Ever since she was nine years old, and watched Franz Klammer rocket to glory on skis in the 1976 Olympics, Olivia Sharp has been seduced by speed, and the dream of Wheaties Box greatness that will surely make her a??set for life.a?? As far flung as that goal seemed even three years earlier, while watching the 1984 Olympics from a hospital bed high on morphine and low on hope, now, as she arrives at the 1987 World Championships and the story begins, it seems like a possibility. Shut Up and Ski is a spirited, fictionalized account of the real challenges, misadventures and injuries that beset the US Ski Team in the year leading up to the 1988 Olympic Games, from the perspective of not-so-brave, terminally boyfriendless rookie downhill racer Olivia Sharp. This make or break year takes Olivia and her band of strong-willed yet woefully inexperienced teammates from Mt. Hood's snow-capped cinder-cone, to a searing hot stadium in Utah, from icicle-filled vans to plush corporate jets, from...

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