1. Bill Demong is a five-time Olympian, having competed in Nagano, Salt Lake City, Torino, Vancouver and Sochi.
11 Facts About Bill Demong
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Bill Demong competed at the World Cup level starting in 1997.
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Bill Demong has three victories in World Cup B events in the United States in 2004 and 2005 as well.
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Bill Demong won a complete set of medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold, a silver, and a bronze.
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Bill Demong is the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in a nordic event.
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Also on that same day, Bill Demong found out he was named the flagbearer for the American team at the closing ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics on February 28.
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On July 11,2010, Bill Demong married Koczynski in Lake Placid, New York.
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Bill Demong learned to jump through the New York Ski Educational Foundation.
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Bill Demong attended the National Sports Academy during high school, and competed in the Nagano Olympics during his senior year.
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In 2009, Bill Demong began appearing in Alka-Seltzer Plus television commercials as part of the medication's sponsorship of the US Ski Team.
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Bill Demong's mother is a Korean-American retired chorus teacher from Saranac Lake High School.