Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn also experienced a sweet victory when she won the gold medal in the womens downhill ski race.
VOA: special.2010.02.26
Sixty years before Dartmouth undergrads schussed Mount Moosilauke in what is popularly regarded as the first downhillski competition in the U.S., and 40 years before the first downhillrace in Europe, miners--bored and snowbound in California's High Sierra--had already raced.