I shared an alley with the company she works at for a few years. They treated it like it was part of their office space, having exercise classes several mornings a week that blocked off the entire street. Their employees would stand beneath my bedroom window to make calls and take smoke breaks. (I mostly work from home). One recruiter spent the majority of her work days there, either making work calls or bitching about her job to her coworkers. So when I heard where this skier worked I got a good laugh and thought that it was perfectly typical. It's one of those many bay area tech companies that doesn't seem to have much purpose but has presumably lots of VC money, given their large staff and shiny new offices.
To me this move is a pretty spot on example of tech cynicism; disruption is inherently positive and who cares if you do things the honorable way. Also crazy entitlement with zero shame.
I'd personally be embarrassed to make the Olympics by spending a ton of money and time to game the system with no skills, but I'm not surprised that someone from that world doesn't see it that way.
I started skiing late and have never done any sort of inversion on skis. I'd much rather learn how to do that for my own personal satisfaction than exploit a loophole to be a fake Olympian and not be able to do the simplest trick at the Games.
