Team USA has selected luger Erin Hamlin as its flag bearer for the Olympic opening ceremony in PyeongChang.

Hamlin, who was selected for the role by her teammates, will carry the flag for Team USA during the ceremony Friday.

She will be the fourth luger to serve as U.S. flag bearer and the first since 2010.

The three-time Olympian, who won bronze in Sochi, was the first American female on the U.S. Luge team to medal. She plans to retire after the PyeongChang games.

“Being named to an Olympic Team is an amazing accomplishment, and making four teams and winning the bronze medal is so much more than I could I have imagined I would accomplish. Now being voted flag bearer is a whole new level,” Hamlin said in a statement.

“Working hard and earning success is one thing, being acknowledged as a great representative and member of Team USA by fellow athletes – many who I have been inspired by – is above and beyond anything I’ve experienced. It is definitely a privilege and honor to be the one to lead the team and will be a very special moment. I can’t wait to share it with them all!” </s> Team USA have acted "dishonourably" by tossing a coin to decide who would be their Winter Olympics flag bearer, a double gold medallist has claimed.

Speed skater Shani Davis appeared to criticise the decision on Twitter after luge slider Erin Hamlin was selected ahead of him for the role at Friday's opening ceremony in Pyeongchang.

Davis, competing in his fifth Games, used the hashtag 'Black History Month'.

He was the first black athlete to win individual Winters gold in 2006.

And he retained that 1000m long track title four years later, as well as winning 1500m silver in both Turin and Vancouver.
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Hamlin - who will race in her fifth and final Games - and Davis were among eight nominees for the flag bearer role.

They were tied at four votes each after an athlete from each of the USA's eight winter sports federations held a ballot on Wednesday.

It had already been agreed prior to the vote by the US Olympic Committee that a tie would be broken by a coin toss.

"We feel strongly toward Shani and they felt strongly for Erin," US speed skater Joey Mantia said. "That's just that."

Speaking before Davis' tweet, Hamlin said her family would be thrilled to watch her carry the flag.

"They're really pumped," she said. "We've grown up watching the Olympics and we're always like, 'Who's going to be carrying the flag?' And to actually be that person is insane."

Hamlin's team-mate Jayson Terdiman added that it is "one of the coolest things".

He said: "Not just does Erin get to hold that flag, but USA Luge gets to hold that flag. It's so cool. It's a great honour for our small sport." </s> After luger Erin Hamlin was chosen as the United States' representative for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Davis wrote the following:

According to the Associated Press (h/t ESPN.com), Hamlin and Davis were two of the eight candidates to carry the flag. A 4-4 deadlock in the voting led to a coin flip, which resulted in Hamlin winning the right to be flag-bearer.

The United States Olympic Committee made it known that voters were aware of a coin flip being the final tiebreaker if no majority decision could be reached.

"We feel strongly toward Shani and they felt strongly for Erin. That's just that." U.S. speedskater Joey Mantia said.

After learning of her selection, Hamlin offered the following, per the AP (h/t ESPN.com): "The nerves will be flying for sure. I slide. That's what I do. Put me at the top of the track, that's my happy place. Walking out in front of a lot of people and even more watching from home, hoping to not trip over my own feet or drop the flag is going to be way more nerve-wracking."

The 35-year-old Davis is now a five-time Olympian who has won two gold medals and two silver medals. At the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy, he became the first African American athlete to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics.

Hamlin, 31, is set to enter her fourth and final Winter Games. She won bronze at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, making her the first American luger to ever medal at the Winter Olympics in singles competition.

The opening ceremony for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics will take place Friday. </s> (CNN) The Winter Olympics haven't even officially started yet, and we already have our first controversy -- and it's over who'll carry the US flag in the opening ceremony.

On one side is Erin Hamlin, a world-renowned luger, two-time world champion and four-time Olympian.

On the other is Shani Davis -- a decorated speed skater and five-time Olympics qualifier.

The flag bearer is typically chosen in a vote of the eight US winter sport federations, which represent biathlon, bobsled and skeleton, curling, figure skating, hockey, luge, ski and snowboarding, and speed skating.

But this year, Hamlin and Davis tied 4-4.

And Davis was definitely not happy about it, venting in a tweet that the coin toss was "dishonorably" done.

"I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event," Davis tweeted. "@TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018 #PyeongChang2018."

CNN has reached out to the US Olympic Committee for comment.

For her part, Hamlin said she was excited about the prospect of carrying the flag.

"Working hard and earning success is one thing, being acknowledged as a great representative and member of Team USA by fellow athletes -- many who I have been inspired by -- is above and beyond anything I've experienced," Hamlin said in a statement.

"It is definitely a privilege and honor to be the one to lead the team and will be a very special moment. I can't wait to share it with them all!"

Hamlin will be the sixth woman in 23 games to carry the US flag, and the first since 2006. </s> It was a feel-good story for a few hours: luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the US flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes. And then Shani Davis tweeted.

With that, the entire process was called into controversy. The tweet posted to Davis’ account said the process by which Hamlin won was executed “dishonorably,” and included a reference to Black History Month raising the question of whether the speedskater was suggesting that race played a role in the decision. Davis is black, Hamlin is white.

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“I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event,” wrote Davis on Twitter. “@TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018”

Shani Davis (@ShaniDavis) I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event. @TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018 #PyeongChang2018 pic.twitter.com/dsmTtNkhJs

US speedskater Joey Mantia was more circumspect. “We feel strongly toward Shani and they felt strongly for Erin,” Mantia said. “That’s just that.”

Hamlin and Davis were among eight nominees for the flagbearer role, and athletes from each of the eight winter sports federations – bobsled and skeleton; ski and snowboarding; figure skating; curling; biathlon; hockey; speedskating and luge represented those nominees in a ballot that took place on Wednesday night.

The final vote was deadlocked at 4-4. Hamlin won a coin toss, the predetermined method of picking a winner if all else failed in the athlete-led process. The US Olympic Committee confirmed the tie, and that voters knew if the tie couldn’t be broken by them the coin toss would have to occur.

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Davis was certainly a worthy candidate. He is now a five-time Olympian, with two gold medals and two silver medals in his collection. It could not be determined if Davis posted the tweet himself, or if anyone else with access to his account may have. Davis’ mother, Cherie, said she was unaware of the tweet until an AP reporter spoke to her by phone. “I know something about a coin toss, he told me last night,” she said on Thursday. “I don’t know anything else. Is that all?”



Hamlin is a four-time Olympian, a winner of a bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Games, a two-time world champion and a winner of 23 World Cup medals. Despite that resume, Hamlin who is retiring after the Olympics never thought she would be the pick. In December, when asked in an interview if she thought it would be possible, Hamlin laughed. “To me, that always seems to be a really, really big-name person,” Hamlin said at the time.

This is not the first time Davis has been part of an Olympic controversy.

In 2006 Davis became the first African American to win an individual gold medal at a Winter Games but decided not to take part in the team pursuit and raised the ire of team-mate Chad Hedrick. Their animosity toward one another was obvious at a news conference, when Hedrick brought up the team pursuit and Davis stormed out of the room. </s> Speed skating pioneer Shani Davis made no secret of his desire to carry the stars and stripes into the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang Friday with a tweet aimed directly at the U.S. Olympic Committee.

"I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event," Davis, an Olympian for the fifth time at these Games, posted on his verified Twitter account. "@TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022."

He even seemed to suggest that race may have played a role in the outcome as he added hastag "BlackHistoryMonth2018" to the end of his tweet.

The coin toss went in favor of veteran luger Erin Hamlin after the final vote of the eight winter sports federations ended deadlocked at 4-4.

Davis, who owns two Olympic gold medals and a pair of silvers, is the first African-American athlete to win an individual title at a Winter Games.

Hamlin, from Remsen, New York, is a four-time Olympian who captured a bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Games.

The balloting took place Wednesday night. An athlete from each of the federations - bobsled and skeleton, ski and snowboarding, figure skating, curling, biathlon, hockey, speedskating and luge - voted for one of the eight nominees for the flag-bearer gig.

The U.S. Olympic Committee confirmed the tie to the AP and said that everyone involved knew that a coin toss would decide things if the final vote was all tied up.

Before Davis injected controversy into the vote, Hamlin expressed disbelief after being told she would lead Team USA into the ceremony to keep off the Pyeongchang Games.

"We've grown up watching the Olympics and we're always like, 'Who's going to be carrying the flag?' she said. "And to actually be that person is insane."

Hamlin, who is retiring after these Olympics, said "the nerves will be flying for sure."

"I slide," the two-time world champ added. "That’s what I do. Put me at the top of the track, that’s my happy place. Walking out in front of a lot of people and even more watching from home, hoping to not trip over my own feet or drop the flag is going to be way more nerve-wracking.”

USA Luge declined comment to the AP on Davis' tweet.

"We feel strongly toward Shani and they felt strongly for Erin," U.S. speedskater Joey Mantia said. "That's just that."

- With The Associated Press </s> Choosing which world-class athlete would carry the American flag at the Opening Ceremony for the 2018 Winter Olympics did not come without controversy.

Two-time Olympic speedskating champion Shani Davis said Team USA “dishonorably” used a coin toss to determine its flag bearer for the Games this year. The U.S. Olympic Committee announced Wednesday that luger Erin Hamlin would carry the flag for Team USA at the Opening Ceremony on Friday.

“I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event,” Davis tweeted. “Team USA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022.”

He also included a hashtag noting that it was Black History Month.

The coin toss, according to the Associated Press, came after a 4-4 tie between Davis and Hamlin. Olympic athletes from the eight different sports federations — biathlon, bobsled and skeleton, curling, hockey, figure skating, ski and snowboarding, luge and speedskating — voted for their choice, resulting in the tie.

Representatives from the U.S. Olympic Committee, the U.S. Speedskating Team and the U.S. Luge team did not immediately respond to requests for comment from TIME.

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Davis and Hamlin are both renowned athletes in their sport and have both made history at the Winter Olympics before. Davis is not only the first black athlete to ever win a gold medal in an individual event at the Winter Olympics, but also the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in the 1000 meters. He also has won the silver medal for the 1500-meter race twice. His two back-to-back wins came in 2006 and 2010. One of the most decorated athletes in his sport, Davis he will be competing in his fifth Winter Olympics this year.

Davis was also the first black athlete to qualify for Team USA’s Olympic speedskating team. This year, two other black athletes are on the team. Maame Biney, who has said Davis is one of her inspirations, will compete for the short track speedskating team, and Erin Jackson, an experienced inline skater who only started training on the ice just months ago, will compete for the long-track speedskating team. The three athletes are some of the few black athletes competing for Team USA.

A four-time Olympian, Hamlin became the first American athlete to win a medal in the luge event in Winter Olympics history when she earned a bronze at the 2014 Games in Sochi. A two-time world champion, Hamlin also has 23 world cup medals.

“Working hard and earning success is one thing, being acknowledged as a great representative and member of Team USA by fellow athletes – many who I have been inspired by – is above and beyond anything I’ve experienced,” Hamlin said in the announcement of her role as flag bearer. “It is definitely a privilege and honor to be the one to lead the team and will be a very special moment.” </s> GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) - Shani Davis would've been a fitting choice to carry the American flag into the Olympic opening ceremony, a superb athlete who helped break racial barriers at the Winter Games.

Someone sure dropped the coin on this one.

The U.S. Olympic Committee, an organization that never passes up a chance to shoot itself in the foot, came up with a voting process that could quite plausibly end in a tie.

It did, of course.

And how was the deadlock broken?

With the flip of a coin.

Whether it was heads or tails, we may never know. But the call went in favor of Erin Hamlin, so the luger will have the honor of carrying the stars and stripes into the stadium on Friday night .

"Maybe the process is a tad flawed," said Joey Mantia, one of Davis' teammates on the U.S. speedskating team.

While Hamlin is certainly deserving - she'll be competing in her fourth and final Olympics at Pyeongchang - her resume pales in comparison. Her only Olympic medal is a bronze. The 35-year-old Davis has two golds and a pair of silvers, not to mention a bunch of world championships and the second-most World Cup titles for any male skater in the history of the sport.

Beyond the stellar results, Davis has been a trailblazer.

An African-American in a mostly white sport, he became the first black athlete to win an individual gold medal at the Winter Games with his 1,000-meter triumph in 2006. Four years later, he became the first skater - of any color - to defend his title in that event.

Perhaps it's not surprising that Davis will be joined in Pyeongchang by the first two African-American women to make the U.S. speedskating team - Erin Jackson on the big oval and Maame Biney in short track.

"I don't think there's been an African-American flag bearer, ever, for the Winter Games," Mantia pointed out, quite correctly. "That would've been really cool."

Davis took offense at how it all went down or, at the very least, expressed his frustrations through whoever was running his verified Twitter account on Thursday.

He implied that race played a factor in the decision.

"I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event," the tweet said. "@TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018."

Trouble is, Davis isn't likely to get another chance at carrying the flag.

He would have to keep skating until he's 39 to make it to Beijing. These Olympics - his fifth - are largely viewed as the farewell to a brilliant career, even by his teammates .

"It's sad that Shani wanted it and didn't get it, and this is probably his last Olympics," Mantia said, shrugging off Davis' reference to 2022. "I think he's just saying that in jest."

The flag bearer is selected by a panel of athletes representing each of the eight Winter Olympic federations. After several rounds of balloting, the final round of voting came down to Davis and Hamlin. The USOC, clearly aware a tie was possible, let it be known before the games that a coin flip would be used to decide the winner if that happened.

Perhaps even more puzzling is why Davis wasn't the overwhelming choice among his fellow U.S. athletes.

"On paper, it doesn't make sense for anybody else to do it," Mantia said. "Nobody is more deserving in my opinion."

Even Hamlin laughed off the possibility of carrying the flag when it was presented to her by The Associated Press a couple of months ago.

"That always seems to be a really, really big-name person," she said.

But let's remember: The choice of flag bearer goes beyond mere athletic accomplishment. It's also a popularity contest, and the perception of Davis - framed by a prickly relationship with the U.S. media, his longstanding decision to train separately from the national team, and a much-publicized feud with fellow American Chad Hedrick during the 2006 Games - might have persuaded some voters to go with Hamlin.

That, too, would be a shame.

While Davis has surely rubbed a few people the wrong way, the vast majority of his fellow skaters talk glowingly about his impact on U.S. speedskating and a willingness to share his wealth of knowledge with the next generation.

"He looks after the younger people like me and gives great advice," said 21-year-old Emery Lehman, who will be competing in his second Olympics at Pyeongchang. "He's not selfish at all."

Let's hope race didn't play a factor, but it's impossible to deny that an outspoken black athlete faces a much greater chance of backlash from a largely white fan base, the mostly white media and, yes, even some fellow athletes who are white.

Those issues, a long time in the making, won't be settled anytime soon.

But the USOC can come up with a better process for picking the flag bearer.

This should be a feel-good moment.

It shouldn't come down to the flip of a coin.

Paul Newberry is a sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry@ap.org or at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . His work can be found at https://apnews.com/search/paul%20newberry

AP Sports Writers Tim Reynolds and Beth Harris contributed to this report. </s> Shani Davis wasn’t at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. After pitching a fit over who got to be Team USA’s flag bearer, the speed skater was nowhere in sight.

Was this just a timing issue or a little bit of shade? Shani Davis, 35, wasn’t with the rest of Team USA when they entered the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony on Feb. 9. The speed skater was absent, and considering what he said about who got to be the country’s flag bearer, the timing has raised a few eyebrows. Luger Erin Hamlin, 31, had the honor of carrying the red, white, and blue as the Americans made their grand entrance (to Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” according to Daily Beast).

Was this shade, or just coincidence? It’s possible that Shani wanted to keep his body in peak condition for his upcoming events. Fellow skater Brian Hansen, 31, also skipped the event. “Opening Ceremony is one of my favorite days from the past two Olympic Games I’ve competed in,” Brian told NBC 5’ Katie Kim, “but at the same time, you know, I remember the next day, my legs were just a little stiff, my lower back was a little sore, so, you know, I think I might skip it this time around.” Brian later wrote on Instagram that he was “super excited to watch [Team USA] walk in!” However, Shani has remained silent, so many have said his absence was a boycott!

He got caught up in some drama ahead of the games. The final choice for flag bearer came down to between Shani and Erin, as eight voters – one representing each of the U.S. Olympic committee’s different sports federations involved in the Winter Games – were evenly split. The 4-4 tie was broken with a coin toss. Erin won and Shani was pissed. “I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event. @TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer,” he tweeted.

“No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018 #PyeongChang2018,” he added. The hashtags seem to allude that there was something more with the coin toss, but there was no evidence that the coin was weighted or the toss was altered in any way, according to Huffington Post. Interesting enough, US Speed Skating officials said that Shani wasn’t going to attend the ceremony in the first place, as it would have disrupted his training regiment (though, he did say he reconsidered going to the event after he was nominated as a flag bearer.) So, if he wasn’t going to make the ceremony to begin with, what’s the big deal?

HolllywoodLifers, what do you think about this? Do you think Shani should have gone? </s> From the only triple axel landed by a female American skater at the Olympics to the USA's first men’s single medal in luge at the Games, U.S. athletes made history at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Athletes from 92 nations fiercely competed for a chance to stand on those coveted Olympic podiums in Pyeongchang, South Korea. There were 15 different sporting activities and a total of 102 events.

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Team USA’s Jamie Anderson took home the gold in the 2018 Winter Games after she performed in less-than-perfect weather conditions.

"I was trying to keep the spirits high, like, 'Let's run it,'" the 27-year-old athlete said, according to the Associated Press. "A handful of the girls were like, 'No, it's not safe,' and things like that. It's not like what we're doing is safe, anyhow."

The U.S. women’s cross country team won its first ever medal – and it was gold.

Led by Jessica Diggins and Kikkan Randall, the women’s team pulled off a huge upset and won the Olympic event, beating out the Swedes and Norwegians.

The women’s historic win comes more than 40 years after Bill Koch won the only other Olympic medal in cross-country skiing – silver.

The conditions for the men’s snowboard slopestyle were less than ideal, but 17-year-old Red Gerard made it through the swirling winds to capture the United States’ first gold medal of the 2018 Olympics.

Gerard reportedly overslept before his event because he stayed up too late watching Netflix and had to borrow his roommate’s jacket when he couldn’t find his own. Still, Gerard, the underdog, overcame the odds and made it to the top of the podium with a score of 87.16.

At 17, Chloe Kim became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal during the Winter Games. Kim dominated two amazing runs on the women’s snowboard halfpipe, earning her the first place spot on the medal podium.

Kim’s Olympic dreams were realized with a special family member cheering her on in person – her South Korean grandmother. Kim’s parents emigrated to the U.S. from South Korea, making her Olympic debut in Pyeongchang all the more special.

Mikaela Shiffrin trailed the competition after her first ride down the slope but powered through her final run to take the top time and win the women's giant slalom, her second career Olympic gold medal.



The 22-year-old won her first gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the women’s slalom.

With the most technically precise run ever seen in the sport of halfpipe skiing, David Wise won the gold for the U.S. He scored a 97.2 in the event, beating out his American counterpart.

Four years ago, Wise won gold on the halfpipe in the Sochi Olympics.

Winning his third Olympic gold medal, snowboarder Shaun White made history in the 2018 Games as he scored America’s 100th Winter Games gold medal.

“The Flying Tomato” is the first American male to win gold in three different Winter Games as well; he won his previous two medals in Turin in 2006 and Vancouver in 2010.

White, 31, had a near perfect score of 97.75 on his final run on the halfpipe. He started off strong on his first run, but fell on his second of three attempts.

In a dramatic shootout, the United States women's hockey team defeated rival Canada 3-2 to win their first gold medal since 1998.

American Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson broke the deadlock in the shootout’s sixth round and goalie Maddie Rooney stuffed the last two Canadian shooters to clinch the victory.

John Shuster, Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner and Joe Polo led the underdog Americans to their first-ever gold medal in men’s curling, upsetting Sweden in a 10-7 victory.

Schuster was also a part of the 2006 Turin bronze medal team—the U.S.’s only other medal in the sport.

Sweden, the reigning world champion, finished second and Switzerland placed third.

Her second medal win of the Games, Jamie Anderson clinched a silver medal during the big air event in the second week of the Games. The Team USA snowboarder was in first place until Austria's Anna Gasser's final run.

The silver is Anderson's third Olympic medal.

Coming in behind his American teammate, Alex Ferreira won silver in the Olympic men’s halfpipe event. He had led in the event after the first two runs, but was unable to beat David Wise’s third run score.

Ahead of the Olympics, Ferreira and Wise got matching tattoos of the Pyeongchang Games logo.

Driver Elana Meyers Taylor and brakeman Lauren Gibbs took silver in women's bobsled -- coming in second to Germany's Mariama Jamanka and Lisa Buckwitz.

It was Meyers Taylor's third Olympic medal: she nabbed silver at the 2014 Games in Sochi and bronze at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Jamanka and Buckwitz, her brakeman, finished their four runs in 3 minutes, 22.45 seconds. Meyers Taylor and Gibbs were second in 3:22.52, the 0.07-second margin is the closest between first and second in any Olympic women's bobsled race.

Nick Goepper added a silver medal to the bronze he won four years ago in Sochi. Goepper, now 23, fought depression and went to rehab in the wake of those Games, USA Today reported.

"I came to this Olympics wanting a different color, wanting the gold, but coming away with the silver is so thrilling,” he said while speaking to ABC News. "I couldn't be more stoked."

Norwegian skiier Oystein Braaten and Canadian skiier Alex Beaulieu-Marchand won the gold and bronze medals, respectively.

John-Henry Krueger, 22, took silver in the men’s 1,000-meter short-track speedskating event. His win marks the first U.S. speedskating medal of the Pyeongchang Olympics.

"There were so many thoughts rushing through my head," Krueger said after medaling.

Krueger's win comes four years after he was forced to withdraw from the U.S. Olympic trials because he came down with swine flu.

Canadian snowboarder Sebastien Toutant earned the gold in the men's big air snowboarding event but American Kyle Mack earned the silver medal for his performance. Mack, a Michigan native, joined Toutant and Great Britain's Billy Morgan as the first men to medal in the event, which was debuting for the first time at the games.

Coming in second place, Chris Mazdzer, 29, brought home USA luge’s first men’s single medal in history. He’s also the first non-European athlete to win an Olympic medal in the event.

Mazdzer competed in both the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, placing outside of the top 10.

Americans have been second in doubles luge twice.

Mikaela Shiffrin notched her second medal of the 2018 Games, taking home the silver in the women’s Alpine combined. The 22-year-old finished behind Switzerland’s Michelle Gisin.

Shiffrin captured a gold medal in the giant slalom earlier in the Olympic Games, taking her career total to three.

Despite a dislocated shoulder, Arielle Gold earned the bronze medal for the United States in the women’s snowboard halfpipe competition – joining her teammate Chloe Kim on the podium.

Gold, 21, similarly injured her shoulder ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, causing her to miss the Sochi games.

American siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani, affectionately known as the Shib Sibs, took home the bronze medal after a near-flawless ice dance free skate, racking up 192.59 points. Canada finished with gold and France with silver.

The Shibutanis squeaked out the bronze finish over teammates Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohuse by just five points.

Brita Sigourney entered the Olympics as one of the top-ranked women skiers and was able to edge out teammate Annalisa Drew for the bronze medal in the freestyle halfpipe.

Canada's Cassie Sharpe won the gold, and France's Marie Martinod won the silver.

In what was likely her final Olympic downhill run, Lindsey Vonn took home the bronze medal in women’s downhill skiing. The 33-year-old became the oldest female medalist in Alpine skiing at the Winter Games.

"If you think what's happened over the last eight years and what I've been through to get here, I gave it all and to come away with a medal is a dream come true," Vonn, who missed the 2014 Sochi Games after tearing ligaments in her right knee, said. "You've got to put things into perspective. Of course, I'd have loved a gold medal but, honestly, this is amazing and I'm so proud."

Vonn finished third behind Italy’s Sofia Goggia and Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway, who took home the gold and silver, respectively.

The United States’ figure skating team won the bronze medal – thanks in part to flawless performances from Adam Rippon and Mirai Nagasu.

Nagasu became the first American woman to land a triple axel in the Olympics. Rippon landed both of his triple axels.

Siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani also propelled Team USA to the podium with their free dance. Teammates Alexa Scimeca-Knierim, Chris Knierim, Nathan Chen and Bradie Tennell also medaled following the event.

Heather Bergsma, Brittany Bowe, Mia Manganello and Carlijn Schoutens took bronze for women's team pursuit. It was Team USA's first Olympic medal in the event since it began in 2006.

Bergsma, Bowe and Manganello defeated Canada to clinch the medal in a B final.

Fox News' Nicole Darrah, Ryan Gaydos, Stephen Sorace, Zoe Szathmary and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Luger Erin Hamlin is selected as the Team USA flag bearer after winning a tie-breaking coin toss against speed skater Shani Davis.