Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast
The explosiveness of ski jumping, with athletes launching off a towering scaffold and soaring like a bird through the air. The aerobic energy of cross country skiing, with skiers powering up steep hills and accelerating on thin edge down sweeping turns in a head-to-head battle to the finish line. This is Ticket to Fly, the international ski jumping and nordic combined podcast. Each episode will take you inside the international world of ski jumping and nordic combined, bringing you into the start house and up close with the stars of the sport, hosted by noted nordic commentator Peter Graves.
Episodes
On National Girls and Women in Sport Day (Feb. 3, 2020), USA Nordic celebrates its own sport pioneers. In this episode of Ticket to Fly, host Peter Graves explores the pioneering efforts of nordic combined champion Tara Geraghty-Moats.
Skier Tara Geraghty-Moats is a modern-day pioneer! In the sport of nordic combined, which matches cross country skiing with ski jumping, she's the number one ranked woman in the world, blazin...
A new World Cup leader. Norway dominates. COVID makes an impact. And after a weekend in Niznhy Tigil, Russia, it's off to to the giant jump in Planica for Ski Flying World Championships. It's all on Ticket to Fly NEWS.
Ticket to Fly News brings you the latest updates from the the Viessmann FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Ruka, Finland. This week hosts Tom Kelly and Peter Graves speak with World Cup winners Markus Eisenbichler of Germany and Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud, as well as an exclusive interview with Eisenbichler on the eve of this weekend's World Cup in Nizhny Tigil, Russia.
Ticket to Fly News brings you the latest updates from the the Viessmann FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, opening Nov. 20 in Wisla, Poland. This week hosts Tom Kelly and Peter Graves speak with Austrians Stefan Kraft and Daniel Huber, Germany's Markus Eisenbichler and Karl Geiger, as well as Poland's Kamil Stoch. Canadian Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes provides an exclusive look inside his top-10 finish and U.S. nordic broadcast commentat...
In the 1990s, he was one of ski jumping’s greatest superstars. Fans packed stadiums from Bergisel to Bischofshofen to watch him fly. It was a dominant period for Austrian ski jumping, with Andi Goldberger winning three FIS World Cup season titles, two Four Hills crowns, 10 World Championship medals including two gold and a pair of Olympic medals.
Today, Goldi remains engaged in the sport as a fan and a television commen...
BILLY DEMONG: From Medals to Sport Leader
In a career that spanned nearly two decades, Billy Demong won six Olympic and World Championship medals, including a stunning Olympic in 2010. Today, he’s at the helm of a rapidly growing national sports organization, USA Nordic, and a voice nationally for youth sport.
How did it all begin for the kid from Vermontville, N.Y.? What inspired him to success? And how does his past ma...
COMPETING IN A COVID WORLD
On the eve of the 2020-21 season and a pandemic still gripping the world, every day offers new changes and challenges. USA Nordic ski jumpers Nina Lussi of Lake Placid, N.Y. and Andrew Urlaub from the Flying Eagles Ski Club in Eau Claire, Wis. experienced that firsthand this fall, competing in Europe at COVID-shortened FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix events.
Ski jumping commentator Peter Graves ...
Logan Sankey is just 22, but wise beyond her years. Since competing in the Youth Olympic Games at Lillehammer in 2016, she’s made the jump out of juniors, gotten through heart surgery and is making her way into the World Cup, traveling the world with the U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team.
She was born in Denver and dad had her on skis at age two. Soon it was up into the mountains every weekend (she skied every run on Steamb...
Longtime athlete, coach and program leader Jed Hinkley has experience at every level of the sport. He grew up in New Hampshire, skiing both alpine and cross country, as well as picking up ski jumping. A journeyman member of the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team, he was a 2002 Olympian. Today, he has taken over as sport director for USA Nordic. Hinkley got with legendary nordic commentator Peter Graves for an insightful look in...
TRANSCRIPT (NOTE time references are not accurate)
Ep 1 - Walter Hofer
Peter Graves: [00:00:09] Thank you very much, Tom Kelly, and welcome everybody to USA Nordic Ticket to Fly. We'll be talking to newsmakers in the sport of ski jumping and Nordic combined every month. And we're very, very happy to have all of you listeners with us. A very exciting show today. We are going to have Walter Hofer who for almost 30 years, was t...
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