US ski team’s Alice Merryweather speeding toward prominence
Alice Merryweather has a personal journal, although she doesn’t write in it a whole lot. It’s actually kind of a secret. Her mother, Liz, didn’t even know about it.
But in early March, the night before she was to race the downhill at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships in Are, Sweden, something compelled her to make an entry.
“I have written two pages in it and I’ve had the thing for two years,” Merryweather said. “So I wrote in it I feel really confident and everything comes down to tomorrow. Everything that I’ve worked for and everything that I’ve wanted, and I feel ready for it. Tomorrow is going to be my day.”
She won, by two-hundreths of a second.
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