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Shaun white find olympic greatness one more time. >> front side 12, perfect. >> my fourth olympics, three golds. >> reporter: and where an icon like lindsey von scores another downhill medal, a bronze, in honor of her grandfather who died in november. >> i wanted to win so much because of him, but i still think i made him proud. >> reporter: where history is rewritten. jessi and randall winning team usas first gold medal in cross country skiing. and a down-to-earth group of guys once labeled rej...

Finally, tonight, our american athletes put on quite a show in south korea. team usa finished the winter games fourth in the medal count with norway taking top honors, more than half the overall medals earned by our female athletes, by the way, and nbcs joe friar looks back at the exciting two weeks marked by milestones and surprising firsts. >> reporter: every four years, we turn sheets of ice and snow-topped slopes into stages illumina illuminated by a global spotlight. >> comes around, back-t...

First ever gold. >> does it shine a little brighter when its this historic? >> its so surreal. we all keep waiting to wake up. >> reporter: the moment of the match right here. all those yellow stones in the middle, five huge points. >> its like having like a four touch down lead. >> reporter: john is the skipper. four time olympian who was sidelined after a disappointing performance in sochi in 2014. >> everybody has a choice to write their story and my choice to write my story started four year...

>> reporter: that journey would be one of strength and love. he was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer at the age of 14. it was his his pelvis and lungs. >> one of the things i remember was they told me i might not ever ski again. >> reporter: he underwent intense chemotherapy, radiation and surgeries. after 14 months he was cancer free. he gradually returned to recreational skiing. >> when i came back to skiing, it was more of a personal thing and i needed to show myself that life was st...

Paralympic games. >> whats your physical condition? >> i look pretty norm normal. i have two arms, two legs. i have an amputation in my pelvis where they took out bones. i suffer from this disease that swells my leg. i have limited control of some muscles in there. >> what do we need to know about? >> everybody with a disability has a different struggle and we all support that. yes we want to be there to compete and beat each other. at the end of the day i think our community has more grateful a...

Dreams even though doctors told him he may they ever ski again. >> reporter: thomas walsh threw up in colorado to a ski instructor mom. valle mountain game his playground. >> i lemarned how to ski at two and started racing at age five. >> reporter: he caught our eye when he was just 11. >> i heard you jumped nearly 100 feet in competition. what was that like? >> it was pretty scary. it was the biggest jump i had gone. it felt cool to be on pierp and have that fire come up behind us. >> whats it ...

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Grabbing silver. norway won 38 medals. topping the u.s.s haul of 37 in vancouver. for the u.s. its the quality of wins, not the quantity. who would have guessed curling would have been one of the most exciting of them all? team usa has a couple more chances for medals in the bobsled and cross country. they are long shots in both. as we have seen the last couple of weeks theres also room for more surprises. >> yep. love curling. thanks so much. one more note. what may be the most impressive displ...

As lester holt tells us now, how he got here is a remarkable journey of discovery. >> reporter: he was just a little boy when he was lost and ended up in a korean orphanage in 1981. a year later he was adopted by mike and debby dawson, ski instructors from vail. they named the boy toby. >> this is one of my favorites. this is what toby came in when he got off the plane from korea. >> by age 4, toebs was on skis. he was a natural earning the nickname awesome dawson. >> everyone would egg me on. g...

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