Colorado Springs -- Former Olympic skier Jimmie Heuga, who battled multiple sclerosis for 40 years, died Monday in Boulder, Colo., at age 66, The Denver Post reported.
Heuga won the bronze medal and Billy Kidd took the silver in the slalom at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. They were the first American men to win alpine medals in the Olympics.
"Jimmie Heuga was a champion in every sense of the word," said U.S. Ski Team President Bill Marolt, who was also an Olympic skier in 1964. "He was a champion as an athlete, as a person and any way you want to measure him."
Heuga dedicated his life to research and treatment of multiple sclerosis, his friends said.
