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From Atlanta to Rio, Nash a living Olympics legend
- Updated: August 9, 2016
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Katerina Nash must have dreamed of the Olympics, growing up as a star athlete, attending a sports academy in the Czech Republic. But she probably didn’t picture her debut at the Summer Games.
Instead, the 18-year-old found herself in the start grid on a steamy day in Atlanta, perhaps as far as possible from the snow-packed tracks she trained on as a cross-country ski prodigy.
“I just happened to kind of pick up a mountain bike maybe two years before that and just did it as a fun summer off-season training,” Nash says. “I really enjoyed the sport. So when the opportunity came up to try to qualify for the Olympics I was like, ‘Yeah why not, I’ll just give it a try.”
In that first Olympics — for her and mountain biking alike — she was 19th out of 27, about 13 minutes behind Italian winner Paola Pezzo. “Atlanta was absolutely overwhelming for me,” Nash adds.
But just as quick as she’d flitted into mountain biking, …
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