One Page at a Time: Nick Page Writing His Moguls Career in Relentless Pursuit of 1% Better
Nick Page has been skiing moguls since he was 7 years old. He's now a two-time Olympian, fresh off competing in front of a crowd so loud he could hear it echoing up the mountain like a rock concert. And when you ask him what's next, and he talks about what he learned this month that he didn't know last month.
I’m in the process of interviewing 100% of this year's U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team and one theme has surfaced more consistently than any other: the world's best athletes are not obsessed with winning. They're obsessed with getting better.
Nick Page is an athlete who takes this mentality in stride. For him, the 1% isn't a mantra. It's a way of life.
In Charge and Still Writing
It’s safe to say that an Olympic Games represents the pinnacle of elite athletics. But for Nick, it’s just one page (albeit an exciting one) in his storied moguls career.
"It's painting up the whole story, from when I started when I was 7 years old, to inevitably when my career ends. There's this constant path of getting better. It's really easy to look at the Olympics and think that it's a huge milestone. But it isn't the ending."
Cortina didn't go exactly how he envisioned. He's the first to acknowledge that. But in our conversation from the Olympic Village just days after competition, his mind had already moved on through the disappointment.
"The Olympics does such a good job highlighting so many answers to questions of what you need to work on next. All of these light bulbs were going off in my head of the things I want to jump back into. For some of my weaknesses that showed here. Okay, well, now I know what those are. Now I can go attack them and make them my strengths."
The Crowd Isn't the Point
Cortina gave Page a full Olympic experience, the energy and camaraderie that was missing with Covid in Beijing. Family in the stands and a crowd loud enough that he could hear the chants from in the start gate.
"You look down and you just see a sea of people at the bottom of the course, and you could hear all that energy echoing up to you. When they announce your name, the whole crowd just goes electric like it's a rock concert."
And yet when it came time to drop in, none of that changed anything.
"Whether there's two people watching me at the bottom or there's 2,000….I'm still trying to ski the best run that I can. Nothing changes too much. It's just being able to harness that energy and use it in a positive way. You don't run away from it. You kind of run into it."
Run into it. Or rip moguls into it.
The Body Follows the Mind
Dual moguls made its Olympic debut in Cortina, and the internet noticed. Page's second-round matchup against Ikuma Horishima — the world's best, on the sport's biggest stage — went viral. And it's not hard to see why. Page went out of bounds early in the course. Horishima crossed the finish line backwards and flailing. Neither of them skied a clean run. And somehow, it was the most watchable thing to come out of the Games.
Page knew going in it was going to be a fight.
"When I saw the seeding come out and I had Ikuma in the second round…oh my god. In a normal World Cup, that matchup would have happened way later. We both had to push really hard, really early, and I think it kind of caught both of us off guard. You saw both of us make big mistakes."
He didn't advance. But the run itself became a moment for the sport.
Moguls has a reputation. The knee injuries. The wear and tear on the body. The comment sections full of people wincing just watching. Page doesn't reframes the risk of injury in a way that catches you off guard.
"I think you really see injuries most often when you get really passive, really defensive. It seems backwards, but being aggressive is what can really prevent injuries. When you're backing off, that's where things can go wrong really fast."
And then he takes it a step further.
"You can almost see that the psychological stress can really translate into what's going on physically. If you're able to stay in a very level-headed, calm place…most of the time…things go right."
The Next Chapter
With dual moguls now an Olympic event, Page has two disciplines to pour his process into and in classic Nick Page style, has already identified exactly where he can grow.
"Being able to look way down the line ahead of what my career could be…it's pretty exciting to know where it could go, just by giving it more time."
At it since he was 7. And just getting started!
ABOUT THIS SERIES
I'm Amy Wotovich, and I am on a mission to interview 100% of Team USA's 2026 Olympic and Paralympic athletes to create the most comprehensive mindset record of a single Games cycle. What do elite competitors actually believe about pressure, identity, failure, and joy? Nick Page is one of hundreds of athletes sharing their unfiltered answers. Follow the journey!
