Related: Olympians Are Showing Off Their Rooms At The Winter Games, And Simone Biles Has Reacted Mario Hommes/DeFodi Images via Getty Images, Bruce Bennett / Getty Images “We didn't have the family, the friends, no outside distractions. And we really had a lot of time just to get to know each other," she said.

Bobsledder Jasmine Jones expressed honor representing the U.S. at Milan Cortina Olympics, contrasting with criticism from other Team USA athletes like Hunter Hess and Mikaela Shiffrin.

​Henri Jokiharju represented Finland in last year’s 4 Nations Face-Off and is back for more. The 26-year-old defenseman has experience in international play, including winning gold with Finland at the 2019 IIHF World Championship and the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship.

Though Team USA's roster is full of veterans, including five-time Olympian Hilary Knight, the team has been buoyed by new blood throughout the Games. Seattle Torrent forward Hannah Bilka, 24, has scored three goals in an incredible first Winter Games.

Schleper is competing in her final Olympic Games while her son's career is just getting started

MacKinnon was 14 years old when his fellow native of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Sidney Crosby, scored the golden goal to win Canada the Gold Medal at The Winter Olympics in 2010. Now, 16 years later, MacKinnon’s locker is next to Crosby’s in Canada’s dressing room.

Cox described the state as the youngest in the nation, a leader in volunteerism, economic growth, upward mobility and other key factors. Hosting an Olympics for the first time in 2002, he said, has helped bring some 1,200 major sporting events to Utah.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Perched in the snow-covered Italian Alps, Patti Sherman-Kauf fondly remembers how, four years before, in another valley and a world away in Wyoming, she glowed with pride watching a line of headlights approach in the middle of the night.