PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Erin Hamlin, a four-time Olympian luger, will serve as Team USA’s flag bearer at Friday’s opening ceremony for the Winter Games.
Hamlin, a two-time world champion and bronze medalist at the 2014 Sochi games, is the fourth U.S. luger to be tapped with the honor.
Hamlin’s 2014 medal showing broke a 34-year stranglehold of the podium held by German and Austrian women. Her star turn at the Sochi games was a surprise as she had not finished on the world cup podium for the two years leading up to the Sochi Games.
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Team USA members vote on who they want to serve as the flag bearer.