Team USA officially released its 232-athlete roster for the Milan Cortina Olympics on Monday, headlined by Lindsey Vonn competing in her fifth Winter Games.
Overall, there are seven athletes making it five Olympic appearances, with bobsledders Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor also reaching the incredible milestone.
Other five-timers are hockey player Hilary Knight, figure skater Evan Bates and snowboarders Faye Thelen and Nick Baumgartner.
Meyers Taylor, meanwhile, leads a group of 33 returning medalists. She has won three silver medals and two bronze while Humphries has taken three gold. Mikaela Shiffrin and Chloe Kim have two golds each.
Shiffrin is perhaps the most famous name heading to Italy, and she is in imperious form having just locked up the slalom season title, also becoming the first skier in the six-decade history of the World Cup with nine season titles in one discipline.
The American star might have to share her record soon, though, as teammate Vonn has eight downhill titles and currently holds a commanding lead in those standings in her second season back from her initial retirement in 2019.
Lindsey Vonn is preparing to compete in her fifth Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina
Mikaela Shiffrin is in fine form as she goes for gold in the colors of Team USA next month
Shiffrin dominated the last slalom before the Milan Cortina Games on Sunday, securing top spot in the discipline standings with two races to spare.
Shiffrin won both runs to beat runner-up Camille Rast, the world champion from Switzerland, by 1.67 seconds. The rest of the field, led by Germany’s Emma Aicher, trailed by more than two seconds.
Shiffrin’s victory came a day after she earned her first giant slalom podium in two years.
The Team USA roster consists of 117 men and 115 women ranging in age from 15 to 54.
Milan is preparing itself for the Games, with a megastore at Piazza Duomo in the city center
The aptly-named freeskier Abby Winterberger is the youngest athlete representing Team USA, while the oldest is curler Rich Ruohonen.
The opening ceremony is set for February 6 in Milan, with some competition beginning February 4, and the games are being shown on NBC in the US.
These will be the most spread-out Olympics in history, with Milan serving as a home base for hockey, figure skating and speedskating and Cortina and a handful of other mountain clusters hosting skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, sliding sports and the new Olympic sport of ski mountaineering.
