Katie Hollander She will compete in the fifth and final Olympic Games in Skeleton to claim the top spot as the best American woman of the season.
Athletes compete for the first time Kelly Curtis in a Andrew Placer On the youngest US Olympic skeleton team since the sport returned to the Olympic program in 2002.
Olander, the 37-year-old with the best Olympic finish of fourth, will equal the record for an American woman’s appearance at the Winter Olympics. She would probably be the oldest Olympian on the entire US team in Beijing, if she wasn’t Lulu Jones the new Lauren Gibbs Makes them a sled.
She became the oldest skeleton runner in the US Olympics, breaking her own record Leah Ann Petersley, the 2002 silver medalist in the first appearance of a female skeleton.
On the snow Lindsey Jacobless and the virgin John Schuster He previously qualified for the fifth Olympic Games. pure white He will also likely be selected for his fifth Olympic team.
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Uhlaender, the 2012 world champion and two-time World Cup champion, did not compete in the season after finishing 13th at the 2018 Olympics. She made a comeback in 2019-20, competing in low-level races ahead of her first World Cup in nearly three years in January 2021.
Her best result in 11 World Cup races in the past 13 months: a pair of fives.
Favorite Olympic medals include the World Cup season champion Kimberly Boss Netherlands and Austria Janine Fluke, German Tina Hermann and Russian Yelena Nikitina. In a twist on Friday, the 31-year-old is an Australian Jackie Narracott He defeated them all at the last World Cup before the Olympics. Narracott’s best World Cup finish was in seventh place.
Great Britain Lizzie Yarnold, who won the last two Olympic titles, retired in 2018.
In 2014, Olander finished fourth at the Olympics, 0.04 seconds ahead of Nikitina, who took the bronze. Nikitina was later stripped of her medal in 2017 as part of Russia’s doping program at the Sochi Games, but two months later by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, due to insufficient evidence.
Olender plans to retire after Beijing and earn a bachelor’s degree.
Curtis, a 32-year-old former heptathlon runner who made his bobsleigh debut, took second place in the American rankings, beating out Megan Henry The last place for women in the Olympics.
Placer, the 32-year-old former decathlon champion at the University of Idaho, was the highest-ranked American man this season – 28th in the world – although he was overtaken in the World Cup final to start the campaign for the most successful. . John Daly in a Austin Florian. It’s the first time the United States doesn’t have many male skeletal slides in the Olympics.
Latvia Martins cycle Won the eleventh World Cup title. At 37, he is still chasing his first Olympic gold after silver medals in 2010 and 2014 and fourth in 2018. A skater from the host country has won the last three golds, bolstered by more experience on the Olympic track.
top slider in china, Jing WenqiangHe is 12th in the standings this season (with one triple win) and one place without a 2018 Olympic champion Yoon Seungbin.
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