Is there fame in US ski racing?

If you're a skier and follow that sport, even a tiny bit, you probably have heard about Ted Ligety. You see, Ted has been raised Park City and lives in Park City. Yet, if you read our local newspaper, the Park Record, you wouldn’t realize it; this mid-week addition only had a short blurb on the second page of its section mentionning without much fanfare his World Cup title victory.

It's not just the Park City's paper of course, it's our local radio or TV station, our City and Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Bureau. No one seems to care much, let alone know, what a great skier we've got in town.

So what's the way left for a US Ski Racer to attain fame in America? Probably what Lindsey Vonn just did by hooking up with Tiger Wood. So if Taylor Swift was to become Ligety's girlfriend, would our champion finally get the credit he deserves? Perhaps, but not guaranteed. The morale of this story: If you're a ski racing and need to bask in fame, don't ever think of moving to America!