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Team Visa Pyeongchang – Global Roster F A C T S H E E T Team Visa PyeongChang – Global Roster USA Jamie Anderson Snowboard – Slopestyle & Big Air Meryl Davis Figure Skating – Ice Dance (Retired) Sarah Hendrickson Ski Jumping Gus Kenworthy Freeskiing –Slopestyle & Halfpipe Chloe Kim Snowboard – Halfpipe Hilary Knight Ice Hockey Oksana Masters Para cross-country skiing & Para biathlon Angela Ruggiero Ice Hockey (Retired) Mikaela Shiffrin Alpine Skiing Maggie Voisin Freeskiing – Slopestyle Charlie White Figure Skating – Ice Dance (Retired) David Wise Freeskiing – Halfpipe Belarus Darya Domracheva Biathlon Canada Travis Gerrits Freestyle Skiing – Aerials Charles Hamelin Short Track Speed Skating Mac Marcoux Para alpine skiing Mark McMorris Snowboard – Slopestyle & Big Air Scott Moir Figure Skating – Ice Dance Tessa Virtue Figure Skating – Ice Dance Spencer O’Brien Snowboard – Slopestyle & Big Air Chile Dominique Ohaco Freeskiing – Slopestyle 1 China Beibei Chu Para cross-country skiing Han Cong Figure Skating – Pairs Sui Wenjing Figure Skating – Pairs Han Tianyu Short Track Speed Skating Cai Xuetong Snowboard – Halfpipe Zhang Yiwei Snowboard – Halfpipe Czech Republic Ester Ledecka Alpine Skiing & Snowboard – Parallel Slalom Finland Roope Tonteri Snowboard – Slopestyle & Big Air France Alexis Pinturault Alpine Skiing Great Britain Elise Christie Short Track Speed Skating Billy Morgan Snowboard – Slopestyle & Big Air Italy Peter Fill Alpine Skiing Japan Noriaki Kasai Ski Jumping Momoka Muraoka Para alpine skiing Sara Takanashi Ski Jumping Korea Jung, Seung-Hwan Para ice hockey Lee, Sang-Hwa Speed Skating Lee, Sang-Ho Snowboard – Parallel Slalom Lim, Hyo-Jun Short Track Speed Skating Park, Caroline Ice Hockey Park, Seung-Hi Speed Skating Nigeria Seun Adigun Bobsled 2 Akuoma Omeoga Bobsled Ngozi Onwumere Bobsled Norway Marcus Kleveland Snowboard – Slopestyle & Big Air Philippines Michael Christian Martinez Figure Skating Poland Kamil Stoch Ski Jumping Russia Maxim Trankov Figure Skating – Pairs Tatiana Volosozhar Figure Skating – Pairs Sweden Stina Nilsson Cross-Country Skiing Switzerland Patrick Burgener Snowboard – Halfpipe Uganda Brolin Mawejje Snowboard – Slopestyle & Big Air Ukraine Olena Pidhrushna Biathlon Norway 3 .
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