By memory only (I was just a junior racer at the time), I can come up with a few on the alpine team:
Men - Tom Corcoran, Marvin Melville, Max Marolt, Gordie Eaton. Dave Gorsuch, Jim Barrier, ... ?
Women - Penny Pitou, Betsy Snite, Linda Meyers, Bev Anderson, Rene Cox, Joan Hannah ... ?
Balance is needed in all sports.
Edging - the amount of edge your snowboard has.
Torsional twist - the difference of edge angle between the tip and tail of a snowboard. Rotation - where your snowboard rotates from or the pivot point. Pressure - How much or how little pressure is being applied to the edge.
1) Phil Mahre - downhill, slalom, giant slalom - won silver in slalom, the only medal won by the U.S. ski team, men or women, at the 1980 Games.
2) Pete Patterson - downhill, slalom, giant slalom
3) Andy Mill - downhill
4) Karl Anderson - downhill
5) Steve Mahre - slalom, giant slalom
6) Cary Adgate - giant slalom
7) Bill Taylor - slalom
The first ever Olympic winner, according to tradition, was Coerobus in 776BC. In 1896, the first modern Olympic games, the winners received a silver medal.
The gold medal wasn't used until the 1904 summer olympics. There were 91 events, so 91 gold medalists - a list of the winners can be found in the related links.
The US Olympic skier Picabo Street pronounces her name "peekaboo".
Her sisters name is Laura and she has two other brothers that I don't know their names and the three younger siblings are triplets
Olympic cross-country skiing is many people racing to see who can get to the finish line faster by cross-country skiing, or skiing on flat land.
In the slalom, skiers navigate a course of marked turns.
what year did Diane Gordon Lenox compete for the slalom and downhill alpine skiing events with one armin cast
Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards, British ski-jumper at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary