People: Apr. 2, 1984

The snow had barely melted from Olympic Gold Medalist Bill Johnson's skis before the brash Californian was burning up yet another course last week. Johnson's current speeding is not on the slopes of Canada's Whistler Mountain, where he won the final race of the men's World Cup downhill season earlier this month, but on the horizontal track at California's Riverside International Raceway. Johnson, who was gearing up for the pro-celebrity during the Toyota Grand Prix to be held this week in Long Beach, Calif., is typically nonchalant about trading in his skis for...

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