Do you remember the 1992 Winter Olympics? That was the year that skater Kristi Yamaguchi became the first Asian American to come home with a gold medal from the Winter games.
That was a high point, but After her retirement from amateur competition following the Olympics there were many other championship titles over the years.
In 2011 she published her first children’s book, Dream Big Little Pig. The main character, Poppy, finds success as a figure skater. That little book became a New York Times best seller, and it inspired a sequel the following year called It’s a Big World, Little Pig.
I met Kristi when she was on a book tour – we did the interview just before a talk at a jam packed bookstore in suburban Washington D.C..
So here now, from 2012, Kristi Yamaguchi.
Kristi Yamaguchi is 54 now. Mattel last year introduced the Yamaguchi Barbie doll.