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Its been 50 years since the first gold medal in skiing and snowboarding was won by an American. Since Gretchen Fraser’s historic slalom gold at St. Moritz in 1948, 31 athletes from the U.S. have brought home 35 gold medals.

In the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Maddie Bowman and Jamie Anderson from South Lake Tahoe each won gold, Bowman in women’s halfpipe skiing and Anderson in women’s slopestyle snowboarding.

Torino, Italy's 2006 Olympics saw South Lake Tahoe Olympian Hannah Teter win gold

Truckee resident Daron Rahvles will stop by South Lake Tahoe's Bank of the West on Friday to celebrate the beginning of the second stop on the Rahvles Banzai Tour at Kirkwood.

Rahvles will be at the bank, located at 2161 Lake Tahoe Blvd, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for a meet and greet,

The Rahlves' Banzai Tour is racing in it's purest form according to Rahvles' website. Big mountain freeride meets ski / boarder-cross action! The tour stops at Kirkwood on March 7 and 8, which is the second stop after February's Alpine Meadows. The final stop will March 14-15 at Sugar Bowl.

Two American men won medals in Sunday morning's Super G race in Sochi: Andrew Weibrecht from Saranc Lake, NY wins the Silver while there was a tie for the Bronze between Bode Miller from Easton, NH and Jan Hudec from Canada. With a time of 1:18:14, Kietil Jansrud from Norway won the Gold.

25 year old Travis Ganong from Truckee came in 23rd. Earlier in the week Ganong finished 5th in the Men's Downhill.

Super combined bronze medalist Julia Mancuso of Lake Tahoe led the U.S. Ski Team with eighth in Thursday's Olympic downhill as Dominique Gisin of Switzerland and Tina Maze of Slovenia made history with a tie for gold. An Olympic medal tie has happened four times since 1948 in alpine skiing, but before today, had never happened for a gold medal.

CORTINA d'AMPEZZO, Italy – Julia Mancuso from Squaw Valley, CA continued to gain momentum toward Sochi with seventh Thursday in an Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G in Cortina for her best race of the season. Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, CA) added to the U.S. momentum with ninth, her best super G finish since 2007. Austria’s Elisabeth Goergl won the race, which was a replacement for the canceled super G race last weekend due to a powerful winter storm that sidelined the weekend’s speed events.

Barton’s Tahoe Center for Orthopedics has partnered with the world’s top winter snow sports athletes for 2013 as part of its “Heal Like a Champion” advertising campaign, showcasing United States Ski, Snowboard and Free Skiing (USSA) champions, TCO patients and Lake Tahoe locals, Daron Rahlves, Marco Sullivan, Sho Kashima and Elena Hight.

Designed with the athlete in mind, the campaign highlights world class athletes who have chosen the TCO orthopedic care team to get them back into competition safely and quickly.

The Rahlves’ Banzai Tour hosted this winter at several Lake Tahoe resorts has a new sponsor. Bank of the West has signed on as the presenting sponsor of the downhill ski and snowboard event created by Daron Rahlves, considered among the most decorated American downhill and Super G skier in U.S. history. The tour spans four weekends from Feb. 2 – March 10 at four of Lake Tahoe resorts.

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland - Lindsey Vonn skied a tactically perfect weather-shortened super G to capture her 57th Audi FIS Alpine World Cup victory in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Saturday, while J...

NNORTHSTAR, Calif. - Tahoe League athletes headed to Northstar where they participated in their first and only super G race of the season last Saturday. With an average of seventy skiers per age gr...