With One More Medal, Nick Goepper Will Make Olympic History

With One More Medal, Nick Goepper Will Make Olympic History

Believe it or not, American free skier Nick Goepper, a three-time Olympic medalist, thinks growing up in Indiana—a location that doesn’t exactly conjure up visions of powdery snow and ski chalets—worked to his advantage. Sure, the slope in Lawrenceburg, an Ohio River Valley city of some 5,000 residents, 20 miles west of downtown Cincinnati, had only a 400-ft. vertical drop. But the hill was so small that lights could keep the entire slope illumi…