This year, the US will send to win the sports championship 242 athletes of them 107 women and 135 men who will compete in 15 disciplines in all seven sports. As part of the national team, there are already winners of the last years of the competition, which train new participants.

In particular, she is a snowboarder Kelly Clark (Olympic Games Champion 2002), skier Kikkan Randall and skater Shani Davis (Olympic Champion of the Games of 2006 and 2010).

Recall that Russia is suspended from the Winter Olympics, but sends to her 169 athletes. Last week, the IOC suspended 111 other athletes from participating in the Games, and another 50 doctors and coaches were not invited to the Games.

As reported in "URA-Inform", earlier Ukraine refused from one license to participate in the Olympics-2018.