Liu won gold in the women’s single skating event, becoming the first American woman to medal since 2006 and the first to win gold since 2002. What makes Liu’s win extra rewarding is not simply that she finished on the top of the podium, but that she did so after she took control of her career when she returned to the sport two years ago.

MILAN (AP) — A last Olympic goal for Hilary Knight, a gold medal-winning overtime one for Megan Keller, and the Americans cemented their reputation as one of the most dominant women’s hockey teams to take the ice.

Mikaela Shiffrin stood atop the Olympic podium, looking almost in disbelief at the gold medal around her neck. The American skiing star hadn’t simply won a slalom race to end her eight-year medal drought at the Winter Games and underline her status as surely the greatest Alpine skier of all time.

U.S. hockey star Hilary Knight became the all-time leading scorer in U.S. women's hockey history at the Olympics in the most dramatic way possible when she scored her 15th career goal late in the gold-medal game of the Milan Cortina Olympics.