Debi Thomas, who would go on to become the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics, was born on this day in Poughkeepsie, New York. At the 1988 Calgary Olympics, she earned the bronze in women’s figure skating. Thomas also became the 1986 World Champion and a two-time U.S. national champion, breaking barriers in a traditionally white-dominated sport.
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