(JNS) Adam (“A.J.”) Edelman was in the middle of a blood test when he found out that the Israeli bobsleigh team had qualified for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan.
“There was a needle in my arm,” Edelman told JNS. “I was looking at my phone to distract myself, because I don’t do very well with needles, and the little message indicator kind of popped down with a message saying ‘congratulations.’”
“I basically jumped out of the chair, and the needle pulled out of the arm,” he said.
This will be Edelman’s second trip to the Olympics, and he told JNS that it felt like a “monumental weight” of 12 years lifted off his shoulders.
“I never wanted to be an Olympian,” he said. “For me, the Olympics are a tool, and they’re a tool of changing how the Jewish community views itself in sport.”
The Boston-born athlete’s passion is getting young Jewish kids involved in sports. The Israeli Olympic program asked him...
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