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Kari Traa missed the cut for the final round and finished 14th in Albertville - the first official Olympic mogul competition.
Kari Traa missed the cut for the final round and finished 14th in Albertville - the first official Olympic mogul competition.
She has a total of 37 World Cup victories. Kari did not compete when the Games came to Lillehammer, Norway in 1994. She injured her knee after wiping out on a training run just three weeks before the Olympics.
Traa attracted attention when she posed almost nude in a series of pictures in the sports magazine Ultrasport in 2001.
Her autobiography Kari was issued in 2006. After finishing her active career she has been engaged in recruitement of young ski talents and participated as arranger of world cup events.
She is also engaged in the festival Ekstremsportveko (Extreme Sports Week) held at her home community Voss, regarded as one of the world"s largest extreme sports festivals. Kari Traa was elected "Sexiest woman in Norway" in 2002 by the magazine MANN. Her og Nå and television 2 Nettavisen elected her as "Most sexy woman" in both 2003 and 2004.
In 2007 she was second on a similar list compiled by the television-program God kveld, Norge!.
She was also mentioned as a sponsor for Ylvis in a segment in their television show Tonight with Ylvis where they tried to become "big" in Swahiliwood. She was called by the boys and asked to co-fund a movie production which Bård and Vegard were in, that had run out of money. She co-funded it with a local car-repair shop in Norway and was mentioned in the movie"s dialogue.