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- At the 1994 Winter
- Olympics, Bonnie Blair
- skated her way into
- history. She won two gold
- medals in speed skating
- to go along with the three gold medals she
- had won at earlier Olympics. Bonnie became
- the first U.S. woman ever to win five Olympic
- gold medals.
-
- BonnieΓÇÖs success story began when she
- was 2. Bonnie wore ice skates and hobbled
- around the rink near her home in Illinois.
- When any of her five older sisters and
- brothers tried to hold on to her, sheΓÇÖd take
- off. Bonnie wanted to skate on her own.
-
- By the time she was 14, Bonnie was
- already racing in long-track events. (In
-