Team USA will have 232 athletes competing at the Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortino this year. Only one of them, however, is a bonafide Hoosier.
Nick Goepper is the second Indiana native, and first in a winter sport, to qualify for four Olympic Games. The 31-year-old Lawrenceburg-native’s appearance at the Milano Cortina Games makes him a contender for a fourth medal.
Here’s what to know about Goepper, as well as how and when you can watch him compete at this year’s games.
Who is Nick Goepper, the freestyle skier from Indiana?
- Name: Nicholas Goepper
- Age: 31
- Height: 6’0″
- Hometown: Lawrenceburg, Indiana
- Education: Windells Academy (now Wy’East Mountain Academy)
- Sport: Freestyle Skiing
- Event: Halfpipe
- Career Olympic Medals: 0 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze
Goepper retired shortly after becoming the first Hoosier in more than 100 years to medal in three Olympics. He earned silver in slopestyle in 2022 at the Beijing games. After a year and a half though, he resumed competing, changing events from slopestyle to halfpipe…