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**media type="custom" key="5606505"media type="custom" key="5606411"media type="custom" key="5606381"WHAT** did he do before the event that showed his confidence that he would win?
 * WHERE** was this event raced?
 * WHEN** did he previously win a gold medal?
 * WHY** did some wonder if he could successfully defend his gold this year? **WHY** do you think he triumphed?

The sports the USA participate in are speed skating, snowboarding, ski jumping, skeleton, short track speed sakting, nordic combined, luge, ice hockey, freestyle skiing, figure skating, curling, cross-country skiing, bobsleigh, biathlon and alpine skiing. The sports our country does well in are Alpine skiing, snowboarding, nordic combined, speed skating, freestyle skiing, figure skating, bobsled, short track speed skating, ice hockey.The USA's most successful year was 2010. The most successful athletes are Hannah Kearney who did freestyle skiing, Seth Wescott who did snowboarding, Shani Davis who did Speed skating, Lindsey Vonn who did Alpine skating, Shaun White who did snowboarding, Evan Lysacek who did figure skating, Bode Miller who did Alpine skiing, Bill Demong who did Nordic combined, Steven Holcomb, Steve Mesler, Curtis Tomasevicz, and Justin Olsen who all did Bobsled. Some high points USA got in 2006 were 9 gold, 9 silver,7 bronze, the total was 25 medals. Seth Westcott is snowboader for USA.