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Mining Journal, Apr. 27, 2006

Hilary Lindh, 1992 Olympic downhill silver medalist and 1997 world downhill champion. Lindh said she believes "skiing is not just something you do, it is a way of life."

An Alaska native, she moved to Utah to train at age 14. The next year she was named to the U.S. Development Team. In 1986, at 16, she won the U.S. downhill title at Copper Mountain, Colo., and then a week later won the downhill at the World Junior Championships in Bad Gastein, Austria - a first for an American.

Lindh made the 1988 Olympic team, but her name would not headline in the ski world again until 1992 when she won a silver medal at the Albertville Olympics in France.

She retired on March 13, 1997, after 13 years on the U.S. Ski Team, three Olympic Games and one Olympic silver, five U.S. National titles, three World Cup downhill titles and a World Championship downhill gold.

Erich Sailer, the "Yoda of ski racing" who has influenced thousands of ski racers, including a host of Olympians, from his home hill, Buck Hill, Minn.

When it comes to ski racing no coach can claim a record like Sailer. For 50 years, this feisty Austrian has stood next to slalom courses tirelessly drilling alpine racers into world class competitors. His passion for the sport and his gift for teaching racers to go faster have touched about 25,000 skiers, including five of the women who represented the U.S. team in Torino: Lindsey Kildow, Kristina Koznick, Julia Mancuso, Sarah Schleper and Resi Stiegler.

His quest to build better ski racers has been a year round job since 1956, when as a newcomer to the states he pioneered summer ski racing on this continent with a camp at Timberline on Oregon's Mount Hood.

By 1967, he launched a camp on the Bear Tooth Pass outside Red Lodge, Mont., that soon became the biggest ski racing camp in the country attracting 700 skiers in a 40-day season.

In 1969, he came to Buck Hill in Burnsville. The 45-member ski team had never won a race but within a year, four racers were headed to the Junior Nationals. True to his mission, 15 racers from Buck Hill have made that team and four have competed at the Olympics.

In 1998, he was the first to be honored as USSA's Development Coach of the Year, Domestic Coach of the Year, and the United States Olympic Committee named him Ski Coach of the Year. ln 2004, he was presented with USSA's Tom Reynolds Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Mining Journal, Apr. 27, 2006

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