all thanks to hannah kearney. so the race is on with team usa slipping to fourth place on the medal board. whatever the medal s standing, the u.s. can claim the game s first gold medal which went to u.s. snowboarder sage kotsenburg. that was the best run of my life, hands down, and i was dropping in and there was really mine, i didn t i try not to put to much pressure other than myself. i ride really bad when i kind of start overthinking things. so i tried having this laid back mellow mentality, and before my run i was like, hey. bill, this is the u.s. team coach, i m like, i might do a 1620 japan. never done before. i nerve even tried it before. he s like, you re in the finals of the olympics s go all-out. i called my brother. might try 1620 japan. jae my brother was like, what? send it, i guess. you re at the olympics. and i dropped in.
this is, coming to the last drop, this is going too well. i got to definitely do the 1620, and i just threw it and half way through the air was like it s coming around perfect, and it ended up coming around just like the 1260 but a full 360 more. but it felt a little of the same feeling. i put my legs down right when i felt it, and it was unreal. i could not believe riding out of it that i larcnded that firs try. a pretty laid back guy, just 20. he tweeted this morning, whoa, how random. made the finals at the olympics. knew gold medalist. my favorite story 69 games and wet just got started. hard to top. tell you that. team usa won another medal in the ladies mogul competition. hannah kearney. a little disappointing. the favorite to bring home the gold, but ended up way bronze. at least she medaled. please. here s a look at the current
craziest thing ever. you know, like i thought about it a little bit, but i never really, i don t know, i didn t really think it would happen. in terms of the other u.s. athletes today, we were lucky enough to be inside to see the women s ice hockey team get their campaign off to a winning start. they beat finland 3-1 and happening right now, the final of the ladies moguls has just started up in the mountains. hannah kearney, hoping to successfully defend her gold from vancouver. okay. and then, you know, tell us about some of the troubles. some of the athletes are having or i guess some of the complaints that are taking place will. yes. there have been a fair few accommodation issues over the last week. we ourselves experienced them. we arrived and didn t have hotel
letting up on massive security surrounding the olympic games. russian force carried out a deadly flring. the source says the suspects were connected to a group linked to militants behind the deadly bombings in volgograd back in december. a spectacular start for team usa in sochi. they just got bronds bronze in the mogul thanks to skier hannah kearney. remember the name, sage kotsenburg claiming the first olympic gold in a game never seen in the olympics before. the run called too dangerous by fellow snowboarder shaun white. i wonder how much shaun will regret having not been in that or that s the way it goes. worked for him and not me. you know who s happy about
olympian. i don t know if anyone s going to top him. i like him a lot. here s a look at the overall medal count. norway at the top with four. netherlands in second with three and there s the united states right behind them with their one gold medal. keep an eye out on american ski e, hannah kearney in the free style moguls later in the afternoon. this was all over social media this morning. more trouble in the sochi bathrooms. this time, american bobsledder johnny quinn got trapped inside one of them, but he took matters into his own hands. he just smashed his way through the door to get out. he was like, oh, i must get out, i have an event. he s a former packers wide receiver. sochi jailbreak. pretty funny. i don t know if i want to mess around, breaking the law there. breaking down a door. you ve seen more pictures of