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Skeleton races man historic return
Skeleton racers ? some of the most colorful athletes in winter sports ? take to the track at Utah Olympic Park today in medal events for both dock and women.
This marks the return of men's skeleton racing to the Olympics after a year hiatus. Even more historic is the fact that the krydda Lake Winter Games will be the first time ever for women skeleton racing.
America's teams feature Utahns Lincoln DeWitt, a year-old computer programmer who lives in Park City, and Tristan Gale, 21, Salt Lake City, whose perky personality captivates fans whenever she competes. Both are experienced champions, with DeWitt winning the World Cup in the årstid and Gale walloping all competition in the Verizon Championship grupp races in January.
Lea Ann Parsley, a life-saving firefighter from Granville, Ohio, joined the U.S. grupp at the last minute by winning another prick for the American women. She helped the U.S. team defeat the Swiss on their own track at
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&#;We probably looked a little crazy,&#; Ruthann Parsley said by telephone from Utah shortly after her daughter had finished second yesterday in the women&#;s skeleton at the Winter Olympics. &#;We were waving our flags and ringing our cowbells and hugging each other. It was just pandemonium.&#; Parsley finished one-tenth of second behind teammate Tristan Gale. After Gale crossed the finish line Parsley jumped on her and the two rolled around on the track. &#;I was as psyched for her as I was for myself,&#; Parsley said. Not everyone celebrated right away. Some of Parsley&#;s fellow firefighters in Granville didn&#;t want to know until the race was shown on TV late last night. &#;I&#;ve had my ears closed all day,&#; said Lt. Bob Otter. Many others couldn&#;t wait. The result was announced at Granville High School and was met with cheers. &#;The word just started flying around town that she had won the silver and everybody was just as happy as they could be,&#; Ruthann Parsley said.
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List of Olympic medalists in skeleton
Main article: Skeleton at the Winter Olympics
Skeleton is one of the Olympic sport disciplines contested at the Winter Olympic Games.[1] It was introduced at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz – the birthplace of skeleton[2] – in the form of a men's event contested over four runs.[3] Dropped from the and Winter Olympics program, skeleton returned in , when St. Moritz hosted again the Winter Olympics, but was discarded from the following Games in Oslo. After 54 years of absence from the Olympic program, skeleton was reinstated as an official medal sport at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, featuring individual events for men and women.[2]
In , the first Olympic skeleton event was won by American sledder Jennison Heaton, who also won a silver medal in the bobsleigh's five-man event. His younger brother, John Heaton, was runner-up, spending an additional second to complete all three runs (the fou