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Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. The flick of a finger led the year-old Astoria native from his teaching job to lying on a sled hurtling himself down an icy mountain at more than 70 miles an hour. Santagato tom santagato currently the No, tom santagato.

His podcast, The Basement Yard , has reached number one on iTunes. He has three older siblings, Thomas, Shannon and Keith. Santagato attended the St. Francis Preparatory School. Santagato began to produce video content at the age of 13, focusing on short movies, sketches and song parodies. Santagato has credited comedians like George Carlin , Richard Pryor , and Robin Williams as his major comedic influences.

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Gracie Clapp-Taylor was a pole vault star in high school, good enough to compete in college at Florida International in Miami, where she's still enrolled as a student. Until the Vancouver Olympics, she had never heard of skeleton. And now she's got a national title on her resume. Clapp-Taylor, a year-old from Jacksonville, Fla. She's admittedly a long shot to make the team headed to the Sochi Olympics in February -- the Pyeongchang Games in are her more realistic goal -- but if nothing else, the win on the start track in Lake Placid, N. I hope to be there one day and earn that. I know it's not now, but I'm looking forward to Pyeongchang.

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As a kid sleigh riding down a snowy hill in Astoria Park , he never even dreamed of one day competing for a spot on the United States Olympic Team. But for the last year, Thomas Santagato , 26, has been in upstate Lake Placid at the Olympic training center competing for a spot on the USA team in the Olympics in Russia in a sport called skeleton — a kind of one-man bobsledding — where top athletes race down a snowy track at 80 mph. Santagato played baseball and football for Immaculate Conception Youth Program near the Con Ed plant in Astoria and would later play safety and center back on the St. Francis Prep football team. After graduating from college, Santagato taught physical education to special ed kids at Public School in Fresh Meadows. But I looked at the physical requirements and I thought I met those criteria. So to pass the time, I filled out the application. When I got there, I realized I was the right size for skeleton. Everybody was just about my size. After four days at the camp, a coach approached me and said that if I stuck with it that in a couple of years I could be really good.

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His Vine account went inactive in when Vine permanently ended uploads. Just three athletes make the Olympic team. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use mdy dates from March Creator Awards. New York City , United States. Retrieved October 25, Retrieved February 12, Article Talk. Published Feb. Toggle limited content width. It was scary. Hilltop Views. Santagato maintains a close relationship with several of his childhood friends, many of whom have appeared in his videos, most notably Frank Alvarez, who has co-hosted Santagato's podcast The Basement Yard since Archived from the original on July 21, Santagato works as a waiter at the White Face Lodge in Lake Placid and as a personal trainer at Matrix Fitness back home to make ends meet.

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Creator Awards. Santagato has credited comedians like George Carlin , Richard Pryor , and Robin Williams as his major comedic influences. In October , Santagato announced that he had collaborated with two coworkers from his former workplace, Elite Daily, to introduce a new telecommunications company called Wing. Tube Filter. A recruiting ad for the U. Just a few months later, after forgetting ever filling out the application, he received an invitation. He has also named Jenna Marbles as an early influence on his YouTube channel. Following a few days of runs moving incrementally up the mountain, he was told by U. He has a solid chance to make the Olympics squad headed to Sochi, Russia. Archived from the original on July 21, Retrieved June 20, Article Talk. Archived from the original on July 19, Last updated: April 19, By he hopes to be in Russia competing for gold.