Latest Nordic combined Podcast Episodes
Taylor Fletcher: Veteran Heads to Fourth Olympics
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - January 02, 2022 16:42 - 46 minutesSteamboat 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 h...
Jeff Hastings: Pride of Norwich, VT
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - November 14, 2021 18:45 - 50 minutesFor 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 c...
Andreas Küttel: World Champion Reminisces About the Ski Jumping Family
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - June 19, 2021 20:30 - 39 minutesThe 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...
Sarah Hendrickson: Passionate Sport Pioneer
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - April 18, 2021 21:55 - 41 minutesSince 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 pu...
Johnny Spillane: Reflections of a Champion
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - April 02, 2021 00:14 - 44 minutesOver 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
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - January 31, 2021 17:36 - 34 minutesOn 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!...
Alex Stöckl: Building a Championship Team in Norway
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - January 22, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutesA 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
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - January 04, 2021 12:00 - 33 minutesMike 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 c...
Four Hills Tournament: Ski Jumping's Biggest Week
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - December 26, 2020 17:21 - 50 minutesVierschanzen 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...
Ticket to Fly NEWS: Dec. 9, 2020
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - December 10, 2020 00:46 - 17 minutesA 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
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - December 04, 2020 14:21 - 13 minutesTicket 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 intervie...
Ticket to Fly News: Nov. 26, 2020
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - November 26, 2020 14:11 - 17 minutesTicket 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 P...
Andi Goldberger: Superstar Career for Austrian Ski Jumper Farm Boy
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - November 22, 2020 13:20 - 52 minutesIn 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 Champio...
Ticket to Fly News: Nov. 19, 2020
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - November 19, 2020 13:25 - 21 minutesTicket 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 Jum...
Billy Demong: From Medals to Sport Leader
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - November 15, 2020 13:30 - 49 minutesBILLY 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 na...
Nina Lussi-Andrew Urlaub: Competing in a COVID World
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - November 05, 2020 13:05 - 42 minutesCOMPETING 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 tha...
Logan Sankey
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - August 31, 2020 13:18 - 40 minutesLogan 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....
Logan Sankey: Wisdom Guides Young Ski Jumper
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - August 31, 2020 13:18 - 40 minutesLogan 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. ...
Jed Hinkley: Guiding the Future at USA Nordic
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - July 22, 2020 23:00 - 40 minutesLongtime 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. Toda...
Walter Hofer: Legendary FIS Ski Jumping Leader
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - July 15, 2020 12:00 - 41 minutesTRANSCRIPT (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...
Preview Ticket to Ride
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - July 08, 2020 12:00 - 10 minutesTicket 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 tal...
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