Fifty years after Barbara Ann Cochran won gold at the Sapporo games, her son seeks his first medal. Full story by AndrewDampf:
She hasn’t, however, forgotten what happened on Feb. 11, 1972.
For Cochran-Siegle, just being at the Beijing Games is an achievement after he was the victim of a horrifying crash on the feared Streif course in Kitzbühel, Austria, a year ago. A fracture of the seventh cervical vertebra of his spine meant that he didn’t get back on skis until May and didn’t resume full training until August. Then he made the risky decision to switch ski brands.
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