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Top skiers and resort owners receive recognition
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Ted Ligety of Park City won the FIS NorAm Cup in 2005 and the slalom in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy, where he also won the combined title. In 2006 he won a World Cup giant slalom event and he won the slalom title at the U.S. Alpine National Championships. He had four top-15s in slalom during 2005 and was slalom silver medalist in the 2004 Junior Worlds, the same year he picked up two gold medals in the 2004 NorAm Championships.
Steve Cook of Salt Lake City lost his right leg in a farm accident. He became a world-class bike racer and a World Cup and Paralympic Games cross country skiing champion. He won golds in the 2006 Paralympic Games in the men's 5km and 10km standing/nordic and a bronze medal in the men's 20 km standing/nordic. In the 2005 World Championships, he won two gold medals and was the 2005 World Cup standup champion.
Those inducted into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame:
Moseley was also the World Cup combined and overall champion in 1996 before capturing five contests and the '98 moguls World Cup title. He retired in 2002 with 18 World Cup victories and also was a two-time U.S. champion.
Trace Worthington was also elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame, Class of 2006. He grew up in Minnesota and was one of the first athletes to move to Park City in aerial competition.
He skied in all three freestyle events ballet, aerials and moguls and earned medals 37 times, including 27 combined. He is still the only person to win two gold medals at the same Worlds event. In addition to his World Cup wins, Worthington had six World Cup titles and 11 U.S. championships.
Also elected was Julie Parisien who started skiing in Maine. At 19, she won the first of three World Cups. A year later, she started the '93 World Cup season as the No. 1-ranked slalom skier in the world. Parisien retired after the 1994 season, then returned to make the 1998 Olympic Team her third visit to the Winter Games and re-retired following the '99 season.
Honored by the University of Colorado:
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