It’s not uncommon for top athletes to receive fan mail, but the American slopestyle snowboard gold medalist may have gotten the most adorable letter of all.
Kikkan Randall of the U.S. and Marit Bjorgen of Norway are part of the group that has advanced out of this morning’s qualifying round and will look to keep moving forward into a potential battle for gold.
Randall hopes to make history as the first American, man or woman, to become an Olympic gold medalist in cross-country. But she’ll have to dethrone Bjorgen, the defending Olympic champion in this discipline.
The first-ever Olympic team figure skating competition may have been decided yesterday, but today in Sochi, the Russians, Canadians, and Americans officially received their medals.
The U.S. has taken home a men’s moguls medal in every Winter Olympics since the 1998 Nagano Games. Can Patrick Deneen and Bradley Wilson keep that streak alive?
After being stymied by Finland goalie Noora Raty for two and a half periods, Team Canada rattled off three goals in a span of roughly seven minutes to pull away late.
Michel Mulder earned the men’s 500m gold medal by one one-hundredth of a second over teammate Jan Smeekens, with Michel’s twin brother, Ronald, claiming the bronze (+.15 of a second).
Unable to decide upon the helmet she would take into the skeleton competition at the Sochi Olympics, U.S. competitor Katie Uhlaender gave the responsibility to the Twittersphere.
