Bryan Fletcher victorious in battle of brothers at Nordic Combined Olympic Trials

So Bryan Fletcher just kept pushing, thrusting each ski pole into the snow a few seconds away from the finish line. Once he crossed it solo, overcoming a one-minute and 24-second time gap to earn the only Olympic spot awarded to the first-place finisher, Fletcher bent down, let out a roar of elation and collapsed to the ground.

“I would say I gave it everything I had, and if the finish line was 10 feet further,” he said, “I don’t know if I would’ve made it.”