Olympics

Standard-Examiner readers were invited to share their favorite 2002 Winter Olympic memories:

SALT LAKE CITY — The more the merrier.

Organizers exploring the possibility of bringing the Olympics back to Salt Lake City say that’s the kind of warm welcome they’ve received from officials pushing competing bids to hold the 2022 Winter Games at Lake Tahoe or Denver.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Former Olympians gathered at Rice-Eccles Stadium Wednesday to relight the Olympic cauldron at the University of Utah to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 Winter Games.

The evening ceremony just outside the university stadium was open to the public. Ten years ago to the date, the original cauldron was lighted.

Gov. Gary Herbert and Fraser Bullock, who was the chief operating officer of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee delivered remarks.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Mac Bohonnon squints in the bright sunlight, the rugged high peaks of the Adirondack Mountains looming in the distance like so many sentinels. He checks his bindings, flips down his glasses, pushes off, and down a steep u-shaped ramp he plummets.

Seconds later, he's hurtling 60 feet skyward, his body twisting and turning in flight before his skis slam the surface of a 17-foot-deep pool of water with a huge thud, creating a giant splash that sends waves caroming off and over the sides.

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany -- A career milestone and a rare family reunion. All of which left Lindsey Vonn in tears, and it made for a perfect day.

Vonn captured her 50th World Cup victory Saturday, winning the downhill on the demanding Kandahar course with temperatures plunging to minus 13.

"It's crazy. I am at a loss for words. I already cried with one of the TV crews and that is enough crying for the day," Vonn said. "Fifty World Cup wins is a huge mark for me in my career and more than I even thought possible. I just wanted the 50th win."

PARK CITY — Hannah Kearney made it look so easy, winning a dozen consecutive World Cup moguls titles over the past year.

In Thursday’s World Cup event at Deer Valley Resort, she got pushed by teammate Heather McPhie and still made it 13 in a row.