Competitor Blogs

by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 15, 2014 Getting up this morning was difficult for us late-nighters. We had event tickets to see the Ladies Super-G on the…

by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 16, 2014 Today has been a good day! Two good things have happened: a new hotel and Ice Dancing! What more could a…

by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 14, 2014 We want to start off today by saying Happy Valentines Day to everyone! Today we saw no live skating but…

by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte We took yesterday off! We saw no events, entered no trains, and just stayed in our hotel complex. Adelaide did homework, we worked…

by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 11, 2014 Today the United States won its first ever Gold in Luge singles, and it was by a woman, Erin Hamlin…

By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte We slept until 3:00 P.M. today! This isn’t really surprising when you consider the type of day we had yesterday and the fact…

By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 9, 2014 As you may recall from our last post, we survived a 2 hour and 40 minute ride with a lost…

by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 9, 2014 We haven’t mentioned in our previous posts just how hard it has been to get back to our hotel every…

By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte We headed directly to the Olympic Park after waking up today via the train. The train follows the coast very closely, sometimes just…

By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte Finally after a huge nights sleep we woke up and went to breakfast! The hotel redeemed itself quite a bit because the food…

Photos and Blog by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte Our landing in Sochi has been rough, to say the least. Fortunately not our actual landing. In fact, that was…

By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 5, 2014 To say we are excited does not truly express the myriad of feelings we are experiencing as we begin our…

Laurence Fournier-Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen are competing in their first season as a team representing Sorensen’s home country of Denmark.  Earlier this month, they competed in Torun, Poland at the…

Kaitlin Hawayek recaps her experience at the 2013/14 JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan. Hello again! Its been a week since I returned from Japan and I must say I have…

Sorry there wasn’t an update last night. I kind of slept 80% of the day. But I promise today’s blog will be different. I swear to give you the whole…