a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wdKP6HuarYE/S40_8YtPVuI/AAAAAAAAAIg/z47M2tCszo8/s1600-h/Team_USANA_Crest_small.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 117px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wdKP6HuarYE/S40_8YtPVuI/AAAAAAAAAIg/z47M2tCszo8/s200/Team_USANA_Crest_small.jpg” alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444077831217698530″ border=”0″ //aNow that the 2010 Olympic Games has come to a close, I think it is important to communicate a few of the comments I received from our span style=”font-weight: bold;”Team USANA/span parent organizations. I hope your find their comments interesting.br /br /span style=”font-weight: bold;”Biathlon Canada/spanbr /blockquotea onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wdKP6HuarYE/S4092JQ7FAI/AAAAAAAAAIY/5YRPASRLwtk/s1600-h/biathlon_canada.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 166px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wdKP6HuarYE/S4092JQ7FAI/AAAAAAAAAIY/5YRPASRLwtk/s200/biathlon_canada.jpg” alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444075524969927682″ border=”0″ //a”Biathlon Canada would like to thank USANA for its tremendous support to all of our athletes and staff at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. One of our athletes has posted the best ever results for Canadian men in the history of our sport at the Olympic Games and we are excited about what the future holds for all of these young athletes as they take their experiences from these Games and go forward with new goals for the World Cup and 2014 Olympic Games.br /br /”Over the past month all of our athletes have been healthy, a great feat in sport where athletes are constantly traveling, living away from home, eating at different venues than their own homes, all which puts additional stress on the body’s immune system and its ability to recover.br /br /”The USANA products that our athletes take daily have definitely helped our team achieve this state of healthiness which in turn allows the athletes to focus more on their training and competitions.”br /br /div style=”text-align: right;”span style=”font-style: italic;”— Joanne Thomson, Executive Director, Biathlon Canada/span/div/blockquote span style=”font-weight: bold;”USA Luge/spanbr /blockquotea onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wdKP6HuarYE/S409hubUmJI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/BHP2mnyzDps/s1600-h/USA_Luge.png”img style=”margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 112px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wdKP6HuarYE/S409hubUmJI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/BHP2mnyzDps/s200/USA_Luge.png” alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444075174168402066″ border=”0″ //a”USANA has played an important role as our team prepared for the 2010 Games. Being competitive is a year-round commitment and USANA made that commitment to USA Luge in the years leading up to the Games. Having safe and tested nutritional products plays an important role in the physical development of our team, as well as letting them rest easy that a positive drug test through tainted supplements is not an issue.”span style=”font-style: italic;”br /br //spandiv style=”text-align: right;”span style=”font-style: italic;”— Gordy Sheer, Director of Marketing and Sponsorship, USA Luge/span/div/blockquotespan style=”font-weight: bold;”US Speedskating/spanbr /blockquotea onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wdKP6HuarYE/S409Zjw1sXI/AAAAAAAAAII/dbP4uLMN-9s/s1600-h/USSS.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 150px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wdKP6HuarYE/S409Zjw1sXI/AAAAAAAAAII/dbP4uLMN-9s/s200/USSS.jpg” alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444075033866908018″ border=”0″ //a”US Speedskating is truly honored to have USANA as a sponsor. Our athletes all benefit greatly from the products and they proudly skate knowing they have a strong backing from our USANA partners. The support received prior to the Olympic Games allows our athletes to reach their highest training potential and the additional support provided at the Olympic Games is appreciated by every athlete.br /br /”When you see our US Speedskating athletes performing at the Games, know that the USANA support has helped them in attaining this prestigious status. Thank you so much for your support of US Speedskating and our Olympic and aspiring athletes.”br /br /div style=”text-align: right; font-style: italic;”— Bob Crowley, Executive Director, US Speedskating/div/blockquotespan style=”font-style: italic;”span style=”font-weight: bold;”Note: /spanUSANA Vice President of Customer Servicespan style=”font-weight: bold;” Alan Bergstrom/span a href=”http://www.whatsupusana.com/search/label/Alan%20Bergstrom” target=”_blank”blogged/a for What’s Up, USANA? throughout the 2010 Winter Games./spandiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8885114825521789447-8691708668608857494?l=blogusana.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div

div style=”text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MldWhzeCeuM/SvLxigw4RMI/AAAAAAAAA9A/0fS7pzHgkIE/s1600-h/Benshoof_Hamlin_USA_Luge.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MldWhzeCeuM/SvLxigw4RMI/AAAAAAAAA9A/0fS7pzHgkIE/s400/Benshoof_Hamlin_USA_Luge.jpg” alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400644478383441090″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”span style=”font-style: italic;”Erin Hamlin and Tony Benshoof, of USA Luge/spanbr //span/divbr /As you may have seen if you’re following us on a href=”http://www.facebook.com/usanaathletes”Facebook/a (Athletes Page) or a href=”http://twitter.com/usanainc”Twitter/a, we had members of the USANA-sponsored USA Luge team at our offices earlier this week recording some video for us.br /br /Also this week, USANA’s Vice President of Customer Service span style=”font-weight: bold;”Alan Bergstrom/span joined the team at their training site in Park City.br /br /If you missed a href=”http://www.whatsupusana.com/2009/11/derek-parra-100-days-until-vancouver.html”the blog/a span style=”font-weight: bold;”Derek Parra/span (US Speedskating coach and USANA Associate) wrote a couple of days ago, be sure to check it out. And a href=”http://www.whatsupusana.com/2009/11/usana-athletes-winning-team.html”here’s another blog post/a with some updates on additional USANA-sponsored athletes…what a team!br /br /Here is Alan’s report…br /br /centerobject width=”320″ height=”266″ class=”BLOG_video_class” id=”BLOG_video-b4215c699b0283ab” classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAABqQx1oQmSnIaATdhug8I951a41LcToXCCHEoJ3eHXwCPtKKrCaBrZfMfWJFHwV-cp5fewFIQA_wMzlUfVq4ha3KmLNEOz1n_ddg36CCdV_KP2W2Uyc0JvUeHx2IzAgp-PbAQHfbQQhXYevVp_4goBtCq2i9oMMxtr7wgcoxxweUWwqX3tPOW_3UIzJ3Pppmp1IfV5AjQRu_y-J8EIygKyj3Eaho7-Qmgt46YWhvoeru%26sigh%3Dx21Iv0byFS17r2zaTAGO7b10l7A%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0amp;nogvlm=1amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Db4215c699b0283ab%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DNarA8ibftNCbV0fRu7larOcHMvEamp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den”param name=”bgcolor” value=”#FFFFFF”embed width=”320″ height=”266″ src=”http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAABqQx1oQmSnIaATdhug8I951a41LcToXCCHEoJ3eHXwCPtKKrCaBrZfMfWJFHwV-cp5fewFIQA_wMzlUfVq4ha3KmLNEOz1n_ddg36CCdV_KP2W2Uyc0JvUeHx2IzAgp-PbAQHfbQQhXYevVp_4goBtCq2i9oMMxtr7wgcoxxweUWwqX3tPOW_3UIzJ3Pppmp1IfV5AjQRu_y-J8EIygKyj3Eaho7-Qmgt46YWhvoeru%26sigh%3Dx21Iv0byFS17r2zaTAGO7b10l7A%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0amp;nogvlm=1amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Db4215c699b0283ab%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DNarA8ibftNCbV0fRu7larOcHMvEamp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”/embed/object/centerblockquoteHey everyone,br /br /I just spent some great time with our USA Luge Team who are training this week at the Olympic Park in Park City. Wow, were they moving fast down the track.br /br /They are headed to Whistler, B.C., next week to practice on the Olympic “Fastest Track in the World.” In order to get ready the team was making runs from the top of the track, normally the Bobsled start, and the women were coming within a couple of miles per hour of their previous times on the Whistler run.br /br /What a great bunch of athletes we have in USANA. They are giving it their all and doing what it takes to represent their countries in February. I hope you are all planning on watching and cheering them on to victory.br /br /It was a beautiful, sunny day in the mountains and it made me realize how glad I am to live close to the mountains and have the good health to recreate there. I was almost tempted to jump on one of those sleds!!!br /br /I’ll try to keep you informed as we start the a href=”http://www.vancouver2010.com/”countdown to Vancouver/a.br /br /Give ‘em health.br /br /Alan/blockquotediv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8885114825521789447-7952897472047447045?l=blogusana.blogspot.com’//div