USOC announces Cooking with Team USA with celebrity chef Richard Blais

The United States Olympic Committee today released season two of Cooking with Team USA, an original web series on TeamUSA.org featuring celebrity chef Richard Blais and Team USA athletes as they make delicious, easy meals in the teaching kitchen at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Guardar

The United States Olympic Committee today released season two of Cooking with Team USA, an original web series on TeamUSA.org featuring celebrity chef Richard Blais and Team USA athletes as they make delicious, easy meals in the teaching kitchen at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Blais – a successful chef, cookbook author and television personality – brings out a side of U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes fans don’t often see. All 15 episodes of the web series are now available on TeamUSA.org/CookingWithTeamUSA along with the recipes for fans to try at home.

"It's truly the biggest honor to get to share the stage with some of the world's most elite athletes," said Blais. "Spending time with them and sharing some of my culinary insights at the U.S. Olympic Training Center was a dream come true. Whether you're an athlete training for Rio or just looking to elevate your food game, I'm really excited to share these recipes and the amazing athletes' stories."

Athletes making appearances in the series alongside Blais include:

Chuck Aoki (wheelchair rugby) 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Jason Brown (figure skating) 2014 Olympian Michelle Carter (track and field) two-time Olympian (2008, 2012); 2016 Olympic nominee Emma Coburn (track and field) 2012 Olympian; 2016 Olympic nominee Alyson Dudek (speedskating) two-time Olympian (2010, 2014) Tucker Dupree (Para-swimming) two-time Paralympian (2008, 2012); three-time Paralympic medalist; 2016 Paralympic nominee Kelly Griffin (rugby) 2015 NACRA Sevens champion Erin Hamlin (luge) three-time Olympian (2006, 2010, 2014); Olympic bronze medalist Kayla Harrison (judo) 2012 Olympic gold medalist; 2016 Olympic nominee Gus Kenworthy (freeskiing) 2014 Olympic silver medalist Steven Langton (bobsled) two-time Olympian (2010, 2014); two-time Olympic bronze medalist Elana Meyers Taylor (bobsled) two-time Olympian (2010, 2014); two-time Olympic medalist Alysia Montaño (track and field) 2012 Olympian Nic Taylor (bobsled) Igls 2013 World Cup team bronze medalist Jamie Whitmore (Para-cycling) nine-time world champion (road, six; track, three) Kara Winger (track and field) two-time Olympian (2008, 2012); 2016 Olympic nominee Russ Winger (track and field) 2015 USATF Outdoor Championships runner-up in discus Dagmara Wozniak (fencing) 2012 Olympian; 2016 Olympic nomineeSeason one of Cooking with Team USA launched with a 20-episode series that generated more than 2 million views. The 2015 video series was presented by Kellogg’s and featured Olympic figure skating champion Brian Boitano making delicious, easy meals alongside Team USA athletes.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Still images and digital embed codes of the web series are available for editorial use. Contact tommy.schield@usoc.org.

About the USOC

Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the United States Olympic Committee serves as both the National Olympic Committee and National Paralympic Committee for the United States. As such, the USOC is responsible for the training, entering and funding of U.S. teams for the Olympic, Paralympic, Youth Olympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games, while serving as a steward of the Olympic and Paralympic movements throughout the country. For more information, visit TeamUSA.org.

For more information, please contact:

United States Olympic Committee

1 Olympic Plaza

Colorado Springs, CO 80909

20 Years at #1: Your best source of news about the Olympics is www.aroundtherings.com, for subscribers only

Guardar

Últimas Noticias

Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons

Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons

Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024

She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024

Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris

Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris

Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years

The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years

Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”

The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”