posted 02/15/10 07:50 AM | updated 02/15/10 12:46 PM
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Update: Morgan Arritola 2nd American in Ladies 10km Freestyle at the Olympics

Ketchum resident Morgan Arritola, a member of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Olympic Development Team races this morning. Her start time is 11:20:30 Mountain Time. NBC will start its broadcast at Noon. Morgan is one of the feature athletes in the Sun Valley Champions program run by the Sun Valley/Ketchum Chamber and Visitor's Bureau

Update: Arritola finished as the 2nd American in the 10km Freestyle just 4 places behind the top American. Overall she was 34th place out of 78 racers putting her in the top half of the Olympic field. Her time was 27:04.4 which was 2:06.0 behind the winner.

Diamond Sun Productions put together a video from the good luck send-off for Morgan at the Sun Valley Club. Her coach, Rick Kapala comments on Morgan's work ethic.

 

Morgan shown at the Canmore World Cup ascending a steep hill

Training 6 months ago in New Zealand. Morgan discusses & demonstrates her technique with Andy Newell

 

Just to show it's not all fun & games, the following clips are from strength training at High Altitude Fitness

 

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