Nikki Stone
Nicole 'Nikki' Stone (born February 4, 1971, Princeton, New Jersey, currently residing in Park City, Utah) is a former American Olympic skier.
Nikki Stone, who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, is best known for being the first American to win a gold medal as inverted aerial skier. Aerial Skiing is a sport where athletes ski into a 10-foot snow jump at approximately 40 miles per hour, flip and/or twist to a height of 50-feet, and land on a 45 degree hill.
Eighteen months before this second Olympic appearance, Nikki sustained a career-threatening spinal injury in which doctors believed she would never jump again.
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Famous quotes containing the word stone:
“I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)