United States National Thread

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No medals today in the Luge World Champs. Chris Mazdzer finished 10th after a great 2nd run. Tucker West had a great first run, but bad 2nd run. Our best shot is in the women’s event tomorrow. Hopefully, we can grab some medals in the X games today.

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Brittany Bowe won the 1500m WC speed skating event again today!! 

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Megan Nick won the women’s Aerials WC event this morning. Unfortunately, most of the X games events have been postponed to tomorrow.

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No medals this weekend in the Luge World Championships . But we got 4th in the team relay behind Austria, Germany and Latvia.

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Brittany Bowe continues to rack up wins. She won the 1000m WC event this morning.

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Jamie Anderson wins X Games gold in the women’s snowboard big air!

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Kai Owens finished 4th today in the Moguls WC.

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Kailie Humphries is a World Champion!!!!

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 Jocelyne & Monica Lamoureux (Ice Hockey) have announced their retirements. The won 1 gold medal (2018) & 2 silver medals (2010 & 2014) at the Olympics. Also,  Ted Ligety (Alpine Skiing) will retire at the end of the world championships. Ligety is a 5 time WC GS winner (2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 & 2014), 5 time World Champion (2011, 2013 x3 & 2015) & 2 time Olympic Gold medalist (2006 & 2014). What a career for all 3 of them.

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NBC will air the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony LIVE at 7am ET. This is the first time ever that they are airing the opening ceremony live in a morning time slot. They will also have a replay in the normal prime time spot.