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Sports and Life, an Olympian's View is a collection of 133 stories, essays and commentaries covering a wide variety of topics related to sports and life. For two decades, John Morton broadcast short commentaries on Vermont Public Radio and wrote a monthly column in the regional newspaper Vermont Sports Today. Morton was an Olympic biathlete (Sapporo '72 and Innsbruck '76) and a Nordic ski coach (Dartmouth College '78-'89). His stories related to skiing were published in 2020 as Celebrate Winter. Sports and Life contains stories and commentaries dealing with everything except skiing. The book is divided into three sections, the first contains personal experiences including an article recounting a pioneering Outward Bound project joining American Vietnam vets with younger, Soviet veterans of their conflict in Afghanistan. The second section is devoted to stories related to family, including three pieces dealing with the author and his daughter's adventures on Vermont's Long Trail. The third section contains observations on national sports issues like Lance Armstrong and Joe Paterno, gun violence and small town, Little League baseball. The book provides the unique perspective of a successful athlete and enthusiastic participant, a coach and sports advocate and finally, a keen observer and occasional critic of contemporary sports.

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John Morton has participated in ten Winter Olympic Games as anathlete, a coach, the biathlon team leader, chief of course or, more recently, enthusiastic U.S. biathlon team fan. He has attended scores of nationalchampionships, world championships, biathlon world cup competitions, and the World University Games.After 11 years as head coach of Men's Skiing at Dartmouth College, he wrote Don't Look Back, a comprehensive guide to cross-country skiracing. In 1998, he published A Medal of Honor, a novel about the WinterOlympics. In 2020 he published Celebrate Winter, a collection of stories andcommentaries related to skiing and the Winter Olympics. He was acommentator for Vermont Public Radio and a monthly columnist forVermont Sports Today (a monthly, regional newspaper) for almost twodecades. His articles on the outdoors have appeared in more than twodozen publications.Morton is also the founder of Morton Trails, and has spent the past 33years designing nearly 260 recreational trails and competition venuesacross the country. Recent projects include design of a world classbiathlon facility in Brillion, WI; design of a Nordic competition venue atBogus Basin, ID; reconfiguration of trails for Dartmouth College inHanover, NH, and Holderness School in Plymouth, NH, to accommodatesnowmaking and lights, as well as several trail networks for private landowners in the Northeast.

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