Going for the Gold: Shannon Bahrke

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Christie Succop - July 03, 2009 In Vancouver, Bahrke is looking to one-up her 2002 Olympic silver medal. She hopes to return from the Winter Games with a gold medal around her neck.    Read More | More News

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Lindsey Vonn US Ski and Snowboard

She competed in the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Winter Games as Lindsey Kildow before marrying skier Thomas Vonn, who is also her coach. As a child, she began skiing at 3 years old, began racing at 7 and competing internationally at 9. More

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Hannah Kearney

US Ski and Snowboard

Kearney started skiing at age 2, coming up through the Ford Sayre program and Nick Preston's Black and Blue Trail Smashers Team at Waterville Valley, N.H.

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Shaun White

US Ski and Snowboard

White first started snowboarding when he was six years old after watching his older brother, Jesse White, trying it. Shaun White started entering amateur competitions a year later...

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Ryan St. Onge

US Ski and Snowboard

The son of a freestyle official, St. Onge began skiing at 2 and joined the Winter Park freestyle program in the mid-1990s after his family moved from Connecticut to Colorado.

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Bill Demong

US Ski and Snowboard

Demong's father, an environmental biologist, had him on cross country skis at age 3, racing at 5 and jumping at 10. After seven years in Larry Stone's Lake Placid program, Demong made the 1998 U.S. Olympic Team at age 17.