She has earned a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Games in the Giant Slalon, 2 silver medals in the 2012 Winter Games, 7 World Cup Championships and 4 podium finishes in the World Championships of Downhill Skiing.

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Double gold followed in the two and four-man teams in Turin four years later, with his fourth gold in the two-man in the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and a silver in the four-man.

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Word on the street is that as the Dumb Money began plowing into gold this winter, the Crazy Money came hard into silver.

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In the winter of 1974, Mr. Fry attended a presentation by Sheldon Silver, an engineer working on adhesives.

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The gold was Slovakia's first at a Winter Games, as Kuzmina went one better than 2006 snowboard cross silver winner Radoslav Zidek.

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The flamboyant U.S star has been in superb form at the Vancouver Winter Games and his victory completes a full set of medals, after he claimed silver in the super-G and bronze in the downhill.

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