IOC president Thomas Bach offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case preventing them from receiving their silver medals.
Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals in slopestyle at the Beijing Olympics.
Salt Lake City's Alex Hall is already taking the sport of freestyle skiing to places we've never seen before. Although he finished just off the podium in the Big Air event in Beijing, he has one more chance to earn a medal in the Men's Freeski Slopestyle.
Dozens of Utah athletes are representing Team USA in Beijing, but we also have a lot of International athletes competing as well. KSL's Alex Cabrero spoke with a Utah man who is helping his home country produce even more Olympians.
Xu Mengtao of China landed a jump with three somersaults to win Olympic gold in women’s aerials. Megan Nick, former Utah Ute, captured bronze for the United States.