PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Say the name Lindsey Vonn, and skiing comes to mind. Mike Eruzione, a miracle. Shaun White, tricks and flips. Michelle Kwan, jumps and grace.
They are faces of winter sport in the United States.
And Erin Hamlin is right there in luge.
Hamlin, the longtime and unquestioned leader of the USA Luge program — not just the women's team — is about to take her final slides. A kid on a wheeled sled when her foray into this niche sport began as a preteen, Hamlin is now a soon-to-be-married 31-year-old with 23 World Cup medals, two world championships, an Olympic bronze medal and one race left in her life.