Four years later, the Fairfield, Conn. native is not only in Beijing with Team USA but has her sights set on making some noise while she’s there.
“But that pushed me so much further these past four years to know that that’s what I really want. I don’t want to just go to the Olympics to go to the Olympics. I want to go and I want to be a competitor there. I want to make a difference. I want to be in the mix of things and I want to medal.”
A 2012 graduate of Fairfield Warde High School, who began speedskating when she was nine years old, Santos came into Beijing hoping to capture USA’s first women’s short-track medal since 2010. To get there, she used the scary hand injury to change her mental perspective.Late in 2017, Santos was practicing for a World Cup event in China when another skater fell and collided with her, with the skater’s blade cutting open Santos’ left hand.
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