Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue hope to seize Olympic hardware for the primary time this yr.
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Make method for the crimson, white and oooh!
Members of Crew USA had been all enterprise this week as they landed in Beijing, the place they’ll “snow” no mercy on the XXIV Olympic Winter Video games, starting Friday (and airing on NBC and Peacock).
Earlier than their recreation faces had been on, their cumbersome athletic gear got here off — to flaunt their gold-medal bods.
Chloe Kim, 21, snowboarding
This former teenage phenom has loved a meteoric rise to celeb after taking house Olympic gold in 2018 at age 17 – the youngest ladies’s champ within the sport’s historical past. The beautiful LA native then earned extra props from children throughout the county when Mattel made a Barbie Doll in her honor. Kim turned 21 on April 23 and may now correctly toast her anticipated Olympic success — with a glass of bubbly.
Nathan Chen, 22, determine skating
The primary skater to nail 5 quadruple jumps in a single competitors, this Salt Lake Metropolis native has paired technical mastery with boy-band beauty. That killer combo has helped make him a shining star within the skating world. Chen has dominated the game lately, rating No. 1 on the earth from 2018 to 2021. He lands in Beijing ranked No. 3 globally however contemporary off a dominant efficiency earlier this month, profitable a sixth straight US Determine Skating Championship in Nashville.
Lindsey Jacobellis, 36, snowboarding
The Roxbury, Conn. product spent her teen years honing her craft at well-liked Stratton Mountain in Vermont, and has change into some of the adorned athletes in snowboarding historical past. Her resume consists of 10 X Video games gold medals, six world championships and an Olympic silver. She ties an American ladies’s file this yr by showing in her fifth Winter Olympics, the place she's going to compete in snowboard cross. Jacobellis boasts a determine for all seasons, wanting radiant in naked midriff amid rocky desert outcrop for Girls Health magazine.
Shaun White, 35, snowboarding
Legend. White introduced on Jan. 13 that the Beijing video games will probably be his fifth and closing Olympiad. His retirement comes after 20 years of jaw-dropping dexterity within the halfpipe that made the flame-haired San Diego native an Olympic champ, the game’s first world celeb and a pop-culture icon. He received gold on the 2006, 2010 and 2018 Olympics, together with 13 X Video games snowboarding gold medals courting again to 2002. Tony Hawk’s protege has additionally received two gold medals in X Video games skateboarding. Now the oldest snowboarder in Olympic historical past, White has settled into his celeb and maturity after a tumultuous previous that included expenses of sexual harassment. He lives with girlfriend former “Vampire Diaries” star Nina Dobrev, who introduced their relationship on Instagram in Might 2020 by slicing the Flying Tomato’s well-known ginger locks.
Mikaela Shiffrin, 26, snowboarding
Born to ski in Vail, Colo., Shiffrin is among the most profitable Alpine athletes in historical past. She captured her first Olympic gold at Sochi in 2014 at age 18, the youngest slalom champ in historical past. Shiffrin received slalom gold once more in 2018 and has dominated the World Cup circuit with an astonishing 73 profession victories. She enters the Olympics almost two years to the day after her ski-enthusiast father Dr. Jeffrey Shiffrin died all of the sudden from an unintentional head harm on Feb. 2, 2020.
Madison Chock, 29, and Evan Bates, 32, ice dancing
The glamorous pair has been a tandem on the ice since 2011 and a pair off the ice since 2017. Chock, born in Redondo Seaside, Calif., and Bates, who hails from Ann Arbor, Mich., are eyeing their first waltz up the Olympic podium after competing collectively within the 2014 and 2018 video games. The couple carries massive expectations into Beijing after profitable their third ice dancing title on the US Determine Skating Championships. For Bates, that is his fourth Olympiad, a file for an American determine skater. He competed with former associate Emily Samuelson within the 2010 winter video games in Vancouver.
Aja Evans, 33, bobsledding
The self-proclaimed “bobsled bombshell” stands 5-foot-10 and has blazed a path from the South Facet of Chicago to the highest of American sports activities. She’s already tasted Olympic success as soon as, profitable a bronze in Sochi in 2014. Dad Fred is a legend in collegiate swimming, as the game’s first black nationwide champion, whereas brother Fred loved an eight-year NFL profession. Evans was hospitalized briefly final month and required 30 stitches after struggling facial lacerations throughout a coaching accident in Germany.
Zachary Donohue, 31, ice dancing
Zach and pairs associate Madison Hubbell are three-time US champions who hope to seize Olympic hardware for the primary time this yr after barely lacking the rostrum with a fourth-place end within the 2018 video games in Pyeongchang. Beijing is the tandem’s final shot at worldwide glory: the companions lately introduced that they’re retiring their aggressive partnership after the Olympics. Dashing Donohue, a Connecticut native, has a historical past of romancing a few of skating’s most lovely ladies. He and associate Hubbell had been as soon as a pair, he reportedly dated Spanish ice dancer Olivia Good in the course of the 2018 Olympics, and he has been linked since final yr to Australian determine skater Chantelle Kerry.
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