2014 Winter Olympics: American Julia Mancuso Wins Bronze

Short Bio of Julia Mancuso:
Julia Mancuso is a World Cup alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Group. Birthed in Reno, Nevada, she was the gold champion in the huge slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics and the silver champion in both downhill and integrated at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Born: March 9, 1984 (age 29), Reno, Nevada, United States
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Weight: 140 lbs (64 kg)
Nationality: American
Parents: Ciro Mancuso
Education: The Park City Winter School, The Winter Sports School in Park City

Julia Mancuso gained the Usa its initial Alpine skiing award at the Sochi Video games Monday, taking bronze in women's extremely incorporated and boosting her track record for flexibility and cold-blooded nerves. The record-setting efficiency (it is Mancuso's 4th award in three Olympics) makes her a platform favorite in Wednesday's downhill, where she could match Bode Miller's American record of 5 Olympic awards.

"I skied my heart out," claimed Mancuso, a free-spirited Californian. "That was really hard. It was a truly, truly hard slalom run. I knew I simply needed to give my best effort. It sure didn't really feel excellent." Super integrated, the modern-day variation of skiing's oldest occasion, is a two-part race: one run of downhill and one run of slalom.

Each requires its very own procedure, devices and conditioning. Mancuso was the fastest racer in the morning's downhill run, then survived a wearing away slalom course to done with a bundled time merely great enough for third location.

Bronze medalist United States' Julia Mancuso presents with the UNITED STATE flag after a blossom event at the Alpine ski destination in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

The persistent master of extremely combined, Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany, efficiently guarded her Vancouver gold in case with a total time of 2 mins, 34.62 secs, 4 tenths of a second faster compared to runner-up Nicole Hosp of Austria. Mancuso was one more 0.13 seconds back. She committed the race to the memory of her grandfather, enthusiastic skier Denny Tuffanelli, that died on Feb. 3.

To explain the one-of-a-kind obstacle of incredibly incorporated, Hoefl-Riesch used the instance of her January auto racing routine on the World Cup tour, that included three weeks in which she was nearly specifically focused on the speed events of downhill and super G.

"I have much less slalom training contrasted to the females that are merely doing tech races," she claimed. "They could check their equipment, they could train slalom, they could take times off, and I am just on the downhill skis all day."

At the Rosa Khutor resort Monday, warm temperature levels softened the icy slalom hillside, and the tracks that early racers left in the surface area developed ruts that aided excursion up 9 of 31 racers in the race. Some went out in excruciating crashes, consisting of Canadian award competitor Marie-Michele Gagnon, that disjointed her left shoulder.

Mancuso always appears to prosper in such tough health conditions. A gifted sportsmen that expanded up skiing powder at Squaw Valley, Calif., Mancuso entered the slalom with a half-second head start many thanks to her dazzling performance in the morning's downhill run. (That run was contested on a much shorter model of the one that will certainly be utilized for Wednesday's downhill medal race.).

Maria Hoefl-Riesch the gold, Nicole Hosp nabbed the silver and Julia Mancuso won the bronze in Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

Mancuso is 29, but she was once a prodigy. Only 14 years old when the UNITED STATE Ski Team recognized her for a development program, she has competed on the World Cup tour given that age 15. En route she has always increased to the occasion at champion nationalities, breaking from depressions precisely when the stakes are greatest.

Mancuso is now the 3rd American Winter months Olympian to collect awards at three consecutive Winter Olympics. Her initial was available in gigantic slalom at Torino in 2006 (one more messy race track). She gained 2 silver medals at the Vancouver Gamings in 2010, one in extremely integrated and the various other in downhill, where the only racer to defeat her to the finish line that day was her everlasting opponent, Lindsey Vonn, who is remaining these Olympics with a damaged knee.

"Skiing and maturing with somebody like Lindsey, that's just amazing on the World Cup, and damaging records left and right there, to have something that I could crack records in at the exact same time," claimed Mancuso.

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