TPM Episode 332: Ted Ligety, Olympic Gold Medalist, World Champion Ski Racer

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Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Ted Ligety is one of the greatest US ski racers in history. He’s won two Olympic gold medals and is a five-time world champion who’s won 25 World Cup events. He’s a legend… but it wasn’t always easy for the late-blooming Ted. In part 1 of the podcast, we talk about finding skiing, being bullied, growing into his body, Tanner Hall, The Winter School, making the US Ski Team, and much more. World Champion Felix Neureuther asks the Inappropriate Questions

Ted Ligety Show Notes:

3:00: How hard it was to watch racing and what he would do to change ski racing, and NASTAR

14:00: Coming from a non-ski family, finding racing, not making the team, figuring out carving skis, and how that shaped his technique.

20:00: Rollerblade: They invented inline skating and make the best skates on the planet.

Best Day Brewing: All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar.

Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.

23:00: World Cup in Park City, injected courses, confidence, the Newschool movement, being the small kid and being bullied, and how it hardened him.

29:00: The Winter School, Tanner Hall, figuring out speed, his senior year, and the 2002 Olympics

41:00: High Cascade Snowboard Camp: The legendary snowboard camp

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Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.

43:00: Making the US Ski D Team, his first World Cup, and partying

53:00: Is it cutthroat when you’re racing for money, moving up on the US team, bumping people off the team, and hazing

63:00: Beaver Creek dominance, making the Olympic Team, and money

69:00: Inappropriate Questions with Felix Neureuther

Transcript

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0:00.0	Have a seat on your porcelain throne.
0:02.3	It's time to talk some shit on the Powell movement.
0:13.5	Welcome to the Powell movement.
0:17.1	I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week I have nothing to talk about during my intro.
0:21.6	It's amazing.
0:22.6	My wife, Ann, is in a holding pattern until early fall for her big surgery and she's cancer-free,
0:27.6	and the Powls are getting ready to enjoy summer.
0:30.6	Ann and I are going to stay around Seattle for the most part.
0:32.6	I'll make a couple of trips down to Hood and what I'm really excited for is my trip to Boulder in July to meet up with one of my best friends from high school to go see the final tour of
0:41.7	Dead and Company. I'll go see two shows and spend one night in the parking lot, and my brain is
0:47.0	scared, but it's all so excited. But my summer doesn't even come close to comparing to what my kids up to. His summer starts out with two weeks
0:54.6	in Sweden and Rome. He'll go to Lollapalooza, eat breakfast at the Sistine Chapel, and he's got an
1:00.3	amazing trip planned with one of his friends and their family. Then it's back to Seattle for two
1:04.5	weeks, and then a week of Sikhs skate camp, and then a week at Rojobith Beach, and then summer's
1:09.2	over because football starts.
1:15.7	I'm so jealous. While I grew up privileged, my summers were all about two months of Jewish sleepaway camp every year, so instead of Friday night services and color war, he gets Travis Scott
1:21.2	and the Coliseum. Why am I sharing this information? I have no clue. What I should be doing
1:26.4	is telling you about my guest this week. He's an absolute legend. And when I say that, I have no clue. What I should be doing is telling you about my guest this week.
1:28.2	He's an absolute legend. And when I say that, I really mean it. Think two-time Olympic gold
1:33.6	medalists, five-time world champion ski racer with 336 World Cup starts and 25 wins. I'm talking
1:40.5	about Ted Liggety, and his story's an amazing one that isn't as cut and dry as one would think.
1:45.5	I'm not going to spoil any of the story, though, so there's no more talking about Ted in this intro.
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