She wasn’t even skiing for a result sheet. She talked officials into letting her ski, skiing essentially by herself. Championships in Utah, she wanted to ski combined. Her passion swung back to the unusual combination of ski jumping and cross country skiing that is nordic combined. Then she found ski jumping again, knocking out top 10 international finishes. An injury knocked her out of the sport so she shifted to biathlon, even training in Sweden. It has been a long trail for Geraghty-Moats, now 25. “It has been a game of patience and persistence to even get to the start.” “I have been looking forward to my first international nordic combined competition since I was a young girl,” she said. This past weekend in Oberwiesenthal, Germany, a former mining town in Saxony near the Czech Republic border, she put her stamp on her sport in the first ever elite-level international nordic combined Summer Grand Prix. Like Park City, Utah’s Lindsey Van, who pioneered the way for women’s ski jumping a decade ago, Geraghty-Moats is doing that for women’s nordic combined – the one remaining winter Olympic sport where women are still seeking representation. Vermont ski jumper Tara Geraghty-Moats is a pioneer. Synonyms: settler, colonist, colonizer, frontiersman, frontierswoman, explorer, trailblazer, a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.
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