Kari Traa

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.