Winter Olympics live updates: Mikaela Shiffrin gets one last chance to medal in team skiing competition:
"I felt like I was going to cry actually," she said."If this is the end, I really just want to enjoy it. If it is the last time I’m in the sled, and if it is my last Olympics run, I wanted to go out the way I wanted to."
When Meyers Taylor and brakeman Sylvia Hoffman reached the bottom of the track at Yanqing Sliding Center, having put down a flawless run that guaranteed a medal, her reaction said it all. Meyers Taylor threw her fist in the air and hopped out of the sled, gave Hoffman a huge hug and celebrated in front of her supporters with Team USA. "It’s been a really long Olympics, a really long season, a long four years," she said.
earlier in the day, which would have forced the International Olympic Committee to hold a public medal ceremony for the team event before Sunday night's closing ceremony. CAS said in a news release that the hearing took place from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in Beijing, by video conference. It announced the decision of its panel of arbitrators but little else. A full report on the decision is expected within the coming week.
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