Larisa Yurkiw of Canada takes 2nd place during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women’s Downhill on January 16, 2015 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. (Photo by Christophe Pallot/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)
Team Larissa was started by Canadian Alpine Skier, Larissa Yurkiw after she was cut from the Canadian National Alpine Ski Team in April 2013. This could’ve been a devastating blow to all her dreams but all it did was spur her on.
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Correction: She did compete with Canada at the Sochi Olympics
The type of person you are is demonstrated by how you face rejection, how you face adversity. When you depend on someone else or other people to give you permission to do the thing you love the most, you are giving away your power.
That is true in healing, when you want to make health a reality, no matter how sick or injured you are. That is true when you’ve got dreams and you’re striving to make them real.
Larissa Yurkiw did both. She managed to come back from a devastating knee injury. It took two years to recover from it, but she recovered. Only to be then cut by the National team. Life is SO cruel.
How would it make you feel? Would you give up? I suppose it depends on circumstances, where you are in your head space. Maybe for Larissa Yurkiw it wasn’t time to give up. She’s done extremely well skiing as an independent.
She’s back on the Canadian team BUT she refused financial support from Alpine Canada.
She made it to the podium FOUR times just between December 2015 and January 2016.
She went back to Val d’Isere where she had her near career-ending knee injury in 2009. She CONQUERED her mountain on December 19, 2015 by coming in 3rd!
She created Team Larissa and found the sponsors who believed in her ability to compete. What’s really in it for them? In Canada, I don’t think a whole lot. We don’t tend to celebrate all our athletes as much as Europeans and Americans do. It took a lot of guts for her to do something extraordinary like this. Team Larissa is a testimonial to her own strong belief that she wasn’t done yet.
Healing is like this too. Will you go by what your MD tells you, when there is nothing that you can do about a certain situation? That you have to take pharmaceutical drugs that you don’t want to take?
Have you got something to prove too? I’m sure Yurkiw went through a whole range of emotions before she settled down or was immediately hit by a burst of inspiration. I don’t know how it happened, but she is creating the life she wants right now.
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