As Gold - Winter Olympic Hopefuls template Good As Gold Winter Olympic Hopefuls by Tina Cole Trying to predict which local athletes will compete in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Snow Basin, Utah, is a difficult task. Each competitor who succeeds in winning a berth in the Olympics represents not only his country and community but also years of hard work, determination and super-human focus. The many talented competitors living in this famous destination ski resort face unknown challenges and individual variables along their path to the games.
Olympic hopefuls are nothing new to Sun Valley.
It is home to numerous winter Olympians. Most recently, Picabo Street in alpine skiing, Sondra Van Ert in alpine snowboarding and Laura Wilson in Nordic skiing, all participated in the Winter Olympics staged in Nagano, Japan in 1998. Picabo medaled, and the rest is history. Street and Van Ert hope to compete in the Salt Lake Olympics, along with some new upstarts. Getting to the Olympics is no easy feat.