COLUMBIA — At the age of nine, Vonetta Flowers had a dream of one day being an Olympic champion. Flowers said her dream, like other female athletes, did not happen overnight and that, “you have to set goals in order to reach them.”
Olympian Vonetta Flowers speaks at Women's Intersport Network Luncheon
She was the first black person to win a gold medal at the winter Olympics
Thursday, January 31, 2008 | 10:44 p.m. CST;
updated 7:38 a.m. CDT, Friday, July 18, 2008
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