4. This Champaign woman was a darling of the Winter Olympics at Lillehammer in 1994. She won two gold medals in speed skating, and landed herself on the cover of Sports Illustrated as the Sportswoman of the Year. Who is she?
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Answer:
Bonnie Blair
Bonnie Blair was actually born in New York state, but her family moved to Champaign when she was very little. She attended at Centennial High School in Champaign, where she was a cheerleader and member of the student council. She also took some classes at the local community college, Parkland. Blair won five total gold medals in her Olympic career: one at Calgary in 1988, two at Albertville in 1992, and the final two at Lillehammer. I can recall how the whole community was thrilled with her performance at Lillehammer.
She now has a street named after her in Champaign, Bonnie Blair Drive.
Blair is hardly the only speed skating Olympian from Champaign. One of her teammates in Lillehammer, Chantal Bailey, was also from Champaign, as was Katherine Reutter, who won a silver medal in speed skating in 2010 at Vancouver. Jonathan Kuck, an Urbana native, also won a silver medal in speed skating on the men's side in 2010.
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