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Olympics Flashback: Hindsight is 14K GOLD!!!

Back before John Shuster and Jessie Diggins won Olympic gold ... and even when people still thought Chad Salmela was a quiet, laid-back sports commentator, KUMD was bringing you live coverage from the Winter Games in Vancouver and Sochi.

We predicted their success back then, and we're thrilled to celebrate with them now.  Enjoy these highlights from Games past and conversations with Olympians "before they were stars"!

 
John Shuster on curling

John Shuster: "This could be the best game I've ever played"

John Shuster: John (and Luke) Shuster on the road to the 2014 Winter Games

John Shuster: When a key to the Curling Club was a big deal, John Shuster

Jessie Diggins: Here Comes Diggins, indeed!

Jason Cork: Wax on, wax off

Robb Stauber: "Skill and speed is the strength of our game"

Chad Salmela: "Here comes Diggins! Here comes Diggins!!"

Chad Salmela: Commentator Chad Salmela at Vancouver

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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