Familiar Faces, Except in the United States

NPR | By Tom Goldman

Published February 11, 2006 at 6:19 PM EST

Do you know this woman? It's Janica Kostelic of Croatia, skiing in a February 2005 event in Are, Sweden.

Finland's Janne Happonen, second from left, with his ski-jumping teammates.

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