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   This week is my Featured Connections to Winter Olympians.   
      
   I am:   
      
   23 degrees from Dick Button   
   Dick Button is an American figure skater and skating analyst. He is a two-time   
   Olympic    
   champion (1948, 1952) and five-time World champion (1948ÿ1952). He is the only   
   non-   
   European man to have become European champion and is credited as having been   
   the    
   first skater to successfully land the double axel jump in competition (1948),   
   as well as    
   the first triple jump of any kind ÿ a triple loop (1952). He invented the   
   flying camel spin,    
   which was originally known as the "Button camel".   
      
   24 degrees from Peggy Fleming   
   Peggy Fleming is a World Champion American figure skater and Olympic gold   
   medalist,    
   as well as sports commentator.   
      
   30 degrees from Gillis Grafstrÿm   
   Gillis was an Olympic champion in figure skating, winning three gold and one   
   silver    
   medal. He is the only male figure skater to date to win 3 gold medals in the   
   Olympics.   
      
   22 degrees from Scott Hamilton   
   Scott Hamilton is a World Champion American figure skater and Olympic gold   
   medalist    
   (1984). He is known for his backflip on the ice, a move that is technically   
   illegal    
   according to competition rules, but always a crowd-pleaser for non-competitive    
   performances   
      
   33 degrees from Sixten Jernberg   
   Sixten Jernberg was a Swedish Cross-Country Skier, winner of four Olympic gold   
   medals    
   and four gold medals in the World Championships.   
      
   25 degrees from Jean-Claude Killy   
   Jean-Claude Killy is a French alpine ski champion, racing and businessman. He   
   became a    
   triple Olympic champion in 1968.   
      
   30 degrees from Sven Kramer   
   He is a long track speed skater representing the Netherlands at distances from   
   500 to    
   10000m, in addition to the team pursuit. He competed at the Olympic Games from   
   2006    
   to 2022, where he won 4 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals. At the World   
   Single    
   Distance Championships, he has won 21 gold medals.   
      
   20 degrees from Sonja Onstad   
   Sonja Henie was a figure skater and an actress   
      
   26 degrees from Frank Rankin   
   Frank coached the 1924 Olympic Canadian hockey team to a gold medal. He was a   
   1961    
   inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame.   
      
   30 degrees from Georg Thoma   
   At the Opening Ceremony of the 1964 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Georg   
   was    
   the flagbearer of the German team. There he won the Bronze medal in the Nordic    
   Combined competition. In 1966, Georg concluded his career after winning the   
   World    
   Championship   
      
   26 degrees from Lindsey Vonn   
   Lindsey Vonn is an American World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold   
   medalist    
   (2010). She has won four World Cup overall championships. In 2016 she won her   
   20th    
   World Cup crystal globe title, an all-time record among men or women. Vonn is    
   considered one of the most successful American ski racers in history.   
      
   All of the above information is credited to http://wikitree.com  My resource   
   for    
   everything Genealogy related.   
      
   Mike Dippel   
       
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