At Shaklee, we don’t just stand behind our products we stand behind the people who use them. For 30 years our products have powered some of the most elite athletes in the world, including the Vancouver Games medal-winning U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding.

The 2010 Games in Vancouver proved to be the best yet for the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding. Together they brought home 21 medals—more than double the count from the Torino Games in 2006.

Craig Blanchette is unstoppable. A four-time winner of the Portland (Ore.) Marathon, he holds 21 world records in elite wheelchair racing and a bronze medal from the Games in Seoul. Indeed, Craig knows what it takes to succeed and admits that although winning is great, it’s not everything. Rather, passion is what fuels him to do what he does. “It’s now or never,” he says.

Will Laurie Brandt ever call it quits? According to the 47-year-old, “It’s never over ’til it’s over.” Laurie placed first in the 2009 Leadville Silver Rush 50-mile Mountain Bike Race, beating 32 female finishers. Not too shabby for a full-time career woman who only recently returned to racing after taking time off to raise her two young children.

“Work smart and stick to whatever it is you’re doing.” That’s the motto Kent Bostick grew up with—and that’s exactly what he did when he took up cycling in his mid 20s. More than 30 years later, he’s still pedaling strong. He placed first in the 2009 USA Cycling Masters Road National Championship, is a world-record holder, and received the 2009 Best All-Around Rider Award for the 55–59 age group.

Eli Bremer is amazing. He fences, swims, rides horses, runs, and shoots. It’s hard to believe that this top-ranking pentathlete went from being an overweight kid with limited athletic ability to competing among the world’s best in the Beijing Games in 2008. For him, it’s about setting goals and having something to work toward.

When Sandra Gal received her first set of brightly-colored plastic golf clubs on her fifth birthday, she had no idea that it was the beginning of her career. Today, the 25-year-old is on her way to becoming one of the most respected golfers in the world. Sandra placed fifth at the 2009 LPGA Corning Classic, where she shot 17 under par and finished among the top 10 at the Wegmans Classic Tournament.

Bill Demong lives to compete. Make that—win. He garnered two World Championship medals and 11 World Cup podiums in 2009 alone. Call it warming up to his biggest accomplishment yet: becoming the first American ever to win gold in Nordic combined skiing event. The 29-year-old took the podium twice at the Vancouver Games—once for the individual 10 km race and once for the 4x5 km team relay.

Like his hero, Bill Koch, did when he became the first American skier to medal in a Nordic event at the 1976 Games, Kris Freeman is breaking new ice. Kris, aka “Bird,” has won multiple national championships, placed fourth at the 2009 World Ski Championship (missing the bronze medal by a mere 1.3 seconds), and competed in three events at the Vancouver Games.

There’s nothing like the rush of flying down an icy track at 100 mph—except maybe launching a metal ball through the air with explosive force. Bethany Hart has mastered both. A bobsledder in the winter and hammer-thrower in the summer, this former two-time NCAA All-American was the second-ranked hammer-thrower in the U.S. in 2005 and competed in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 trial Games.

Reilley Rankin knows a thing or two about determination. She went from winning several collegiate tournaments to spending 18 months in intense rehab as a result of a 2001 diving accident in which she broke three vertebrae, fractured her sternum, and bruised her heart, lungs, and aorta. It was an enormous setback for the golf pro, but the thought of quitting never crossed her mind.

When Jennifer Rodriguez switched from roller to inline speed skating in the early 1990s, she had no idea what to expect. Turns out, the Miami native went as far as Nagano to compete in the 1998 Games. Then Salt Lake City—where she won two bronze medals—and Torino for the 2002 and 2006 Games, respectively. And most recently, she competed in four events at the Vancouver Games, something she’d never thought she’d do after hanging up her skates in 2006.

“In marathon running and in life, there are no such things as unrealistic goals, only unrealistic time frames.” Words of wisdom from 41-year-old Carl Rundell, an elite marathoner who began training seriously at age 32. Within four years, he qualified for the 2004 U.S. Men’s Marathon Trials, and in 2008 he finished first at the U.S. Masters Championship 25K run.

If anybody can perfect the Speed Ball, Orbital 540, and the Raley—one of the most popular moves in wakeboarding—it’s Darin Shapiro. After all, he invented those maneuvers. A legend in the sport, Darin is considered to be “the winningest rider in history” with an impressive list of accomplishments. Among them, six Pro Tour championships, four Masters championships, and multiple gold and silver medals at the X Games.

Eighteen-year-old Ashley Wagner is a championship-caliber figure skater with an impressive list of accomplishments. Her motto? Persistence pays off. Recently, Ashley earned a fourth-place finish at the 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championship, beating 21 of the nation’s best. The following year, she finished the event with a bronze medal. “It’s all about focus and practice,” she says. “You have to fall 100 times before you get something perfect.”

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