Fifty years after Barbara Ann Cochran won gold in the women's slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, her son won a silver medal of his own.
U.S. skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle beamed as his mother surprised him with a phone call on TODAY Tuesday because now they both know what it feels like to take home an Olympic medal.
"I don’t remember," she told Craig Melvin."I was so excited, I was just so proud. I was crying, it was just unbelievable. Congratulations, I’m just so proud Ryan, so proud of you." "It was so late here, and it was two late nights in a row, it was really taking a toll on me," Barbara said."So I got into my pajamas. Everybody else was in bed, everybody else had gone to sleep. I was watching on my laptop, and then started screaming as he was coming down, like really helping him along. ‘Go Ryan! Go Ryan! Go Ryan!'"
"So what I’ve taken to doing, started to do now, it’s like every time he’s racing, I talk to the angels," she said."I say, 'OK, Ryan’s racing today, please help him get down safely and healthy, and no more accidents, no more injuries.'"
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