Saturday, December 15, 2012  Yesterday, Wikinews spent time with with Australian Paralympic skier Victoria Pendergast who was in Copper Mountain, Colorado for this week's IPC Nor-Am Cup. ((Wikinews)) I'm interviewing Victoria Pendergast who is an Australian female sit skier on the development team. Victoria Pendergast: Yer, that's right. ((Wikinews)) How have you been doing here [Copper Mountain] so far? Victoria Pendergast: Yer, its been alright. Like some races not so good, other races I was pretty happy with the results. We've got Winter Park to look forward to, so bit of a warm-up, but, trying to get results. ((Wikinews)) Before this [skiing] the other sport you've done is athletics? You competed at that for the games or was that somebody else? Victoria Pendergast: No, that was me. I did it for the school, did shot put and did swimming for a bit. ((Wikinews)) Why would someone switch from athletics to be a crazy mono skier? Victoria Pendergast: It was a bit of a crazy sort of events kinda went here with my family and then one thing lead to another and like wanted to give sit skiing a go. ((Wikinews)) Australia doesn't have many female sit skiers, are you shooting for Sochi? Victoria Pendergast: It would be nice to get it. It'd be a bit hard to get points to get into it but, you know, if I can get the points to get into Sochi, I've got some [...]. ((Wikinews)) Cool. Thank you very much. "Wikinews interviews Australian Paralympic skiers Jessica Gallagher and Eric Bickerton" — Wikinews, December 11, 2012 "Wikinews interviews Australian blind Paralympic skier Melissa Perrine" — Wikinews, December 10, 2012 "Wikinews interviews Australian Paralympic skier Andrew Bor" — Wikinews, December 11, 2012 "Wikinews interviews Australian Paralympic skiers Toby Kane, Cameron Rahles Rahbula, and Mitchell Gourley" — Wikinews, December 14, 2012
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