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- Ryan Cochran-Siegle won his second Olympic silver medal
- The American skier placed second in the super-G in Bormio, Italy on Wednesday, Feb. 11
- Cochran-Siegle's medal-winning run came on the 54th anniversary of his mother Barbara Cochran winning the gold in the slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Ryan Cochran-Siegle is now a two-time silver medalist, and he won his second Olympic medal on a special date!
The Team USA skier tamed what he called a “fickle lover” (aka the super-G) on Wednesday, Feb. 11. His victory came on the 54th anniversary of his mother Barbara Cochran’s gold medal slalom run at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
"I was selfish, and I wasn't sure if I wanted my mom to come here, just because it is such a big event," the 33-year-old athlete told reporters afterwards. "She was a little sick the last few days, too, so I got to see her from a balcony yesterday, but I haven't actually seen her in person. [That'll] be nice.”
He then added about his fiancée, Jessie Lucas: “And then obviously, Jessie, too. She's a huge part of my life. Sharing this moment with them is cool. I did not expect this, but obviously it's nice to bring home some hardware."
The Burlington, Vt. native’s run was redemption after a disappointment on Saturday, Feb. 7, when he finished 17th in the men’s downhill and suffered from what NBC analyst Ted Ligety claimed was food poisoning.
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“Coming into these Games, I was so focused on the downhill,” Cochran-Siegle said, explaining that it “felt like that was my opportunity. But super-G, she’s a fickle lover at times, knowing that [meant] anything could happen.”
The athlete added that he knew “the conditions weren’t probably going to be that favorable going through the race.”
Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen won the event, nabbing his third gold medal of the Games and becoming only the fourth Alpine skier ever to win three at a single Olympics. The last male Alpine skier to accomplish the feat was France's Jean-Claude Killy in 1968, according to NBC.
For Barbara Cochran, the moment had to have been like déjà vu.
In a 2022 interview with PEOPLE, the ski legend shared that she believed in her son after he won his first silver in Beijing.
"I knew he could do it, I absolutely had confidence that he could do it," she said. "But yet at the same time, I just think that I wasn't sure that it would happen. And when it did, it was unbelievable."
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