Britain won the first Olympic mixed skeleton title with Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker taking gold in Milan Cortina.

Double Olympic skeleton champion Matt Weston is one of the most articulate athletes you could ever meet but, even five days on from becoming the only Briton to win two medals at the same Winter Olympics,

The first-ever skeleton mixed team event had a surprising performance from the Americans. Here's how they did. (AP Photo)

Janine Flock finished the job, and a gold medal finally sways from her neck. The Austrian slider who came into these Milan Cortina Games winless in 16 all-time appearances at either the Olympics or the world championships got the biggest win of her long and legendary career on Saturday night.

Skeleton remains Britain’s most successful Winter Olympic discipline, now with 11 medals – three more than any other sport – after Weston and Stoecker’s efforts.

There were plenty of athletes from Pennsylvania and New Jersey competing this month, and more who will be in the upcoming Paralympics.

The name of Laila Edwards will be front and center in communities of color if the United States wins the gold medal in Olympic Women’s Hockey. Edwards, a defender from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is the first Black woman to play for the U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey team.