LILLEHAMMER, Norway (Feb. 12, 2016) – Chloe Kim (Carlsbad, CA) was selected as Team USA’s flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Youth Olympic Winter Games, which runs from Feb. 12-21 in Lillehammer, Norway.

SEEFELD, Austria (Jan. 17) - A pair of 17-year-old U.S. cross country skiers notched a pair of top 16 finishes Tuesday in the classic distance races at the Winter Youth Olympic Games. Middlebury College skier Heather Mooney (Peru, VT) was 13th in the 5k classic with Stratton Mountain School athlete Paddy Caldwell (Lyme Center, NH) 16th in Seefeld, site of Bill Koch's historic Olympic silver in 1976. Freestyle sprints are set for Thursday with mixed cross country and biathlon relay Friday.

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VALMALENCO, ITALY ( March 21) – Jonathan Lillis (Rochester, NY) and Kiley McKinnon (Madison, CT) took silver and bronze Wednesday at the FIS Freestyle Junior World Championships. The U.S. took its top aerial and mogul athletes to the event that is the largest competition of the season for athletes under 20.

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One of the most explosive athletes on the FIS Freestyle aerials World Cup tour, the USA's Ashley Caldwell is the type of competitor flipping triple when double would probably do, always striving to better herself and push her sport.

MERIBEL, France (March 21, 2015)—On the first day of tech events in Meribel, the crowd was alive—excited to cheer on hometown heroes and the big names alike. Marcel Hirscher came into the race with the giant slalom globe already secured, which left the rest of the men looking for the final World Cup win of the season. 20-year-old Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway took his second World Cup win in a row, while Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) was sixth.

PARK CITY, UT (Jan. 18) – Freeskiing champion Jen Hudak, a six times X Games medalist and the face of her sport of halfpipe skiing since it burst onto the Olympic stage, is on the sidelines this weekend with a knee injury that will keep her from realizing her Olympic dream. Hudak, who had recently staged a dramatic comeback following a knee injury in 2012, suffered a new knee injury training for the first Olympic qualifier at Breckenridge.

INNSBRUCK, Austria (Jan. 15) – The 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Games saw three medals for the USA including two for snowboarding. Ben Ferguson (Bend, OR) of the U.S. Snowboarding Rookie Team, took the gold in halfpipe snowboarding with a huge Double Crippler during his run. Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club's Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, CO) received the silver medal for her impressive run which included a Cab 720. The Youth Olympic Games is an exciting new event for young athletes to take their talent to the world's stage.

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VAIL, CO (Nov. 2) – Olympic gold medalist and three-time Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) grabbed first tracks on Vail's Golden Peak Wednesday with a group of young racers from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail. Two lanes over were World Champions Bode Miller (Franconia, NH), Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) and the full men's technical team.