Team USA skiier Ryan Cochran-Siegle wins Olympic silver, 50 years after his mom won gold

As Ryan Cochran-Siegle set off at round midday Tuesday for a super-G run that might earn a silver on the Beijing Video games – the primary Olympic Alpine medal for a U.S. man since 2014 – it was round 11 p.m. Monday evening again residence in Starksboro, Vermont (pop. 1,756). So his mom, Barbara Ann Cochran, grabbed a laptop computer and settled into mattress in her pajamas to maintain tabs on how the boy she placed on skis at age 2 would fare.

Mother, you see, got here from the  “Snowboarding Cochrans” household of Olympians, and was the slalom champion on the 1972 Sapporo Video games. She is aware of all about what it takes to succeed on this stage, all about what goes via a racer’s thoughts firstly, center and finish of a high-velocity trek down the glassy facet of a mountain with historical past within the offing.