Ski jacket worn by a member of the U.S. Women's 2014 Sochi Olympic Alpine Ski Team
date: label: date made
content: 2014
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Blue hooded, down filled, ski jacket with white accents on the chest and right sleeve. There are red zippers at the sleeves, pockets and down the front. A red black widow spider is embroidered on the left breast. SOCHI 2014 is embroidered in white on the left sleeve and USA is embroidered in red on the back of the jacket. This jacket is the type used by the U.S. Women's Olympic Alpine Ski team at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. A record-matching 17 Team USA skiers and snowboarders left the Sochi Olympic Winter Games with medals, including a record eight gold.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 2014 Winter Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in Sochi, Russia with 88 countries and 2,873 athletes participating. These Games were the first Winter Olympics to be hosted by Russia with twelve new competitions added including mixed team luge, halfpipe skiing and ski and snowboard slopestyle. The Americans swept the podium in the debut of men’s slopestyle freestyle skiing. At 18, American Mikaela Shiffrin became the youngest winner in Olympic slalom, while Bode Miller became the oldest Alpine medalist winning the bronze in the supergiant slalom. Russia won the medal count at 30 with the United States running a close second with 28.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: web subject
content: Winter Olympics
label: web subject
content: Alpine Skiing
label: web subject
content: Women
label: related event
content: Olympic Winter Games: Sochi, 2014
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0149.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0149
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0149.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacket, ski
label: Object Name
content: ski jacket
label: Object Name
content: ski jacket, winter olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: down (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 in x 19 in; 88.9 cm x 48.26 cm