The skier Andrea Mead-Lawrence died at the age of 76. Here is all you want to know and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Champion ski racer became the first American to win two gold medals in Alpine skiing after winning two in Oslo in 1952.
At 15 years of age, she competed in her first Olympics, taking place in Switzerland, making daring 60 mile-per-hour turns on the courses.
She made the cover of Time Magazine in 1952, as the hoped-for winner in the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo – and indeed she won, taking the gold.
How did Andrea Mead-Lawrence die?
The cause was cancer that had spread throughout her body, her daughter Quentin said.