3/2/2010 -
Sammamish downhill skier races in Whistler
By Chantelle Lusebrink
Yina Moe-Lange looks toward 2014 Olympics
WHISTLER, British Columbia
Sammamish skier Yina Moe-Lange rests after completing the second race in the ladies’ giant slalom at the Whistler Creekside venue. By Andrea Collins
The cold rush of snow, blazing fast speeds and butterflies marked 16-year-old Yina Moe-Lange’s Olympic debut.
Moe-Lange, a Sammamish resident skiing for Denmark, put the pedal to the metal the second day of competition, shaving her time dramatically to place 47th out of 60 competitors in the second run of the ladies’ giant slalom Feb. 25.
“I was super nervous yesterday,” she said of the first race, held Feb. 24. “Everything was so different. There were more people there that wouldn’t normally be there at a race. The thought of knowing that was tough.
“I got the first start out of the way and skied today more like I’ve skied every other race in every other course.”
By the second day of competition, the butterflies floated away and what was left, for one of the youngest competitors in the games, was sheer athletic ability.
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