The United States beat Germany 3-2 in its final preliminary round game to earn the top seed in the knockout round of men's hockey at the Beijing Olympics.
Shaun White’s brilliant and transcendent Olympic career ended with a fall on his final run down the halfpipe, a heartfelt ovation from the crowd and then a tearful farewell to a sport he helped define.
The U.S. ski team says Mikaela Shiffrin will enter the super-G at the Beijing Games. She has never raced that event at an Olympics but she did win it at the 2019 world championships.
A trio of Americans won gold in the Olympics’ first mixed team aerials event to give the United States its first medals in the freestyle skiing discipline in a dozen years.
Lindsey Jacobellis captured the United States' first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics. Jacobellis was competing in her fifth Olympics and captured the first gold.