Dane Spencer, though long since retired from the World Cup, has remained in the thick of American ski racing. He has been behind numerous successful return-to-snow injury comebacks among current U.S. Ski Team athletes, as well as a concerted push through his independent camps to help educate young racers about the finer details of equipment maintenance—in addition to ski technique. Dane was teammates with both Ted Ligety and Bode Miller, so—Arc City protocol—we dug up some fantastic stories. Dane has a million other theories and anecdotes, including one about the time he almost died. And the Skiing History Nugget is back! It’s about the rapid increase in ski racing retirement age.

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Paula Moltzan continues to trend upwards—her bronze medal at the World Championships was just another step. Of course, I ask her about her stellar results recently, but also about her team (one of my favorites on the World Cup), her youth at the slalom factory on Buck Hill in Minnesota, having her husband as her technician, her influence on young skiers, her time off of the US Ski Team attending the University of Vermont, the advice she gets from Mikaela Shiffrin, and her all-out style that gives her fans heart palpitations and sometimes ends with her spinning in a circle at high speeds. Also, this week there’s a small mailbag at the end (don’t forget to send me emails!).

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Bryce Bennett does not mince words, which makes him fun to converse with. The tallest man on the World Cup circuit also takes the title for longest Arc City episode to date--but the full listen is worth it, especially his advice to young skiers near the end. Bryce has a keen eye for many aspects of the sport, and we covered a lot of them, including equipment fine-tuning, the high injury rate in World Cup downhill, the US development system, trying to be a leader, and grit, among others. Followers of the infamous 2020 College Skiing debate may be excited to know that Bryce addressed that as well.

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