-
Kari's hobbies include knitting, crocheting, sewing, painting and wood carving.
-
Kari would like to meet Ozzy Osbourne and the Pope, though not necessarily at the same time.
-
Kari's favorite band is Kiss.
-
Kari's favorite television shows are "Friends," "Frasier," "Seinfeld," "South Park," and a Norwegian reality show about putting together a soccer team with out-of-shape players.
-
Kari's favorite movies are "The Matrix" and "Ice Age."
-
Kari moved to Oslo, Norway, in 2003, waiting until she was 29 years old to leave her parents' house.
-
Kari's father drives heavy construction machinery while her mother does social work.
-
Kari planned to end her Olympics career in Freestyle Skiing-Moguls after the 2006 Turin (Torino) Games.
-
Kari is an avid skydiver and has competed at the Norwegian national championships. A team of competitors jump out of a plane and create skydiver formations, which are filmed and evaluated by judges. In the summer of 2004, she completed an estimated 150 skydiving jumps.
-
Kari drives a Ssangyong Rexton, a luxury SUV model produced by Ssangyong, South Korea's fourth-largest automaker.
-
Kari began moguls skiing at the age of 15.
-
Kari injured a disc in her back during a Big Air competition in the spring of 2000.
-
Kari has had seven knee operations.
-
Kari only placed 15th at the 2005 World Championships in moguls, although she won a silver medal in the dual moguls event.
-
Kari won the gold medal at the 2001 and 2003 World Championships in both moguls and dual moguls (a non-Olympic event).
-
Kari finished second in the overall 2004-2005 World Cup standings for women's moguls. It was the fifth consecutive year that she has ranked in the top three in the World Cup standings.
-
Kari won the Women's Moguls World Cup competition in Lake Placid, N.Y., in January 2006.
-
Kari is 5' 6" tall and weighs 154 lbs.
-
Kari won the Olympic silver medal in the Women's Freestyle Skiing-Moguls competition at the 2006 Torino Games.
-
Kari won the gold medal in Women's Freestyle Skiing-Moguls at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
-
Kari won her first Olympic medal in Women's Freestyle Skiing-Moguls at the 1998 Nagano Games, where she won a bronze medal.
-
Kari was unable to compete at the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer in her home country of Norway because of an ACL injury. She sustained the injury at a World Cup meet on Feb. 7, 1994, just days before the Olympics mogul competition.
-
Kari, a competitor in Women's Freestyle Skiing-Moguls, made her Olympic debut at the 1992 Albertville Games. She placed 14th.