You don't win the team event. You lose it.

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I said, 'Hey kid, I'll make you a deal: I'll hand you this U.S. ski team jacket and take you to Europe in two weeks, and it'll only last until you and I cross swords.' And he wasn't a cross country skier. He'd never done a local high school ski race. Everybody in the organization said, 'You can't do things like this, Tom.' Now when I tell that story I look like I knew what I was doing.

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