Right now, he’s within striking distance of a World Cup podium, on the outskirts, still just biding his time. Following Sunday’s seventh-place finish in the men’s 1,000-meter final in the final day of the ISU long track World Cup stop in Kearns, Garcia said he was hoping for a Top-6 finish.
“Definitely don’t want to be winning right now,” he added. “If I won, that would’ve been great, but I probably would’ve been a little bit scared, too.”
As World Cup wrapped up its appearance at the Utah Olympic Oval in the Salt Lake City suburb Sunday, the Americans left their home ice, long-dubbed “The Fastest Ice on Earth” without a single podium in the 10 individual racing classifications.