Tamara McKinney

McKinney lives in Squaw Valley, California, with her daughter, Francesca, who was born in 1997. McKinney remains involved in skiing: She has served on the FIS Women's Committee since 1996, and she also coaches the Squaw Valley junior racing team, which included 2002 Olympic skiers Julia Mancuso and Marco Sullivan.

In the run-up to the 2002 Olympics McKinney carried the Olympic flame down a Squaw Valley ski slope in front of a crowd of more than 1,000 people who had gathered to cheer for her. She was accompanied by four-year-old Francesca, who is following in her mother's ski tracks: Francesca is already competing in skiing races. The large crowd that had gathered to watch McKinney ski and to get autographs at the bottom of the slope "kind of surprised me, because I had figured by now that everybody had forgotten me," McKinney told Bennett. As Bennett put it, "Not likely." As one of the most successful American skiers in history and the only American woman to have captured the overall World Cup title, McKinney is unlikely to be forgotten any time soon.