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Every Olympic skier arriving in China this past week or so has had some version of the same experience: the highway stretches toward the mountains northwest of Beijing, and there in the distance, stark against a landscape of jagged, brown earth, is a lonely ribbon of white, unseen by any of them until that moment: the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre, host of the Alpine competition at these Winter Games.
Starting Friday, Feb. 4, 12 Lake Tahoe athletes joined competitors from around the world to compete in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
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For members of Vermont's "Skiing Cochrans" clan, competing in an Olympics is a right of passage. A family tradition.
They say it takes 10,000 hours of training to make an Olympian - 36,000 million seconds of sweat and sacrifice.