Karen Budge

Karen Annette Budge (born November 14, 1949) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She had three podium finishes and 30 top ten results in World Cup competitions between 1967 and 1972; overall her best result was 15th place in the 1969–70 season. At the 1972 Winter Olympics she placed 14th in the downhill and 23rd in the giant slalom events.[1]

Karen Budge

Budge hospitalized with a dislocated shoulder at the 1968 Winter Olympics, reading a Charlie Brown book by Charles M. Schulz
Personal information
Full name	Karen Annette Budge
Born	(1949-11-14) November 14, 1949 Jackson, Wyoming, U.S.
Height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Spouse(s)	Gordi Eaton
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Alpine skiing
Club	Jackson Hole Ski Club
Retired	1972

Born and raised in Jackson, Wyoming, Budge married Gordi Eaton, a former alpine ski racer and coach. They reside in Middlebury, Vermont and co-own a restaurant in Lincoln, New Hampshire, in the White Mountains near Loon Mountain and Cannon Mountain ski areas.[1][2]

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in France, eighteen-year-old Budge was testing her wax on a practice course an hour before the women's downhill at Chamrousse, and narrowly avoided a full collision with a member of the Moroccan men's team, Said Housni, who had been warned once before to stay off the hill. She fell, suffered a dislocated shoulder, and did not start.[3][4]