US downhill gold medalist Bill Johnson…RIP

[Tejano Jawg]

This is sad. I remember this well. I was always a big Olympics watcher...especially the Winter Olympics.

Johnson was a great story...a California dude who became a star in Sarajevo. Then a tragic end.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/22/bill-johnson-first-us-skier-to-win-olympic-downhill-gold-dead-at-55.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/22/463982622/skier-olympic-gold-medalist-bill-johnson-dies-at-55

[Pulled(PP)pork]

didn't he have that bad brain injury from a crash?


PP

[hoglady]

Sad news - I can remember watching when he won that Gold Medal.
Great moment in US Olympic history.
I'm an Olympics watcher, too. Always look forward to them.

PP - yes he had a crash in 2001 resulting in a traumatic brain injury.

Kudos to the judge who gave him a second chance as a teenager and sent him to ski school instead of jail. Bet he was proud when Johnson won that gold medal. 

[DeltaBoy]

Rest in Peace !