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ESPN Classic - Injuries haven't stopped greatest U.S. skier  Picabo Street reacts after winning the gold medal in the Women's Super-G at the ... did we mention that Picabo Street is the greatest downhill skier -- male or female -- in ... The following year, she became a household name at the Winter Olympic ... what no American skier had ever done before by winning the World Cup title,...
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Picabo Street - Wikipedia  Picabo Street is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at 1996 ... Women's alpine skiing ... Street also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995 and 1996, the first American woman to do so, along with a nine World...
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Picabo Street | American skier | Britannica.com  Street earned two World Cup downhill titles (199495 and 199596), and, noted ... the 199798 season and surprised many when she won the supergiant slalom at ... title in 1995, American athlete Picabo Street became the first U.S. skier to win a ... Whether it's on the pitch, the links, the ice, the courts, or the tracks, women...
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PREVIEW LADIES' ALPINE SKIING  2016/17 WORLD CUP ... - FIS  Oct 18, 2016 ... Anna Veith (previously known as Fenninger) will return this season ... She also led the alpine combined standings in 2014/15. > Veith can ... Vonn has won 20 World Cup titles, the most of all men and women ... Vonn's eight downhill crystal globes are the most among men and ... she was victorious in 1995.
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Lindsey Vonn - Wikipedia  Lindsey Caroline Vonn (/vn/) (ne Kildow; born October 18, 1984) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She has won four World Cup overall championshipsone of only two female ... She has also won the record eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (20082013, 2015,...
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United States Takes Home Three Medals at ... - US Figure Skating  Mar 25, 2016 ... The last U.S. ladies medal at a World Championships came in 2006 ... It was the two-time and reigning U.S. champion's fourth consecutive trip to Worlds. ... She earned a season-best score for the free skate en route to a total of ... Her country mate, Anna Pogorilaya, won the bronze medal with 213.69 points.
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Annika Srenstam - Wikipedia  Annika Srenstam is a retired Swedish professional golfer, one of the most successful female .... 1996 saw Srenstam win her home LET tournament, the Trygg Hansa ... She qualified for the World Golf Hall of Fame when she won the 2000 .... in team Sweden, she won the Women's World Cup of Golf, opened her LPGA...
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Olympic speed skater Jansen falls after sister dies - Feb 14, 1988 ...  At his first Olympics, in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, he finished 16th in the 500 meters but came within a fraction ... In 1994, he won a second World Sprint Championship. ... In what became a memorable Olympic moment, Jansen took a victory lap around the ice carrying his young daughter Jane, named for his late sister.
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The Definitive Ranking Of Olympic Ladies Figure Skating Gold ...  Kristi Yamaguchi - 1992 Olympic Figure Skating Champion ... Kristi Yamaguchi was the first American woman to win the Olympics in figure skating since 1976. ... Tara Lipinski kissing the gold medal she earned at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, ..... On 4 August 2012 she became the second player after Steffi Graf to win a...
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Snow business - SFGate  Feb 14, 2002 ... Published 4:00 am, Thursday, February 14, 2002 ... Gold: Kati Wilhelm, Germany. Silver: Uschi Disl, Germany ... WOMEN'S 7.5K BIATHLON: Kara Salmela 49th, Andrea Nahrgang 50th, Rachel Steer 60th ... Cross-Country Skiing ... G  S  B Tot Germany 4 6 2 12 United States 3 5 2 10 Austria 1 1 7 9 Norway...
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Who Were The First U.S. Women To Win Olympic Gold In Each Sport?  Mar 24, 2016 ... When she earned slalom gold, it was the first Olympic gold medal won by any American in alpine skiing. ... With three women's events  the double National round, the double Columbia .... Snowboarding: Kelly Clark (2002) ... Her halfpipe gold kicked off a string of American dominance in the discipline; two...
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Chris Mason & Leslie Milne '79 Teamed Up to Help USA Field ...  Jul 29, 2012 ... The first time the U.S. won an Olympic medal in women's field hockey was in 1984. ... shootout against Australiathat led to the team's bronze-medal finish. ... Both Mason and Milne had been multi-sport athletes in college. ... but American goalie Gwen Cheeseman stopped five, giving the U.S. the win, 10-5.
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Kristi Yamaguchi - Wikipedia  Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi (born July 12, 1971) is an American former figure skater. In ladies' singles, Yamaguchi is the 1992 Olympic champion, a two-time ... In 2008, Yamaguchi became the celebrity champion in the sixth season of Dancing with the ... won her first U.S. title and gained a spot to the 1992 Winter Olympics in...
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ABC Sports - Wide World of Sports - ESPN.com  The men's and ladies' competition from the World Challenge of Champions in ... Tonya Harding becomes the first American woman to complete a triple Axel jump in ..... Three-time U.S. champion Todd Eldredge wins his first world championship, .... When Michael Weiss two-footed the landing of a quad Lutz in the free skate,...
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Irina Slutskaya - Wikipedia  Irina Eduardovna Slutskaya is a Russian figure skater. She is a two-time World champion (2002 ... Total, 14, 9, 5 ... After winning the 1995 World Junior title in November 1994 in Budapest, she ... 2001 World Championships, in the free skating, she became the first woman to land a 3S-3Lo-2T combination. ..... 10 April 2007.
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Dorothy Hamill's life of triumph, struggle - today > books - Biography ...  Oct 3, 2007 ... The Olympic gold-winning figure skater known as "America's ... Jump to text When Dorothy Hamill won Olympic gold in 1976 with her trademark spin, the Hamill. ... Video: Dorothy Hamill's life off the ice. Open in new window. TODAY ... We bought the best one we could afford, a third-hand cabin cruiser.
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Today bazi  Annika Srenstam (born 9 October 1970) is a Swedish professional golfer whose ... At the 1992 United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship she was the ... 1995 was her breakout year when she won her first LPGA Tour title at the U.S. ... Cheered through each hole, she shot five over par, tying for 96th out of the 111...
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figure skating | sport | Britannica.com  Apr 4, 2016 ... Sport in which ice skaters, singly or in pairs, perform freestyle ... age of 14, she was the youngest champion until Tara Lipinski won the world ... won the women's world title in Davos, Switzerland, and an Olympic gold ... Russians began to dominate men's figure skating in 1992 when Viktor Petrenko won the...
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Kim Zmeskal - OlyWa.Net  Nov 2, 2001 ... Kim Zmeskal had the world on her shoulders at the 1992 Olympics. ... in September of 1991 at the age of fifteen, she was the first American, ... and the Women's Sports Foundation honored her with the "1990 Up .... comeback just before the 1996 Olympics with the help of her former .... since April 22, 1997.
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January 16, 1982 - Beth Heiden grief has Docter wary | Chicago ...  Jan 16, 1982 ... She was 16 during the Lake Placid Olympics, asd wherever Beth went, ... She saw her heroine crushed by the that a bronze medal in ... as dominant among women skaters as her brother, Eric, was among the men. ... Sure, she d like to be a world champion-that s even harder than winning one Olympic race.
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Kristi Yamaguchi - Wikipedia  Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi (born July 12, 1971) is an American former figure skater. In ladies' singles, Yamaguchi is the 1992 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1991 and 1992), and the 1992 U.S. champion. As a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo, she is the 1988 World Junior champion ... In 1992, Yamaguchi won her first U.S. title and gained a spot to the 1992...