Ophélie David

Ophélie David, born Ophélie Rácz on 6 July 1976, is a retired French freestyle skier who specialized in ski cross, in which she won a world championship and four consecutive Winter X Games and was once ranked number one in the world. She began as an alpine skier, competing for Hungary at the 1994 Winter Olympics in the slalom and the combined without finishing either; she could compete for Hungary because her father, János Rácz, held Hungarian citizenship and had played basketball for that country at the 1964 Summer Olympics. At the first Olympic ski cross race, in Vancouver, she was the favourite for gold but crashed out in the quarterfinals and was placed ninth. She finished fourth at Sochi after falling in the final. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Ophélie David.