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Article: Local skier (and YouTube star) preps for Olympics Comcast helping out athletes.(Art Thiel)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Since the run-up to each Winter Games always occurs during church -- the football season -- the frozen Olympics have a way of sneaking up on most sports-loving Americans.
Even around here, when the next one is three hours up the street and three months away in Vancouver, B.C.
Which is why Scott Macartney was blown away seeing his mug on downtown billboards, as well as on TV commercials while he works out at the gym.It was like he was, well, Ichiro or Matt Hasselbeck. Or, as he put it last week, "Really cool."
Kirkland resident Macartney (Redmond High School, class of '96) is something of a big deal in Europe, because winter sports athletes are ...