- Jennifer Rodriguez
Jennifer Rodriguez (born
June 8 ,1976 inMiami, FL ) is a Cuban-American speed skater. She started her career as an artistic roller skater, winning multiple national championships and placing second and third at world championships. Later she switched toinline speed skating and became world champion in1993 . Her inline speed coach was Bob Manning.In
1996 she made another career move by giving it a try on ice, in order to have a chance to make the Olympic Team. This was a success, and she participated in the 1998, 2002, and2006 Winter Olympics , winning two bronze medals inSalt Lake City in2002 . Her nickname is Miami Ice.She is married to American speed skater
KC Boutiette , who was the first to switch frominline speed skating to ice skating and motivated Rodriguez to do the same.ee also
* List of famous Cuban-Americans.
External links
* [http://www.usolympicteam.com/26_1030.htm Jen Rodriguez's U.S. Olympic Team bio] ... with features and photos
* [http://www.fotos.desg.de/athletes.php?showAthletes=all&id=94 Photos of Jennifer Rodriguez]References
* [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino2006/usa/Jennifer+Rodriguez/606808 Yahoo! Sports Turin profile]
* [http://www.usspeedskating.org/ussathletes/Rodriguez.html US Speedskating profile]
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