USA hauls in 37 medals in a winter to remember
Bode Miller hooked a gate and skied off course in his last race of the 2010 Winter Games, Saturday's slalom.
"It doesn't always go your way," said the U.S. skier, who turned a 180 on his 2006 Olympic experience by winning three medals and hearts and minds here. "But overall this Olympics was amazing how many things went my way."
The same could be said for the U.S. team. Not everything went the USA's way — the women's figure skaters, for example, came away medal-less for the first time since the 1964 Games.
But an amazing amount of things did go well for the U.S. team, from Miller's rehabilitative performance to Nordic combined's emphatic breakthrough to snowboard halfpipe near-sweeps to Evan Lysacek's figure skating gold and Steven Holcomb's victorious drive in four-man bobsled.
All of those things added up to the best Winter Olympic performance by a nation in history. Team USA's 37 medals topped the 36 won by Germany in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, the previous high.
...Although U.S. athletes have led the medal count in the last four Summer Olympics, this is the first time the USA is the Winter Games' winningest team since the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid.
Congratulations, Team USA!
NORDIC COMBINED
INDIVIDUAL NORMAL HILL
Johnny Spillane - SILVER
TEAM LARGE HILL
Todd Lodwick - SILVER
Johnny Spillane - SILVER
Bill Demong - SILVER
Brett Camerota - SILVER
INDIVIDUAL LARGE HILL
Bill Demong - GOLD
Johnny Spillane - SILVER
ALPINE SKIING
MEN'S DOWNHILL
Bode Miller - BRONZE
MENS' SUPER-G
Bode Miller - SILVER
Andrew Weibrecht - BRONZE
MEN'S SUPER-COMBINED
Bode Miller - GOLD
WOMEN'S DOWNHILL
Lindsey Vonn - GOLD
Julia Mancuso - SILVER
WOMEN'S SUPER-G
Lindsey Vonn - BRONZE
WOMEN'S SUPER-COMBINED
Julia Mancuso - SILVER
BOBSLED
FOUR-MAN
Steve Holcomb - GOLD
Steve Meslser - GOLD
Curt Tomasevicz - GOLD
Justin Olsen - GOLD
WOMEN'S
Elana Meyers - BRONZE
Erin Pac - BRONZE
FREESTYLE SKIING
MEN'S MOGULS
Bryon Wilson - BRONZE
MEN'S AERIALS
Jeret Peterson - SILVER
WOMEN'S MOGULS
Hannay Kearney - GOLD
Shannon Bahrke - BRONZE
FIGURE SKATING
MEN'S
Evan Lysacek - GOLD
ICE DANCING
Meryl Davis - SILVER
Charlie White - SILVER
HOCKEY
MEN
Ryan Whitney - SILVER
David Backes - SILVER
Zach Parise - SILVER
Joe Pavelski - SILVER
Jonathan Quick - SILVER
Chris Drury - SILVER
Erik Johnson - SILVER
Jamie Langenbrunner - SILVER
Ryan Miller - SILVER
Dustin Brown - SILVER
Ryan Callahan - SILVER
Tim Gleason - SILVER
Jack Johnson - SILVER
Patrick Kane - SILVER
Ryan Kesler - SILVER
Phil Kessel - SILVER
Ryan Malone - SILVER
Brooks Orpik - SILVER
Brian Rafalski - SILVER
Bobby Ryan - SILVER
Paul Stastny - SILVER
Ryan Suter - SILVER
Tim Thomas - SILVER
WOMEN
Jinelle Zaugg-Siergiej - SILVER
Monique Lamoureux - SILVER
Jocelyne Lamoureux - SILVER
Brianne McLaughlin - SILVER
Kacey Bellamy - SILVER
Jenny Potter - SILVER
Kelli Stack - SILVER
Molly Schaus - SILVER
Lisa Chesson - SILVER
Karen Thatcher - SILVER
Meghan Duggan - SILVER
Jessie Vetter - SILVER
Natalie Darwitz - SILVER
Kerry Weiland - SILVER
Julie Chu - SILVER
Gigi Marvin - SILVER
Erika Lawler - SILVER
Molly Engstrom - SILVER
Caitlin Cahow - SILVER
Angela Ruggiero - SILVER
Hilary Knight - SILVER
SNOWBOARDING
MEN'S HALFPIPE
Shaun White - GOLD
Scotty Lago - BRONZE
MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS
Seth Wescott - GOLD
WOMEN'S HALFPIPE
Hannah Teter - SILVER
Kelly Clark - BRONZE
SPEED SKATING
MEN'S 1000m
Shani Davis - GOLD
Chad Hedrick - BRONZE
MEN'S 1500m
Shani Davis - SILVER
MEN'S TEAM PURSUIT
Jonathan Kuck - SILVER
Brian Hansen - SILVER
Trevor Marsicano - SILVER
Chad Hedrick - SILVER
SHORT TRACK
MEN'S 1000m
Apolo Ohno - BRONZE
MEN'S 1500m
Apolo Ohno - SILVER
J.R. Celski - BRONZE
MEN'S 5000m RELAY
Jordan Malone - BRONZE
J.R. Celski - BRONZE
Travis Jayner - BRONZE
Apolo Ohno - BRONZE
Simon Cho - BRONZE
WOMEN'S 1000m
Katherine Reutter - SILVER
WOMEN'S 3000m RELAY
Allison Baver - BRONZE
Kimberly Derrick - BRONZE
Alyson Dudek - BRONZE
Katherine Reutter - BRONZE
Lana Gehring - BRONZE
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