How?s it possible there?s only one mom on the US Olympic team"
If you ask us, the fact that there is only one mother representing the US in this winter’s Olympic Games is sort of strange. After all, some of the skills that are required to be a world-class athlete (like the ability to multi-task, persistence through all manner of ups and downs, a tolerance for some amount of pain) all sound oddly like qualities you need to be a mom.
Nevertheless, there’s only one mother competing in the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, and she just earned a gold medal. Kikkan Randall, 35, won gold in cross-country skiing, a sport known for extreme speed and need for total coordination. Along with teammate Jessie Diggins, she won top place in the team sprint freestyle race on Wednesday, Feb 21.
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Randall, whose hometown is the snowy Anchorage, Alaska, became a mother 22 months ago, with the arrival of her son, Breck. The timing of her pregnancy?between two Olympics and in a non-World Cup year? was hardly a coincidence. Though she did have to sit out one season of training while pregnant with him, she told The Washington Post.
She took about three weeks off after her son’s birth to “really take a chill,” but then got back to training, bringin...
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