KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho man is looking for a permanent home for a monument honoring south-central Idaho’s six female Olympians.
The Idaho Mountain Express reports (https://bit.ly/2kSBLps ) that Brian Barsotti is working to raise funds to build statues of Idaho women who have won medals in Winter Olympic Games or Paralympic Games: Gretchen Fraser, Picabo Street, Kaitlyn Farrington, Christin Cooper, Muffy Davis and Susie Corrock. Two statues of Fraser have already been built.
Fraser won a gold medal in the slalom and a silver medal in the combined in the 1948 Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Street won a silver medal in the downhill in the 1994 Olympics in Kvitfjell, Norway, and a gold medal in the super G in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Farrington won a gold medal in the women’s snowboard halfpipe in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Cooper won a silver medal in the giant slalom in the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Davis won a silver medal in the slalom in the 1998 Paralympic Games in Nagano, Japan, and silver medals in the downhill, super G and giant slalom in the 2002 Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City.
Corrock won a bronze medal in the downhill in the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
Barsotti last week asked the Sun Valley City Council to house the monument at Festival Meadows. The council and Mayor Peter Hendricks endorsed the idea.
“The project needs a permanent home,” Barsotti told the council.
Barsotti estimated that it may cost between $25,000 to $50,000 to prepare the site for the monument. The council did not vote to spend anything on the project, but did approve a resolution in support of it.
“The purpose for the Festival Meadows would be ideally served by having the monument there,” Councilwoman Jane Conard said.
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Information from: Idaho Mountain Express, https://www.mtexpress.com
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