WMAL Interview - STEVE KASTENBAUM - 02.21.18

INTERVIEW - STEVE KASTENBAUM - Correspondent in Pyeongchang, South Korea – updated us on the Olympics

•    OLYMPICS NEWS: (Business Insider) -- The US team is falling apart at the Winter Olympics and on pace to have its worst medal performance in 2 decades. Team USA is on pace for its worst performance at the Winter Olympics since the 1998 Games. The US's low medal count at this year's games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, is due both to superstars underperforming and to several athletes finishing just shy of the podium. While the US has no chance of catching Norway at the top of the medal count, there's still time to turn its Olympic performance around before the closing ceremony on Sunday.
•    Lindsey Vonn wins bronze, becomes oldest woman to medal in Alpine skiing (WUSA9) -- Lindsey Vonn went all out in her much anticipated Olympic downhill race and won bronze behind Italy's Sofia Goggia and Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel on Wednesday. Vonn finished in 1:39.69, .47 seconds behind Goggia, who is skiing in her first Olympics and was 11th in both the Super G and giant slalom. Starting 19th in the field of 39 skiers, Mowinckel knocked Vonn from the silver position to bronze, finishing in 1:39.31. In an interview with NBC, Vonn said she was pleased with her race. "I skied a great race today," she said. "Sofia just skied better than I did. I thought I executed the line really well. Maybe I executed too well. I tried to stay on the perfect line. I have no regrets. I’m very happy. "It was tough to contemplate this being my last Olympic downhill race," she added. "I struggled to keep the emotions together. But I’m proud of my performance.” The downhill was considered Vonn’s best and last chance to win a gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She finished sixth in the Super-G Saturday and is not expected to medal Thursday in the combined, her last individual event of the Games.