ted and his brother in racing garb as children there are not a lot of trophies from those early years or pictures of ted celebrating from a medal podium as a boy or preteenbut in every photo from a ski hill ted ligety is smilinghe was very shy when he was young but not on skis cyndi sharp said standing in the bedroom and even though he wasnt getting top results he just remained so incredibly driven it was almost like he knew he was going to prove everyone wrongnext up backing up his shocking upset at the 2006 turin games with more olympic hardware a second or third olympic gold medal would look good next to ligetys four world championship goldsif that were to happen those closest to ligety are certain it would not change himwhen im at a race in europe hell be getting mobbed by fans and people will come up to me and say oh my god youre ted ligetys girlfriend whats that like pascoe said and i laugh because you know hes just ted we go back to utah and he hangs out with the same old friends he had from years agoligety calls it a key to his successim nobody special at home he said walking unnoticed through the park city streets they know me from way back im just the kid who learned to ski faster