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Article: Flowers do bloom in winter.(Sports)(Women's watch)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2006
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Byline: Patricia Babcock McGraw
Many Americans, if they watch the Winter Olympics at all, won't watch beyond figure skating and the Michelle Kwan saga.
There are other intriguing stories from Turin, Italy, where the opening ceremony took place Friday night.
A good one on the women's side involves the inspirational journey of Vonetta Flowers.
Flowers grabbed headlines at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games when she became the first person of African descent - from any country - to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics.
She did it in bobsled, a sport that, just two years before, she had known nothing about except for what she had ...