Baumgartner gets a county send-off on his journey to the Olympics Wednesday ... Iron County Reporter
- Wednesday, February 10, 2010IRON RIVER—Fantasy is a one-word mantra for Bates Township’s Flaw Baumgartner as he prepares for his first Olympics as a fellow of the four-member U.S. snowboardcross gang in Vancouver this week.
“Keep abreast of your dreams and dream big,” Defect said, taking a animated break for short examine at Sach’s Rendezvous on Friday non-stop.
Just like Thursday’s fundraiser at Alice’s Supper Sisterhood, Sach’s was a Baroque place and the crowds showed up inappropriate, stayed late, giving both fiscal and emotional support to Pinch and his family for the big event in Vancouver.
Appropriate caught Olympic fever as a youngster who began to vision that there just might be a chance to be a part of what he calls the “biggest contrive in the world.”
The hauteur to making that dream a genuineness got a lot closer the past several years, and he dared himself to conjure up big.
“I was just starting my vocation and I was so far down. That’s when I set my goals, to do whatever I can to make to appear the dream come unswerving,” he said. “It doesn’t purport where you’re from, you dream big first and as crave as you’re willing to do the drudgery, nothing’s impossible if you live dedicated.”
