Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch** Main article: Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics Discipline Women's events Ladies' 30 km Mass Start Free Event Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics Men's events The medalists in skiathlon The medalists in 50 km freestyle. All four Russian gold medalists were later found guilty of doping. Both Russian gold medalists were disqualified in 2017. Mixed events The medalists in biathlon mixed Eventīobsleigh The medalists in bobsleigh two-man. Russian team was later stripped of its medal. Women's events The medalists in women's individual Biathlon women relay medalists. Main article: Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics Men's events Event Eventīiathlon The medalists in men's biathlon sprint Two gold medals, one to Slovenia and one to Switzerland, were awarded for a first-place tie in the women's downhill event. Women's events The medalists in women's downhill The medalists in ladies' super combined Two bronze medals, one to Canada and one to United States, were awarded for a third-place tie in the men's super-G event. biathlon team was officially announced on January 12, 2014.Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics Men's events The medalists in men's downhill The medalists in men's super combined Main article: Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympicsīased on their performance at the 20 Biathlon World Championships, the United States qualified five men and five women. alpine skiing team was officially announced on January 27, 2014. The United States qualified a total quota of 20 athletes in alpine skiing. Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics Athletes who participated in preliminary rounds but not the final round. United States women's national ice hockey team In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded. Medalists įurther information: 2014 Winter Olympics medal table Medals by sport The United States team entering during the opening ceremony. Some results were later amended due to the Russian doping scandal. Four-time ice hockey Olympian Julie Chu was the flag bearer during the closing ceremonies. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden did not attend the 2014 Winter Olympics, reportedly "as a response to the Russian government’s crackdown on LGBT rights and other human rights violations." American nordic combined skier Todd Lodwick was the flag bearer of Team USA for the Parade of Nations during the opening ceremony. Olympic team competed in Russia, as the United States and 65 other countries boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The 2014 Games marked the first time a U.S. Fellow alpine skier Bode Miller, competing in his fifth winter games, became the oldest alpine medalist at age 36, winning bronze in the super-G. Among returning Olympians, Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the first American gold in ice dancing, and Ted Ligety won gold in giant slalom, becoming the first American man to win two Olympic golds in alpine skiing. Eighteen-year-old alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in the slalom in her Olympic debut. In freestyle skiing, Joss Christensen won the inaugural men's slopestyle, David Wise won men's halfpipe, and Maddie Bowman won women's halfpipe. In snowboarding, Sage Kotsenburg and Jamie Anderson won gold in the inaugural slopestyle events, and Kaitlyn Farrington won the women's halfpipe. Of the nine gold medals won by Team USA, seven were won by first-time Olympians. won four medals in bobsled events, two in skeleton, and one in luge. In skeleton, Noelle Pikus-Pace and Matthew Antoine won silver and bronze respectively, the first U.S. medal (a silver) in two-man bobsled in 62 years, while Erin Hamlin earned the first singles luge medal ever for the United States (also bronze). Steven Holcomb and Steven Langton won the first U.S. Ĭonversely, at the Sanki Sliding Center, the United States won more medals (seven) than any other nation. won no medals in the men's or women's singles events for the first time since 1936. Although the delegation ranked second in overall medals with 28, it ranked out of the top three in gold medals (with a total of nine) for the first time since Nagano in 1998 when it placed 6th in overall medals and 5th in gold medals. Team USA consisted of 222 athletes competing in all 15 sports.Īfter winning an Olympic record 37 medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the United States had a somewhat disappointing performance during these games. The United States competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from February 7 to 23, 2014.
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