ABOUT ANDREA MEAD-LAWRENCE
Champion ski racer became the first American to win two gold medals in Alpine skiing after winning two in Oslo in 1952.
At 15 years of age, she competed in her first Olympics, taking place in Switzerland, making daring 60 mile-per-hour turns on the courses.
She made the cover of Time Magazine in 1952, as the hoped-for winner in the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo - and indeed she won, taking the gold.
She married David Lawrence, a former slalom ski champion.
Picabo Street was another women's ski champion - she won the gold in the 1998 Winter Olympics.
