His mother, Barbara Ann Cochran, took the top prize in slalom in Sapporo in 1972.
“I hope this holds,” U.S. skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle said Tuesday after he finished four-hundredths of a second behind the leader at the Super-G at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.The silver medal for Cochran-Siegle, 29, of Vermont, came 50 years after his mother won gold in 1972.
Austria’s Matthias Mayer won gold, his second in a row in the event at back-to-back winter Games and his third Olympic gold overall. “I’m just so proud,” she said in a video interview with NBC during the race. “I knew he was capable. I didn’t know if it would happen, but I knew he was capable.”
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