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| The Sports Illustrated Olympic Daily is published in Salt Lake City and available in event venues and on newsstands for 16 straight days during the 2002 Winter Games. Here are some sights and scenes from today’s edition. |
Andrea Mead-Lawrence
ALPINE SKIING
Olympic Highlights: Gold medalist, slalom and giant slalom, 1952
The two golds she won as a 19-year-old in Oslo remain the highest achievement by a U.S. woman skier at an Olympic Games, but Lawrence has continued to make her mark even after hanging up her racing bib. "I came out of my skiing years with a very deeply held belief system," says Lawrence, "and a great passion and commitment to the land." Born into a renowned Vermont skiing family (her mother was the captain of the women's Eastern ski team; her father built the Pico Peak ski resort), Lawrence settled in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., in the late 1950s to raise her five children. In 1982 she was elected to the Mono County Board of Supervisors, and during her 16 years on the board she battled unchecked development in the mountainous region and testified before Congress to help environmental groups achieve several landmark successes, including passage of the Bodie Protection Act of 1993, which saved the California mining town of Bodie from development. Since her retirement in 1999 Lawrence, who describes herself as "indigenous to mountains," has worked on land-use issues with the Sierra Nevada Regional Initiative, a nonprofit organization. "You don't need to say no to development in mountain areas," says a still passionate Lawrence, now 69, "but you do need to say how [development should proceed], and we're not doing a good job of saying how."
—Trisha Blackmar
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