The U.S. Olympic staff captured a record-breaking eleventh gold medal on the Milano Cortina Winter Video games on Saturday, after Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis received the blended staff aerials title.
The eleventh gold breaks the report set on the final Olympics on U.S. soil – in Salt Lake Metropolis in 2002, which has lengthy stood as a turning level for a Winter sports activities program that had struggled over earlier many years.
“Our focus and our technique has all the time been about breadth,” stated Sarah Hirshland, the CEO of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. “We wish to win in all the pieces. We wish to make each sport higher. Some might argue there are nations that go a mile deep in sure sports activities and actually dominate. Our aim has been to enhance Winter sport throughout the board.”
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The win lifted the U.S. to 30 medals general for the Olympics. That is second to Norway, which, a day earlier, received its seventeenth gold medal, setting a Winter Video games report.
The most important gold-medal hauls for the U.S. got here in freeskiing and speedskating — two every (18%), with speedster Jordan Stolz capturing each on the ice.
Crew USA might add extra gold medals to its tally, together with on Sunday when the U.S. males’s hockey staff takes on Crew Canada.
There are 38 extra medal occasions on this system this 12 months than there have been in 2002.
“We acknowledged we wished to be a podium nation,” Fin Kirwan, the USOPC’s chief of Olympic sport, stated of the U.S. aim of being top-three on the medals desk. “We stated it’s going to possible take 30 medals and we acquired after it. The athletes delivered on their potential and, by flip, we hit the report on gold-medal efficiency, which exhibits that our absolute best had been in a position to execute.”
Listed here are some seems and hyperlinks to the remainder of the 11 U.S. gold-medal winners:
Alex Ferreira, freeskiing
American freeskier Alex Ferreira rounds out his Olympic assortment together with his first gold in Milan. He took silver in Pyeongchang in 2018, and bronze 4 years in the past in Beijing.
Breezy Johnson, alpine
Her lengthy journey to a gold medal included a knee damage 4 years in the past on the identical mountain the place she received.
Elizabeth Lemley, moguls
Nicknamed “Lizard,” she joins a lexicon of nice U.S. moguls skiers, together with 2010 champion Hannah Kearney and her teammate, Jaelin Kauf, who now has three silver medals.
Alysa Liu, determine skating
The 20-year-old stepped away after the Beijing Video games, rediscovered her love for determine skating and fortunately claimed the gold medal — the primary for U.S. ladies since 2002.
Elana Meyers Taylor, bobsled
At her sixth Olympics, she lastly broke via, turning into the oldest Winter Olympian to win gold at age 41.
Mikaela Shiffrin, alpine
Probably the most profitable skier of all time cashes in on the Olympics with slalom gold after a tear-stained shutout 4 years in the past.
Jordan Stolz, speedskating (2)
Joined Eric Heiden at Lake Placid in 1980 as solely the second man to seize the five hundred and 1,000. Goes for a 3rd title Saturday night time.
U.S. determine skating staff
Liu, Amber Glenn and Ilia Malinin are among the many members of a staff that brings house a second straight gold; the final one took two years to seize after the Russian doping saga.
U.S. ladies’s hockey staff
A tense thriller, highlighted by Hilary Knight’s equalizer with 2:04 left, then Megan Keller’s winner in additional time.
