Utah Athletic Foundation Brunskill/Getty Images Ross Powers (USA), the Americans made olympic history on February11 with the first medals sweep in the history of olympic snowboarding. http://www.utahathleticfoundation.com/2002games/olyrecap_snowboarding.html
Utah Athletic Foundation forced to settle for third. Their bronze was Italy's first figure skatingmedal in olympic history. In the mens' event, Alexei Yagudin http://www.utahathleticfoundation.com/2002games/olyrecap_figureskating.html
The Salt Lake Tribune Utah's Statewide Newspaper The task of forming the first US olympic luge team fell to the military, specificallyto Bob Cole, then an Army master sergeant and now an honorary member of http://www.sltrib.com/2002/jan/01082002/tuesday/tuesday.htm
BBC SPORT Winter Olympics 2002 Luge And Skeleton Luger The Winter Olympics' first black female luger, Dinah Browne, flies the flag for the US Virgin Islands in Salt Lake City. http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/luge_and_skeleton/newsid_180
