Complex sentence: William Dean ("Bill") Johnson (born March 30,1960 in Portland, Oregon) is a former ski racer, the first American man to ever win an Olympic gold medal in alpine skiing, winning the downhill at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Split into simpler sentences: William Dean ("Bill") Johnson (born March 30,1960 in Portland, Oregon) is a former ski racer. He was the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in alpine skiing, winning the downhill at the 1984 Winter Olympics.