…Doherty is also the only woodturner on the team — and perhaps the only woodturner at these Olympic Winter Games. Or any Olympic Games.
Outside biathlon, Doherty is a woodturner, making beautiful bowls and pieces of art from native New England hardwoods. The process of woodturning has actually helped him as an athlete.
Doherty was introduced to woodturning by another family friend who cross-country skied at Great Glen Trails north of Center Conway. The friend would bring his lathe to a Christmas craft show at Great Glen, and Doherty was intrigued by the process.
“He was very open,” said Doherty of the family friend. “So I would go over to his house, and he would teach me [how to use a lathe].”
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