The+USA+Olympians

​ **THE USA OLYMPIANS

The USA winter olympians have won more gold medals than any other country in the world! Shaun White, Apolo Ohno, and Lindsay Vonn are in particular very well know US winter Olympians. Shaun White is a snowboarder, Apolo Ohno skates, and Lindsay Vonn is a skiier. These three olympians have been a great addition to the USA teams and have brought them farther than ever. **

**Shaun White is a twenty three year old olympic snowboarder. He has his own snowboard line named the "White Collection". This 2010 Winter Olympic games, he pulled a trick that has never been seen or ever heard of before. It was called: The Triple McTwisty. The crowd roared as he finished with this amazing trick on his second run in the halfpipe competition. Not to mention, he took home the gold. This is only one of the many Shaun White signature moves that he has pulled to make the judges, competitors, and spectators go wild. Along with snowboarding, Shaun White is also an amazing skateboarder. **


 * Apolo Ohno is a seven time olympic medalist who went to the olympic games of 2002, 2006, and 2010. He is a short track speed skater for the US team. In December of 1999, he became the youngest skater to win a world cup event title! On the sid[[image:http://www.apoloantonohno.com/pictures/lrg_20100111061919.jpg width="234" height="234" align="left"]]e, in 2007, he competed and won the show dancing with the stars. A very memorable speed skating competition, Ohno and his teammate, JR, were competing against three koreans. JR and Ohno were behind them, but in the last leg of the race the koreans took eachother out and all fell to the ice and hit the wall. JR and Ohno won first and second place as a result of this. The crowd roared in excitement cheering for Ohno and his teammate. This is only one memorable event that goes down in history for Apolo Ohno. **