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Author	Official Vancouver 2010 Olympics
Title	LEGENDARY OLYMPIC ATHLETES - Vancouver 2010 Olympics
Created	Wednesday, Apr. 01, 2009
Link	http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/-/32678/q0c15c/index.html
Content	"Search Men's and Women's FAQ, pH Physiology, or just try out Body'Fit pH Fitness™ (short form... pHx™) to find out how it gets More Out of Exercise and goes beyond your expectations with regular performance before and after your workout or as a stand alone routine on days you can't get to the gym." Three months before the Albertville Olympic Winter Games in 1992, Kjetil André Aamodt was hospitalized with mononucleosis and lost 11 kilograms as a result Hyun-Soo Ahn began skating when he was in primary school. Although he skated for pleasure, his aim was still to improve all the time. Tenley Albright was stricken with nonparalytic polio at the age of 11. Six years later, she made her first Olympic appearance in Oslo, Norway in 1952, winning the silver medal in figure skating behind Jeannette Altwegg of Great Britain. Jeannette Altwegg was an accomplished tennis player who made it to the junior finals at Wimbledon in 1947. Ski jumper Simon Ammann was not expected to win a medal during the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Hjalmar Andersen of Norway was the first man to win three speed skating gold medals at one Olympic Winter Games. At the age of five, Shizuka Arakawa took part in skating school. By the time she was eight, she was already able to perform a triple salchow. Thirty-year-old Berlin figure skater Ernst Baier and his 15-year-old protégée, Maxi Herber, were early models of "shadow skating" in which both skaters perform the exact same moves without touching. Ivar Ballangrud - One of the greatest speed skaters of the early Olympic Winter Games, Ivar Ballangrud competed in three Games, earning seven medals. Friends since the age of six, Stefan Krausse and Jan Behrendt grew up in Ilmenau, East Germany, the same hometown as Calgary 1988 men’s single luge gold medalist Jens Mueller. Trude Beiser was not quite 21 years old when she raced in the alpine skiing events at the St. Moritz 1948 Olympic Games. Only 1.55 metres tall and weighing 47 kg, Stefania Belmondo was an unlikely heroine in the rugged sport of cross-country skiing. When Verena Bentele won her first gold medal in women’s 7.5-kilometre free technique biathlon at the Nagano 1998 Paralympic Winter Games, she had no idea she would make biathlon history. Madeleine Berthod first competed in alpine skiing at the Oslo Olympic Games in 1952 and placed sixth in both the downhill and the slalom. A veteran on the US Paralympic team, Sarah Billmeier won her first world championship in alpine skiing at age 14. Prior to 2002, no biathlete had earned more than two gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games. Going into the free skating portion of the men's figure skating competition in Calgary in 1988, American Brian Boitano and Canadian Brian Orser were essentially tied for first place. A 25-year-old marketing student from St. Robert, Quebec, Gaétan Boucher had already won a speed skating silver medal in the 1,000-metre event in Lake Placid in1980 when he entered three events at the Sarajevo 1984 Olympic Winter Games. An accomplished athlete, Colette Bourgonje of Canada is one of the few athletes ever to win multiple medals in both Paralympic Summer and Winter Games. Just three years after his first mono-ski class, Martin Braxenthaler joined the German national para-alpine ski team. Pavel Bure first came to international attention when he was chosen as the top forward at the Ice Hockey World Junior Championships in 1989. At the Innsbruck 1988 Paralympic Winter Games, Hans Burn won his first medals: a bronze in the men’s giant slalom LW4 and a silver in the men’s downhill LW4 events. Two days before the free skating portion of the 1948 Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz, 18-year-old Richard "Dick" Button successfully completed a double Axel for the first time. When women's aerials was added to the Olympic program in Lillehammer in 1994, it was assumed that Lina Cheryazova would be the first champion; she was the defending world champion and the only female aerialist to consistently perform successful triple flips. Chun Lee-Kyung was only 18 years old when she won two of the three short track speed skating events at the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Games: the 3,000-metre relay and the 1,000-metre event. Deborah Compagnoni's alpine skiing career was plagued by frequent injuries and major illnesses. When British figure skater John Curry began competing, some judges did not approve of his style as he emphasized grace and artistic expression over athleticism. An avid skier, Muffy Davis grew up around the ski hills on Baldy Mountain in Idaho. Following graduating from university in 1995, Davis returned to the slopes to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a champion ski racer. Chris Daw always aspired to win a Paralympic medal. A versatile athlete, he competed in the 1984 and 1988 Paralympic Summer Games in wheelchair racing, and in the 2000 Paralympic Summer Games in wheelchair rugby. The Sarajevo 1984 Winter Games marked the first time that the Olympic ice dance competition was won by a non-Russian couple. When Chris Devlin-Young first appeared on the Paralympic alpine skiing World Cup circuit in the late 1980s, he was participating in the LW 1/3 class, standing with two outriggers. Manuela Di Centa had competed in 23 Olympic and world championship cross-country skiing races without winning a gold medal. With nine medals to her credit, Ursula “Uschi” Disl has won more medals than any other athlete in the history of Olympic biathlon. At the age of four, Michaela Dorfmeister was already spending hours hurtling down the slopes near her home in the small resort of Neusiedl in western Austria. Prior to wheelchair curling’s Paralympic debut, Frank Duffy had made a name for himself on the World Cup circuit, winning the 2004 and 2005 World Wheelchair Curling Championships as the skip for the Scottish Team. Cross-country skier Björn Dæhlie holds several all-time Olympic Winter Games records Eddie Eagan holds a special place in Olympic history: he is the only person to win Olympic gold medals in both summer and winter sports. The future looked rosy for 21-year-old Austrian alpine skier Stephan Eberharter when he won two gold medals at the 1991 World Championships. In 1976, Andrea Ehrig (also known as Andrea Mitscherlich and Andrea Schöne), earned a silver medal in the 3,000 metre speed skating event only 2½ months after her fifteenth birthday to become the youngest female athlete ever to win a silver medal in an individual event at an Olympic Winter Games. At the Grenoble 1968 Olympic Winter Games, Ole Ellefsæter, a forestry technician and pop singer, earned a gold medal as the final skier on Norway's 4x10-kilometre men’s cross-country skiing relay team. Stein Eriksen of Norway, whose father Marius Eriksen won a bronze medal in artistic gymnastics at the Stockholm 1912 Olympic Summer Games, was the first skier from outside the Alps to win an Olympic men's alpine skiing gold medal. Enrico Fabris started speed skating at the age of six in his local club in Roana, Italy. After 16 years of practising, he, like many other Italian champions, joined the Italian police sports group: the “Fiamme Oro.” Billy Fiske was only 16 years old when he led the American Bobsleigh Team to victory in the five-man bobsled event at the 1928 Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz. Peggy Fleming’s family happily sacrificed to allow her to pursue her love for figure skating. Her mother designed and sewed all of her costumes and her father relocated the family twice to find better training for his daughter. In Olympic history, the Host Country has always won at least one medal A talented skier, Gretchen Fraser acted as a skiing double for Sonja Henie in the films Thin Ice and Sun Valley Serenade. At 22 years of age, Kazuyoshi Funaki was the youngest member of the Japanese ski jumping team at the Nagano 1998 Olympic Winter Games Gillis Grafström was one of figure skating's greatest innovators. Among his inventions were the spiral, the change sit spin and the flying sit spin. Prior to Canadian Nancy Greene winning the 1967 inaugural World Cup series in alpine skiing, her previous best Olympic Winter Games finish had been a seventh place in downhill at the Innsbruck 1964 Games.

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