Winter Olympics: New England Numbers
Two tales of Olympic gold medalists: Mike Eruzione, 1980 U.S. Hockey Team captain New Hampshire’s Bode Miller 1 Dorothy Hamill’s ranking in a 1993 national poll of favorite U.S. athletes, 17 years after the Connecticut-raised skater earned gold in Austria 350 feet: vertical drop of Cochran’s Ski Area in Richmond, VT 8 number of Olympic […]
By Ian Aldrich
Dec 29 2009
Bode Miller in December 2008.
Photo Credit : MItchell Gunn1 Dorothy Hamill’s ranking in a 1993 national poll of favorite U.S. athletes, 17 years after the Connecticut-raised skater earned gold in Austria
350 feet: vertical drop of Cochran’s Ski Area in Richmond, VT
8 number of Olympic skiers produced by the Cochran family since 1960
0 number of American reporters on hand to cover Vermonter Bill Koch’s silver-winning triumph in Nordic skiing at the 1976 Olympics
1:52.12 Silver-medal-winning time for Pembroke, MA, speedskater Eric Flaim in the 1500-meter race in 1988
39,320 dollars: tuition, room, and board at Burke Mountain Academy in E. Burke, VT, New England’s premier skiing school
$5 million estimated annual endorsement income for medal-less Bode Miller at the time of the 2006 Olympics
$750,000 total income earned by Massachusett’s Mike Eruzione, Miracle on Ice hockey hero, during the first 10 years after Team USA’s 1980 gold-medal run