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Jeremy Bloom was born 2 April 1982, in Fort Collins Colorado USA. An Olympic skier at age 19, he started skiing when he was three. He was a competitive alpine racer before turning to moguls. He made it to the 2002 Olympics. Leading up to the Olympics, he was garnering attention for his toned and extremely physically fit body. He consistently ranked in the top ten of "most sought after for information" on Olympic athletes.

At university he plays a lot of football! This multi-talented athlete postponed attending school on a football scholarship in order to follow his dream of participating in the Olympics.

It was an urge that Bloom first experienced at age three, when he learned to ski at the Keystone Colorado Resort. His mom, Char, an instructor there, taught Jeremy the basics, but his grandfather Jerry Bloom provided the incentive by tossing candy bars down the mountain during family ski weekends. For young Jeremy, who grew up in a health-food-only household, the prospect of a Hershey bar was enough to overcome his fears on Keystone's steepest trails. Soon Char and Jeremy's father, Larry, were looking back on black-diamond mogul runs to see their youngest son bumping along after them. "People would stop and stare," says Char. "They'd ask, 'Why aren't you entering him in competitions?'"

Char assented when Jeremy was five. His first competition was the Small World Cup, a local Alpine event. On his first run Jeremy tucked in and shot straight down the hill. "See those flags?" Char asked her son afterward. "This time, go around them." He nodded, heard the beep and ignored the flags again. Char threw up her hands in amused acquiescence: Her son, it seemed, was destined for straight-line skiing. He accomplished that goal; in fact, Bloom won the overall World Cup moguls' title in his first full season on the circuit.

Bloom's motto reflects his unrelenting drive to be the best in his athletic endeavors: "Compete like you are number one, train like you are number two."

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