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Meet Team USA's 2018 Olympic Figure Skating Lineup

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USA's figure skating team includes fresh faces and Olympic veterans with strong medal potential

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Red Gerard's full gold medal run in snowboard slopestyle

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The first U.S. gold medal of the 2018 WInter Olympics was won by 17-year-old Red Gerard, who went from last place to first place on his final run to win the men's snowboard slopestyle final.

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I like Snow ❄️ boarding because people like Shawn White can do awesome backflips and stuff. It looks so cool 😎

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I like watching ski jumping because they jump off a hill⛷

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Savchenko, Massot win gold medal free skate with record breaking performance

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Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot collapsed in relief and joy after their gold medal-winning free skate

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Savchenko, Massot win gold medal free skate with record breaking performance

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Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot collapsed in relief and joy after their gold medal-winning free skate

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US figure skater makes history, landing triple axel at Olympics

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I like slopestyle  because it looks really fun and thrilling https://youtu.be/m0nJr_cpYWU

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I picked snowboarding because

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bN7l1ztW-wIThe biathlon is when you ski with a gun on your back and you go to the shooting range if you hit the targets you will finish faster,but if you miss a target then you have to go around again

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Because it is cool and interesting and I have do it before it was fun. I love and never now that a lot of people participate.

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I love snowboarding because they do amazing tricks and lots of practice a

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Since I like skating and I just can't believe how good people can be good at skating they have to practice alot  to do all that.

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My favorite Winter Olympics sport is the 4 man bobsled because You have to push it on ice and jump on and sled.

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I love figure skating because it's slow but  intense. I learned that a tripple axle is a tripple spin in the air!

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I like figure skating because it's fun to watch people dance and be successful and some can do the impossible in figure skating and it's cool to watch the impossible ⛸🏅https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YBG8O1LY3oQ

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I like figure skating because you can do a lot of cool things when you are on the ice. When you are figure skating,you are kind of making art because you make shapes with your body well dancing. It brings people together.

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I like this sport because there's shooting and skiing  https://youtu.be/bbptPx9dmC4

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I like Figure Skating because I learned that they have to make the skating look good and have topot their moves together, and I thought was interesting was in training they have to go in a fast spinning thang it looks so cool.

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I like figure Skating because I love to skate and I love watching people Skating. And I really think it's cool. I learned that there was a famous man who won figure skating but I don't remember his name. That's why I like figure skating.

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Because it is cool and interesting and I have done it before it was fun.

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Jude | Skeleton

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I like figure skating because I love ice skating with my family and friends and I also love roller skating which reminds me of ice skating which is kind of figure skating .⛸

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Jude | Skeleton

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Ice dancing is a type of figure skating that is closely related to ballroom dancing. Ice dancing  was added to the Olympics in 1952 https://youtu.be/4oBLiLCDKps

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I like snowboarding because they do amazing flips and tricks.

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Stunning opening ceremony for PyeongChang Winter Olympics

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Stunning opening ceremony for PyeongChang Winter Olympics

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Stunning opening ceremony for PyeongChang Winter Olympics

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Winter Olympics 2018: Medals Table, Results and Schedule

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Winter Olympics 2018: Medals Table, Results and Schedule

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Norwegians Take Top Two Spots in Men's Downhill

Aksel Lund Svindal gave Norway its first men's downhill gold on Thursday.

Under a bright sky and a warm sun, Svindal turned in a gutsy run on a winding but tame course that was almost perfectly suited to him. His teammate, Kjetil Jansrud, took the silver medal, finishing 0.12 of a second behind Svindal in a triumphant showing for the country that has won more medals than any other at the Winter Olympics but is better known for its prowess in Nordic sports.

Beat Feuz of Switzerland finished 0.18 of a second behind Svindal and won bronze.

All three medal winners were lucky enough to be among the first 10 skiers on a day when the sun was heating up and slowing down the snow with each passing minute.

Svindal, one of the elder statesmen of the Alpine circuit at 35, blasted out of the starting gate, poling and skating his way down the initial slope. Midway through his run he lost his balance, went upright in the middle of a jump and landed on the back of his skis 20 feet down the hill. But Svindal regained his stability and ended up gaining speed on the relatively flat and winding third quarter of the course where so many other races were losing time.

At nearly 6 feet 3 inches and 220 pounds, Svindal had gravity on his side and crossed the finish line at 1 minute 40.25 seconds, besting the time Feuz had posted only minutes earlier. Before long, it was clear no one was going to catch the Norwegians. With a dozen skiers still at the top of the mountain, finishers began making their way over to Svindal to congratulate him. - MATTHEW FUTTERMAN

Gold to Germany in Figure Skating Pairs

Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany unexpectedly won the gold medal in pairs figure skating on Thursday, rebounding from fourth place after the short program with a stirring performance of passion, power and control.

The Chinese pair, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who were first after the short program, made a couple of mistakes on their jumps in the long program, and the errors proved decisive in an event decided by less than half a point.

Savchenko and Massot broke their own world record with 159.31 points for a long program. But it was not even clear that Massot would be able to compete in these Winter Olympics until November. He is a native of France and only on his third try did he pass a written exam required to gain his German citizenship. - JERE LONGMAN

Full coverage: here.

Germany Dominates Luge

Germany won the luge relay, giving it three of the four luge gold medals at the Games. The United States was fourth, a tenth of a second out of the medals.

Canada Wins Speedskating Race

Ted-Jan Bloemen of Canada won the 10,000-meter speedskating race, ending a string of five straight speedskating golds for the Netherlands. But in another way, the streak continued: Bloemen was born in the Netherlands and switched nationalities three years ago.

Win for Boe

Johannes Boe of Norway won the men's 20,000-meter individual biathlon race. An early miss in the easiest of the shooting positions, prone, dropped him as far back as 52nd place, but he worked his way back to take the gold. At 24, Boe has been seen as the up-and-coming young star of the sport.

Mikaela Shiffrin Wins Giant Slalom

Mikaela Shiffrin, the almost unbeatable American slalom skier, proved she had successfully expanded her world-class repertoire by winning the 2018 Olympic giant slalom on Thursday.

After putting up the second-fastest time on the first run, behind the little-known Italian Manuela Mölgg, Shiffrin skied the top of the second run with cool efficiency and a veteran's precision. She built a huge lead that protected her against a slip-up with a handful of gates remaining.

Shiffrin's combined time of 2:20.02 was 0.39 of a second better than that of the runner-up, Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway. Federica Brignone of Italy won the bronze, while Mölgg slipped to eighth.Full coverage here.

Young Swede Wins Biathlon

Hanna Oeberg of Sweden, 22, won the women's 15-kilometer biathlon for the first significant victory of her career. Oeberg hit every target - one of only two competitors to do so - and won by 24 seconds. Anastasiya Kuzmina of Slovakia was second and Laura Dahlmeier of Germany, who won the first two women's biathlon events here, was third.

Norway Wins in Cross Country

Ragnhild Haga of Norway won the women's 10-kilometer cross-country race. The American Jessica Diggins finished fifth, less than four seconds out of the medals. No American has won a cross-country medal since 1976.

Frenchman Repeats in Snowboard

Pierre Vaultier of France defended his title in the snowboard cross competition, narrowly beating out Jarryd Hughes of Australia. Vaultier had almost missed the final when he crashed with two other riders in his semifinal heat. But he got back in the race and sneaked into the last qualifying spot.

First Blood to Canada

In what is very likely to be a preview of the gold medal game, Canada beat the United States, 2-1, in women's hockey preliminary play. Meghan Agosta and Sarah Nurse scored for the Canadians in the second period, while Kendall Coyne got a consolation goal for the United States in the third.

The U.S. missed a chance in the second period when Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson missed a penalty shot, shooting over the goal.

Here's What You Missed

Shaun White, the snowboarding legend, landed back-to-back 1440s in his final run to claim the gold medal. Full coverage: here.

Jorien ter Mors won the women's 1,000-meter speedskating race, making the Dutch team five-for-five in the sport so far at these Games. Brittany Bowe of the United States was fourth.

Jan Mursak scored 38 seconds into overtime - his second goal of the game - as Slovenia rallied from a two-goal deficit in the third period to stun the United States, 3-2, in overtime in their men's hockey opener.

Here's What's Next

Men's figure skating will begin, with a strong field including Yuzuru Hanyu, Patrick Chan and Nathan Chen.

Shiffrin goes for another gold in the slalom, her best event.

Norway's Svindal goes for another Alpine gold in the super-G.

Lindsey Jacobellis seeks redemption in snowboard cross.

Gold medals will be awarded Friday in skeleton, cross country, speedskating and aerials.

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Winter Olympics 2018: Medals Table, Results and Schedule

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Aksel Lund Svindal gave Norway its first men's downhill gold on Thursday. Under a bright sky and a warm sun, Svindal turned in a gutsy run on a winding but tame course that was almost perfectly suited to him.

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What to Know About Every Single Winter Olympic Sport in 2018

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What to Know About Every Single Winter Olympic Sport in 2018

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From a 17-year-old snowboarding star to a gold-medal-hungry women's ice hockey team, Team USA's athletes competing in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, are looking to make a mark.

The official roster for Team USA was finalized just weeks before the 2018 Winter Olympics started with the Opening Ceremony on Feb. 9, and the competitors in the 15 Winter Olympic sports each bring a unique story to the games. Maame Biney is a 18-year-old who already made history as the first black woman to qualify for Team USA's short track speedskating team. Making his return in 2018, Gus Kenworthy is a freestyle skiing star who became one of the first openly gay male athletes to qualify for a U.S. Winter Olympic team. And Chloe Kim is a 17-year-old snowboarding phenom who is the favorite to win gold in the sport for Team USA.

As for how the American athletes will fare against stiff competition in PyeongChang, viewers will have to wait and see. But here's what to watch for as Team USA competes in each Winter Olympic sport in 2018:

Alpine Skiing

Reigning Olympic gold medalist and overall world champion Mikaela Shiffrin is poised for another triumphant alpine skiing run during the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. When she was just 18, Shiffrin became the youngest athlete ever to win an Olympic gold in the Winter Olympic sport of slalom - an event that involves skiing downhill between poles and gates - a gold medal she's trying to earn yet again at age 22.

Shiffrin has the second-most World Cup victories of any U.S. female skier - just behind Lindsey Vonn, who is aiming to make a return to the Olympic podium in 2018. Injuries have plagued Vonn in recent years, but the veteran skier earned her first World Cup win of the season in December - just months away from PyeongChang.

Biathlon

Three-time Olympian Lowell Bailey is trying to secure Team USA's first-ever Olympic biathlon medal in PyeongChang.

That will be a leap for the athlete, who earned Team USA's highest ever finish in the Winter Olympic sport with eighth place in the men's 20-kilometer during the Sochi Olympics in 2014. But in 2017, Bailey won the U.S.'s first world championship gold medal. And in PyeongChang, Bailey hopes to once again make history.

He was the first U.S. athlete to officially qualify for the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics.

On the women's side of the Winter Olympic sport, Susan Dunklee is one to watch. The 2014 Olympian earned a silver medal in the mass start at the world championships in 2017 in Austria.

Bobsled

Leading the women's bobsled team in 2018, Elana Meyers Taylor is hoping improve on her silver from Sochi with gold. Meyers Taylor was the first American woman to ever win a bobsled world championship in 2015.

The two-time Olympic medalist has also advanced gender equality in the sport. She has competed in the 4-man event with three male brakemen, a first for the Winter Olympic sport that had required women to race only two-person sleds.

The men's side lost Olympic great Steven Holcomb, who died in 2017. The multiple-Olympic medalist made history in the Winter Olympic sport in 2010 when he won the U.S. its first gold in the 4-man bobsled event since 1948.

Cross-Country Skiing

The women's cross-country skiing team has made significant strides in recent years, with its best athletes scoring medals and making the podium in international competitions.

World champion Jessie Diggins is leading the Winter Olympics team into PyeongChang after landing fifth in this season's world cup standings, according to Team USA's website. Teammate Kikkan Randall won a world championship medal in the sprint just after giving birth to her first child, and Sadie Bjornsen began her world cup season with a second-place finish in November in Finland.

While the U.S. trails behind European nations in cross-country skiing, Americans have improved in recent international competitions. In February 2017, Diggins and Randall made history when they earned silver and bronze medals in the world championship sprints.

Curling

Team USA is hoping to return to the podium after a more-than-decade-long curling drought. Four-time Olympian John Shuster will be the skip for the Winter Olympics team once again; he was on the 2006 team that won Team USA's historic bronze medal. His 2006 teammate Joe Polo will also compete in PyeongChang.

The U.S. has an extra chance to earn a curling medal this year, with the addition of the new mixed doubles curling event. In December, siblings Becca and Matt Hamilton secured their spot to represent the U.S. in the new event. They bested Shuster and Cory Christensen for the spot, as well as Polo and Tabitha Peterson, who had won bronze at the 2016 World Mixed Doubles Championship.

Figure Skating

A rising figure skating star, Nathan Chen was the first U.S. man in eight years to win the ISU Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan - the last big-ticket international competition before the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. He beat Japan's Shoma Uno by less than 1 point.

As the 2017 Four Continents champion and U.S. champion, Chen also beat reigning Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu in competition earlier this year (Hanyu is now struggling with an ankle injury).

Chen has excited Team USA fans who are hoping for a men's singles medal this year.

Other figure skaters to watch: Siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani. They are 2017 world bronze medalists and two-time U.S. champions in ice dance hoping to follow Meryl Davis and Charlie White's historic gold in Sochi in 2014.

Freestyle Skiing

The halfpipe and slopestyle skiing events, a sport new to the Winter Olympics in 2014, will have a number of Team USA athletes to watch - particularly Gus Kenworthy, who earned silver in 2014's slopestyle. Kenworthy has landed on the podium for the halfpipe in international competition as well, including a halfpipe win during his 2015-16 season at the U.S. Grand Prix.

Kenworthy's life off the slopes has also broken new ground. He came out in 2015, and could become the first openly gay male athlete to compete in a Winter Olympic Games.

Also at the PyeongChang games, Olympic champions Maddie Bowman and Joss Christensen are both hoping to defend their titles from 2014.

Ice Hockey

The U.S. women's national ice hockey team is gearing up for another intense match against rival Canada. And with professional men's players out of the picture this year because the NHL barred players from competing in the Winter Olympic sport, the women's team is the center of attention.

Team USA won silver in Sochi in 2014 after a 3-2 overtime loss to Canada. But the U.S. is looking to make a comeback against its northern neighbor this time around. Recent international matches have gone back and forth between the U.S. and Canada, with the U.S. posting a 5-2 win against Canada on Oct. 22, and a 1-5 loss just three days later on Oct. 25.

Brianna Decker, currently Team USA's top scorer, recently told NBC Sports that success in Pyeonchang means "a gold medal." As for Team USA's rivalry with Canada, Decker says, "Though some of us may be friends off the ice, we are not friends on the ice."

Long Track Speedskating

Members of Team USA's men's and women's long track speedskating teams aim to get on the podium in 2018. Brittany Bowe is making a comeback in the Winter Olympic sport after suffering a concussion that kept her off the ice for months. She holds the world record in the women's 1,000 meter and earned bronze in competition this year - a title that boosted her confidence following her injury, she told NBC Olympics in October.

This Winter Olympic sport has long been a U.S. stronghold in the Winter Games, with returning athletes including four-time Olympic medalist Shani Davis, Olympic bronze medalist Mitch Whitmmore and 2016-17 Grand World Cup champion Heather Bergsma. But skaters failed to win any medals in 2014 amid controversies over new uniforms and questionable training decisions.

2018 also includes a first in the Winter Olympic sport. Athlete Erin Jackson became the first African American woman to qualify for the U.S. long track speedskating Olympic team after training in the sport for just four months.

Luge

Luge athletes for Team USA have high goals going into the 2018 Winter Olympics - and standout Erin Hamlin may lead them there.

The three-time Olympian won the U.S. its first medal ever for singles luge with her 2014 bronze, and she hopes to stand a little higher on the podium in 2018. Hamlin is a two-time world champion, including winning the title in the 2017 spring race at the world championships.

"I do think the U.S. can win gold," Hamlin recently said. "In what, I'm not sure, but in something though."

The 10-person luge team also includes Tucker West, who at age 18 was the youngest luger to qualify for the Olympics in 2014.

Nordic Combined

Bryan and Taylor Fletcher of Steamboat Springs, Colo., are two dominant figures in the Winter Olympic sport for Team USA. The brothers are both former Olympians and were on the U.S.'s 2013 world championship team, which won the bronze medal.

Bryan, the elder brother, brought in four top-15 finishes in international competition a year ago, according Team USA. The nordic combined athlete overcame cancer as a child - a difficult time during which he found happiness in ski jumping.

Taylor competed in the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics and, among the events within nordic combined, is best at cross-country skiing.

Team USA faces a difficult challenge this year, however. New scoring guidelines for this Winter Olympic sport now stress the jumping portion of the event - which is not Team USA's strong suit.

Short Track Speedskating

World record holder and Olympics medalist J.R. Celski will lead the U.S. men's team for short track speedskating in PyeongChang. The team includes John-Henry Krueger, who has medaled in international competition. Aaron Tran, a 21-year-old, also qualified to compete for Team USA, securing his spot after placing second behind Krueger in the men's 500m at the Olympic Team Trials in December.

On the women's side, 18-year-old Maame Biney already made history in December as the first black woman to qualify for the short track speedskating U.S. Olympic Team. She won bronze in the women's 500m at the 2016-17 Short Track Junior World Championship.

Skeleton

Matthew Antoine slides back into Olympic competition after earning bronze in Sochi in 2014 and completing several years of successful international appearances. The Wisconsin-based athlete is looking to get another medal in the Winter Olympic sport this time around. He is joined by contenders John Daly, who took a break from the sport after Sochi.

On the women's side, Olympian Katie Uhlaender is also trying to beat her fourth-place finish in Sochi.

Ski Jumping

Though she has been plagued with injuries in recent years, 2013 world champion Sarah Hendrickson is the only member of the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team in ski jumping returning in 2018. She placed 21st in Sochi after she tore her MCL and ACL just months beforehand.

But, if she's healthy, Team USA anticipates that Hendrickson could be a medal contender in PyeongChang. In a blog post on Team USA's website, Hendrickson said her training over the summer went well. "There are strengths you gain after fighting so many challenges - the positivity of just being me and the appreciation of having the opportunity to going to an Olympics feel like enough," she wrote.

Women's Olympic ski jumping only just debuted in Sochi in 2014.

Snowboard

Olympic medalists including Shaun White have dominated this Winter Olympics sport for Team USA in the past, but one young standout is expected to leave a mark this year.

Chloe Kim, 17, easily secured her spot on Team USA in December. The California-based snowboarder was the first woman to land back-to-back 1080s in a competition last year and sits at the top of world rankings for the sport. She's a favorite to win gold in the halfpipe event in PyeongChang.

Earlier this year, TIME named Kim one of the 30 Most Influential Teens in 2017.

"It'll be a good experience to go through such a crazy event with my family," Kim told TIME. "But at the same time, I'm very worried, 'cause it's the freaking Olympics. I want to do really good. I've got to nail it."

Correction: The original version of this story misstated the age of Team USA short track speedskating athlete Aaron Tran. He is 21, not 16.

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What to Know About Every Single Winter Olympic Sport in 2018

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From snowboarding to curling to women's ice hockey, here's what to watch for in every single Winter Olympic sport in 2018