Two months before the NFL playoffs began and before Carolina Panthers’ fans knew their team was going to the Super Bowl, Blowing Rock News Publisher David Rogers already secured media credentials and bought a plane ticket to Los Angeles – to cover the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.
See three former and seven current members of ZAP Fitness, which trains post-collegiate, Olympic hopeful distance runners in Blowing Rock, earned an opportunity to run in the trials, which will decide who competes in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
But after the Panthers kept winning and the NFL subsequently granted Blowing Rock News media credentials for one writer and photographer, Rogers changed his itinerary.