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- Bill Johnson, the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing, died Friday at the age of 55 in Gresham, Oregon. According to the Associated Press, via ESPN.com, the Los Angeles native succumbed to an illness brought on by a series of strokes in recent years.
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Jan 22, 2016 · Bill Johnson, the first American skier to win an Olympic downhill title, has died after a long illness, the U.S. ski team said Friday. He was 55.
Jan 25, 2016 · American ski legend Bill Johnson, who died Thursday at the age of 55, was one of them. “He was such a cocky bastard, it was awesome,” said U.S. downhill racer Marco Sullivan, who overlapped with Johnson on the U.S. Ski Team in 2001.
Jan 22, 2016 · Olympic downhill gold medalist Bill Johnson, whose storybook 1984 season ushered in a new era for American ski racing, died Thursday at an assisted living facility outside Portland, the...
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William Dean Johnson (March 30, 1960 – January 21, 2016) was an American World Cup alpine ski racer. By winning the downhill at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia, Johnson became the first American male to win an Olympic gold medal in alpine skiing and the first racer not from an Alpine country to win an Olympic downhill race.
Jan 22, 2016 · Johnson died after a long illness, the U.S. ski team said Friday from Kitzbuehel, Austria. He was 55. He died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Gresham, Oregon, where he has been staying since a major stroke a few years ago steadily took away the use of most of his body.
Jan 22, 2016 · Bill Johnson, the 1984 Olympic downhill champion who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2001 crash, died Thursday, the U.S. Ski Team confirmed though Johnson’s mother. “He suffered the worst kind of pain for the past three weeks,” said his mother, DB Johnson-Cooper, according to the Oregonian.
Jan 22, 2016 · Jan. 22, 2016. Bill Johnson, a swaggering skier who in 1984 became the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing, but whose life took a sharp, precipitous turn soon...
