Rosie Brennan competes during the women's sprint free cross-country skiing competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China.
Brennan, a 33-year-old Utah native and Anchorage resident, was cut not once but twice from the U.S. Ski Team. She’s fought through a car crash injuries and others, mononucleosis and nearly walking away from the sport. The grinding sprint course also favored Brennan. It’s at altitude, a setting where she’s produced good results in the past, and the snow was cold and slow — a tough combination for some of pure sprinters who lack Brennan’s endurance capacity.
Then, in her quarterfinal heat — the first in a series of head-to-head knockout races — she tripped as soon as the starter’s gun went off. She did. Brennan picked herself up and went in such fierce pursuit that she’d reeled in the pack on the first hill, then managed to place second in the heat — a performance Grover described as “nothing short of miraculous.”In her next heat, a semifinal, Brennan was stuck racing against Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist, the two Swedes who went on to win gold and silver medals. The heat was scorching fast, but Brennan skied well enough to advance.
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