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Originally posted by stillwater15
just a quick addition to black history facts...
2.19.02
earlier today, vonetta flowers became the first african-american (male or female) to win a gold medal in the winter olympics. the event was 2-person bobsled.
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Thanks Stillwater! 
excerpted from 2/20/02's Columbus Dispatch:
The United States went 46 years without winning a bobsled medal, until Americans Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers did so last night in the first-ever women's competition. Americans haven't won a cross- country skiing medal since 1976. The last ski-jumping medal was 78 years ago. An American has never medaled in the biathlon or Nordic combined.
http://www.dispatch.com/sports-story...2/1099872.html
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