for Austrian ski jumping, with Andi Goldberger winning three FIS World Cup season titles, two Four Hills crowns, 10 World Championship medals including two gold and a pair of Olympic medals. Today, Goldi remains engaged in the sport as a fan and a television commentator. He recalls fondly those years when he was a fan favorite...
Ticket to Fly News: Nov. 19, 2020
November 19, 2020 13:25 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBTicket to Fly News brings you the latest updates from the the Viessmann FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, opening Nov. 20 in Wisla, Poland. This week hosts Tom Kelly and Peter Grave speak with Austrian ski jumping superstar Andi Goldberger, USA Nordic ski jumper Casey Larson and new FIS Ski Jumping Director Sandro Pertile.
Billy Demong: From Medals to Sport Leader
November 15, 2020 13:30 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MBBILLY DEMONG: From Medals to Sport Leader In a career that spanned nearly two decades, Billy Demong won six Olympic and World Championship medals, including a stunning Olympic in 2010. Today, he’s at the helm of a rapidly growing national sports organization, USA Nordic, and a voice nationally for youth sport. How did it all begin for the kid from Vermontville, N.Y.? What inspired him to success? And how does his past manifest itself in his vision for USA Nordic? Peter Graves wal...
Nina Lussi-Andrew Urlaub: Competing in a COVID World
November 05, 2020 13:05 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MBCOMPETING IN A COVID WORLD On the eve of the 2020-21 season and a pandemic still gripping the world, every day offers new changes and challenges. USA Nordic ski jumpers Nina Lussi of Lake Placid, N.Y. and Andrew Urlaub from the Flying Eagles Ski Club in Eau Claire, Wis. experienced that firsthand this fall, competing in Europe at COVID-shortened FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix events. Ski jumping commentator Peter Graves caught up with the two ski jumpers with an insightful conversatio...
Logan Sankey
August 31, 2020 13:18 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBLogan Sankey got her start as a young girl skiing alpine at Steamboat, coloring in every run she skied on a trail map. But when she found ski jumping, she was hooked. Today, she's a veteran of the Youth Olympic Games, Junior World Championships and a rising leader on the USA Nordic national team. Host Peter Graves talks to Sankey about her career, the team dynamic and the heart surgery she went through just two years ago.
Logan Sankey: Wisdom Guides Young Ski Jumper
August 31, 2020 13:18 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBLogan Sankey is just 22, but wise beyond her years. Since competing in the Youth Olympic Games at Lillehammer in 2016, she’s made the jump out of juniors, gotten through heart surgery and is making her way into the World Cup, traveling the world with the U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team. She was born in Denver and dad had her on skis at age two. Soon it was up into the mountains every weekend (she skied every run on Steamboat’s Mt. Werner when she was six), eventually moving to Steamb...
Jed Hinkley: Guiding the Future at USA Nordic
July 22, 2020 23:00 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBLongtime athlete, coach and program leader Jed Hinkley has experience at every level of the sport. He grew up in New Hampshire, skiing both alpine and cross country, as well as picking up ski jumping. A journeyman member of the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team, he was a 2002 Olympian. Today, he has taken over as sport director for USA Nordic. Hinkley got with legendary nordic commentator Peter Graves for an insightful look into his past and his vision for USA Nordic. How did you get i...
Walter Hofer: Legendary FIS Ski Jumping Leader
July 15, 2020 12:00 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBTRANSCRIPT (NOTE time references are not accurate) Ep 1 - Walter Hofer Peter Graves: [00:00:09] Thank you very much, Tom Kelly, and welcome everybody to USA Nordic Ticket to Fly. We'll be talking to newsmakers in the sport of ski jumping and Nordic combined every month. And we're very, very happy to have all of you listeners with us. A very exciting show today. We are going to have Walter Hofer who for almost 30 years, was the FIS ski jump race director. He has done a wonderful jo...
Preview Ticket to Ride
July 08, 2020 12:00 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBTicket to Fly from USA Nordic featuring noted nordic commentator Peter Graves will take you inside the international world of ski jumping and nordic combined. In this special Ticket to Ride preview, sport leader Tom Kelly and Olympian Ben Berend join Peter Graves to share stories and talk about the thrilling sports of ski jumping and nordic combined