“This is a proper ski race,” one British athlete said to me in the mixed zone.
“It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” my editor warned me.
And I got two scoops this week! I’m almost a real reporter! We’ll get to that later.
As we approached the World Cup finals weekend in Lake Placid, Nordic Insights, another news outlet I write for, made plans to cover the action. Being local, I’d be boots on the ground all weekend. My colleague Adele would come from Yale University on Saturday. I’d write up all the men’s races. Adele and Gavin, my editor, would write the women’s races.




