- Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12 1947, better known as Mitt Romney), was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term ended January 4, 2007. Romney has started his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, having formally announced his candidacy on February 13, 2007. He made his announcement at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. - Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Douglas Gretzky, OC (born 26 January 1961 in Brantford, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently part-owner and head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes. Nicknamed "The Great One," "Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the NHL" calls Gretzky "the greatest player of all time." He is generally regarded as the best player of his era and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, … - Jacques Rogge
Count Jacques Rogge (born May 2, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon. He is the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Born in Ghent, Dr. Count Rogge competed in yachting in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and played on the Belgian national rugby union team. Rogge served as president of the Belgian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1992, and as president of the European Olympic Committees from 1989 to 2001. - Sarah Hughes
Sarah Elizabeth Hughes (born May 2, 1985 in Great Neck, New York) is an American figure skater. She is the 2002 Olympic gold medalist. - Bode Miller
Samuel Bode Miller (born October 12 1977), best known as Bode Miller, is an American alpine skier. In 2005, he became the first American in 22 years to win the overall alpine skiing World Cup title, since Phil Mahre and Tamara McKinney in 1983. Earlier during his championship season, with a victory on November 28, 2004, he became only the fifth man to win World Cup races in all five disciplines: slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, downhill, and combined. - Anton Sikharulidze
Anton Tarielyevich Sikharulidze was born October 25, 1976. He is a Russian pairs figure skater, currently professional and partnered with Yelena Berezhnaya. With Berezhnaya, he won a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. This gold was later shared with Canadian pair Jamie Salé and David Pelletier after much controversy regarding the judging of the long program of that competition. - Joe Sakic
Joseph Steve Sakic (born July 7, 1969 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey center who has played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. In his 18-year tenure, Sakic has won two Stanley Cups, various NHL trophies and has been voted into 13 NHL All-Star Games. He is regarded as one of the strongest team leaders to ever play in the league, … - Derek Parra
Derek Parra (born March 15, 1970) is a Mexican-American speed skater from San Bernardino, California who won two medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Parra was originally a world champion inline speed skater. Following the lead of KC Boutiette, he switched to ice skating in the late 1990s as it was the only way he would have a chance of going to the Olympics as a speed skater. Parra's most successful season was from 2001 to 2002. - Picabo Street
Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971, in Triumph, Idaho) is an American skier, now retired and living in Park City, Utah. She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, Idaho, where she learned to ski and race. She first joined the United States Ski Team in 1989, at the age of 17. She has written an autobiography entitled "Nothing to Hide" (ISBN 0-07-140693-X). She appeared on the TV show Nickelodeon GUTS in 1994. - Alexei Yagudin
Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin is a Russian figure skater. Yagudin was the 2002 Olympic champion as well as a four-time World Champion, a two-time World Professional Figure Skating Champion, a three-time European Champion, and three-time Grand Prix Final gold medalist. - Vonetta Flowers
Vonetta Flowers (born Vonetta Jeffery October 29, 1973 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American bobsledder and athlete. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team. After several failed attempts, Flowers turned to bobsledding, and found success as a brakewoman almost immediately. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she, along with driver Jill Bakken, … - Marie-Reine Le Gougne
Marie-Reine Le Gougne, often known simply as The French Judge, was a central figure in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal. Le Gougne took up figure skating as a child in France, but never competed at a high level. Instead, she decided to become a skating judge, and progressed rapidly up the ranks. By the time she was 25, she had an appointment to judge international figure skating competitions. - Kelly Clark
Kelly Clark (born July 26, 1983) is a snowboarder born in Newport, Rhode Island. She graduated from Mount Snow Academy in spring 2001. She won a gold medal for women's halfpipe at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Clark competed in the halfpipe again in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Her last run started off in spectacular fashion, however, she missed a landing later in the run and ended up placing fourth behind fellow Americans Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler, … - Yelena Berezhnaya
Yelena Berezhnaya is a Russian figure skater. She and skating partner Anton Sikharulidze were awarded an Olympic gold medal in pair skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, which the pair shared with another pair from Canada after a notable judging controversy. - Chris Klug
Chris Klug (born November 18, 1972) is a professional snowboarder. After receiving a liver transplant in 2000 to treat Primary sclerosing cholangitis, he went on to compete in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. This was the first and so far only time a transplantee had competed in the Olympics, either winter or summer. He also won a bronze medal, and lit the torch at the 2002 U.S. Transplant Games. He is an alumnus of Deerfield Academy. - Olga Danilova
Olga Danilova (born June 10, 1970) is a Russian cross country skier who competed from 1991 to 2002. Her statistics are listed as: * Height: 191 cm * Weight: 59 kg Danilova won a total of eleven medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, including four golds (4 x 5 km: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001), four silvers (5 km: 1999, 10 km: 2001, 15 km: 2001, 30 km: 1999), and three bronzes (5 km + 10 km combined pursuit: 1995, 5 km: 1997, 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit: 2001). - Simon Ammann
Simon Ammann (born June 25, 1981 in Grabs) is a Swiss ski jumper. He grew up in Unterwasser where his parents still live. He currently lives in Schindellegi, Switzerland. He made his debut as a 16-year-old unknown during the 1997-1998 Ski jumping World Cup season. Ammann qualified for the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games, where he finished 35th. Before the 2002 Winter Olympics, he crashed and suffered injuries. - Kim Dong-Sung
Kim Dong-Sung (born 9 February 1980) is a South Korean short track speed skater, who won two medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics. At the 2002 Winter Olympics he originally won the 1500 m, but the officials disqualified him for blocking Apolo Anton Ohno. - Todd Eldredge
Todd James Eldredge (born August 28, 1971 in Chatham, Massachusetts) is an American figure skater. He is a six-time national champion (1990, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002) and won a world title in 1996. After finishing sixth in his third Olympics, the 2002 Winter Olympics, Eldredge announced his retirement from competitive skating. He is currently touring and headlining with Stars on Ice. - Gwendal Peizerat
Gwendal Peizerat (born April 21 1972 in Bron, France) is a French figure skater and 2002 Olympic champion in ice dancing. Peizerat started skating at age four when he and his sister, then six, followed their parents to the skating club at the rink. He was introduced into ice dancing straight away, coached by Murielle Boucher-Zazoui, who to this day, remains his coach. His first partner was the French figure skater Marina Morel. - Yang Yang
Yang Yang (S) is a Chinese Olympic speed skater. Born in Changchun, China, Yang Yang competed as a short track speed skater for the Chinese national team at the 1994 Winter Olympics, the 1998 Winter Olympics, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. By coincidence, she had a contemporary on the Chinese short track team also named Yang Yang. They were originally referred to as Yang Yang (L) and Yang Yang (S), for "Large" and "Small"; unsurprisingly, … - Pavel Bure
Pavel Vladimirovich Bure is a former professional ice hockey player. He was a right winger and played in the National Hockey League (NHL), as well as for the Soviet Union and Russia internationally. He won a bronze medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and a silver medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. During his career in the NHL, he played for the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers and New York Rangers. - Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin (born July 31, 1966 in Killam, Alberta) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. Martin is one of the most successful curlers in the world, escpecially in the World Curling Tour, where his team has won almost $1 million in his career. Martin first came on the curling scene in 1985 when he won the Canadian Junior Championships. This qualified him for the 1986 World Junior championships, where he won the silver medal. - Casey Fitzrandolph
Casey J. FitzRandolph (born January 21 1975 in Verona, Wisconsin) is an American speedskater. In 1997, FitzRandolph won the bronze medal at the World Sprint Championships in Hamar. He won another bronze medal in 2001 at the World Single Distance Championships on the 500 m. His best year so far was 2002. He won silver at the World Sprint Championships in Hamar and went on to become Olympic Champion on the 500 m at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. - Joey Cheek
William Joseph Cheek (born June 22 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American speed skater and former inline speed skater. He specializes in the short and middle distances. Cheek's breakthrough was in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. During that tournament he won the bronze medal in the 1,000 meters and he missed the podium in the 1,500 meters by 0.08 seconds. - Alisa Camplin
Ms Camplin retired from competitive skiing in 2006, leaving with 19 World Cup podium medals (ten gold, five silver and four bronze) and the Sir Donald Bradman Award. Alisa has an information technology degree and is now in her 12th year with IBM Australia where she is Manager of the Multi Vendor Maintenance and Technical Services Delivery Business. - Jennifer Rodriguez
Jennifer Rodriguez (born June 8, 1976 in Miami, FL) is a Cuban-American speed skater. She started her career as an artistic roller skater, winning multiple national championships and placing second and third at world championships. Later she switched to inline speed skating and became world champion in 1993. In 1996 she made another career move by giving it a try on ice, in order to have a chance to make the Olympic Team. - Danny Kass
Daniel Kass (born on September 21, 1982 in Pompton Plains, New Jersey is a professional snowboarder from Vernon, NJ <sup></sup>. He is known for his stylish spins and flips in the half-pipe as well as his punk image. He was the first rider to successfully land back to back 1080s in competition, at the 2002 US Open, starting off what can best be described as a "firestorm" of halfpipe progression within the top tiers of the snowboard community. - Samppa Lajunen
Samppa Lajunen (born April 23 1979 in Turku, Finland) is a retired nordic combined athlete who competed during the late 1990's and early 2000's. A winner of five Winter Olympic Games medals, his career highlight came at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City when Lajunen took won all three gold medals in the nordic combined events. He also won silver medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano in both the 15 km individual and 4 x 5 km team events. - Rusty Smith
Rusty Smith (born August 27, 1979) is a short track speed skater from the United States who won bronze in the 500m at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and another bronze in the 5000m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. - Thomas Alsgaard
Thomas Alsgaard is a Norwegian former cross-country skier. He comes from Flateby in Enebakk. He won his first gold medal in an international championship in the 30 km race at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. He won gold medals in the Men's 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit and the 4 x 10 km at the 1998 Winter Olympics. In the 2002 Winter Olympics, Alsgaard was part of the gold medal winning men's 4 × 10 km cross country team. - Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov
Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov is a Russian associated with organized crime, including arms dealing, smuggling, and bribing figure skating judges in the 2002 Winter Olympics. - Yang Yang
Yang Yang (A) is an Olympic short track speed skater. She is currently a member of the Chinese national short track team. Most notably, her victory in the women's 500 m short track at the 2002 Winter Olympics made her China's first-ever Winter Olympics gold medalist. She added a second gold in the women's 1000 m short track at the same Games. - Catriona Le May Doan
Catriona Ann Le May Doan, O.C. (born December 23, 1970) is a Canadian speed skater and a double Olympic champion in the 500 m. The proper pronunciation of her first name is "Kah-TREE-nah". Born In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, of Scottish ancestry, Le May Doan won the Olympic 500 m title at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and she repeated this feat at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, giving rise to the title "the fastest woman on ice". - Bente Skari
Bente Skari nèe Martinsen is a former cross country skier from Nittedal, Norway. She won her first Olympic medals in 1998, and won her first gold medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics, coming from behind to beat the favourites Olga Danilova and Julija Tchepalova in the last kilometers of the 10 km classical event. She also won a bronze medal in 30 km classical as well as a silver medal in the relay. Additionally, she won five gold medals (5 km: 1999, … - Kati Wilhelm
Katarina "Kati" Wilhelm (born August 2, 1976) is a German professional biathlete. Like most German biathletes she is also a member of the German Armed Forces ("Bundeswehr") with the rank of sergeant ("Hauptfeldwebel"). She currently resides in Steinbach-Hallenberg, also in the Federal State of Thuringia. Kati Wilhelm was born in Schmalkalden, in the Federal State of Thuringia, Germany. - Kari Traa
Kari Traa (born January 28, 1974 in Voss, Norway) is a Norwegian freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 2002 Winter Olympics, finished second at the 2006 games, and finished third at the 1998 games. Traa is extremely popular in Norway, and has been on the cover of many magazines, and tabloid newspapers. Kari Traa missed the cut for the final round and finished 14th in Albertville - the first official Olympic mogul competition. - Shen Xue
Shen Xue (born November 13, 1978 in Harbin, China) is a pairs figure skater from China. Along with her partner Zhao Hongbo, they became the first World Champion pairs team from China, and also the first to win an Olympic medal. Shen and Zhao were the first Chinese pair to be competitive on the senior international level. They are the 2007 World Champions and 2007 Grand Prix Final Champions. - Maria Butyrskaya
Maria Viktorovna Butyrskaya (born June 28, 1972) is a Russian figure skater. In 1999, she became the oldest person to win the ladies' singles title at the World Figure Skating Championships, and also became the first Russian woman to win the World Championships. She also won bronze medals at the 1998 and 2000 World Championships. She placed fourth at the 1998 Winter Olympics and sixth at the 2002 Winter Olympics. - Emily Hughes
Emily Hughes (born January 26, 1989) is an American figure skater. She is the 2007 U.S. National silver medalist. She is the younger sister of Sarah Hughes, who won a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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