When Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, halfpipe snowboarder Kelly Clark won a gold medal in her Olympic debut. On the other side of the country in West Dover, Vermont, an 8-year-old Devin Logan watched her hometown hero compete.
“I know we can watch [the Olympic Games] from afar,” Clark said. “But when it’s in your home country, it breaks down a little invisible barrier and really inspires the next generation like no other Olympics on foreign soil can.”
Twelve years later, Clark and Logan each won a medal at the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 — Clark in halfpipe snowboarding and Logan in slopestyle skiing. They have a chance to do the same this month.