Jeremy Bloom

Jeremy Bloom is an American former skier and football player born on 2 April 1982 in Fort Collins, Colorado, and raised in nearby Loveland. As a skier he is a one-time world champion, two-time Olympian and ten-time World Cup gold medalist, and he was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2013. At fifteen he became the youngest male freestyle skier ever to make the United States Ski Team, and he competed in moguls at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, placing ninth and sixth. He was also a wide receiver and punt returner at the University of Colorado until the NCAA ruled him ineligible over his skiing sponsorships, and was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL draft. His older sister is the author Molly Bloom. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Jeremy Bloom.