After enduring surgery, recovery and lingering doubt about his level of performance, Anchorage skier Scott Patterson said he’s “ready to throw down” at the Olympics. He’ll compete next in the 15-kilometer classic race at 10 p.m. Thursday, Alaska time:
Alaska cross-country skier Scott Patterson poses for a photo at the Wednesday, February 9 ceremony where his U.S. Ski Team teammate Jessie Diggins was awarded a bronze medal for her third-place finish in the skate sprint at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Patterson’s 11th-place result in the 30-kilometer skiathlon reasserts his status as one of America’s very best male distance skiers. And it also caps his recovery from a fractured scaphoid bone that observers describe as nothing short of miraculous. Patterson, 30, was on track for a banner season before the wrist fracture. His summer training had gone well, and he’d smashed the course record and his previous personal bests“He was heading toward a career best, for sure,” said Erik Flora, Patterson’s coach at the Alaska Pacific University club team.
For those questioning why Patterson jeopardized his ski season by taking the risks entailed in mountain biking, he wants you to know: He’d navigated far more challenging terrain earlier in his ride, and rides cautiously. But another series of X-rays in October showed that the bone wasn’t healing, which forced Patterson to opt for surgery at the Steadman Clinic in Colorado: two screws in his wrist that will be there permanently. The news, he said, was “pretty devastating.”
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