Team Comcast Roster of Thirteen Team USA Athletes Includes Gold
Medalist Jamie Anderson, Silver Medalist Gus Kenworthy, Gold Medalist
and Purple Heart Recipient Rico Roman, and Cross-Country Skier Jessie
Diggins
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PHILADELPHIA -- (Business Wire)
Comcast, an official
partner of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), today
announced partnerships with thirteen Team USA athletes who hope to
represent their country at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2018.
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Comcast's Team USA athlete partners for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Photo by Danielle Levitt.
“We’re proud to support these incredible athletes for the Olympic and
Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018,” said Matt Lederer, Executive
Director of Partnership Marketing at Comcast. “Behind these incredible
athletes are inspiring stories of hard work, dedication, victory and
defeat. As they head out to compete against the best athletes in the
world, we are honored to bring their friends, family, communities and
all Americans closer to every Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games moment
in new and innovative ways on their TVs and across devices.”
Comcast is proud to serve communities across America, and support some
of the incredible athletes the entire country will be cheering on in
their pursuit of gold. Team Comcast includes the following athletes:
- Jamie
Anderson, U.S. Snowboarder, South Lake Tahoe, CA
Anderson
made history during the Olympic Winter Games 2014, when she won the
gold medal in the first ever women’s Olympic slopestyle event. Since
winning her first Winter X Games medal at the age 15 to become the
youngest medalist in the event’s history, the 27-year-old now has
eleven X Games medals to her name.
- Gus
Kenworthy, U.S. Freestyle Skier, Telluride, CO
Kenworthy won
the silver medal in the men’s freestyle event at the Olympic Winter
Games 2014 after winning three AFP world championships in 2011, 2012,
and 2013. The freestyler made history in 2015 when he became the first
action sports star to come out as openly gay.
- Jessie
Diggins, U.S. Cross-Country Skier, Afton, MN
Diggins has been
on skis her whole life and was part of the first-ever U.S. team to win
a world cup team sprint event, as well as the first-ever U.S. cross
country skier to win a world championship gold medal.
- Elana
Meyers Taylor, U.S. Bobsledder, Douglasville, GA
Meyers
Taylor started bobsledding in 2007, winning the bronze medal at the
Olympic Winter Games 2010 and the silver medal at the Olympic Winter
Games 2014. She made history by becoming the first woman to ever race
in a four-person bobsled event at the world cup.
- Hilary
Knight, U.S. Ice Hockey Player, Sun Valley, ID
Knight is a
two-time U.S. Olympic silver medalist, seven-time world champion and
three-time All American in women’s hockey. Getting her start at age 2,
she has dedicated her life to pursuing excellence in hockey and was
even the first non-goalie female skater to practice with an NHL team
(Anaheim Ducks in 2014).
- Red
Gerard, U.S. Snowboarder, Cleveland, OH
Gerard began
competing in amateur events in 2011 and started gathering podium
finishes just four years later. He placed fourth at the junior world
championships before joining the pro circuit in 2016. The 17-year-old
now takes on new challenges as a member of the U.S. Olympic Rookie
Team.
- Danelle
Umstead, U.S. Alpine Skier, Taos, NM
Despite lifelong
conditions of retinitis pigmentosa and multiple sclerosis, Umstead has
gone on to win bronze medals in the downhill and super-combined at the
Paralympic Winter Games 2010 and another bronze medal in the
Paralympic Winter Games 2014. She was named Athlete of the Year by the
Sports Center for the Disabled in 2010.
- Jocelyne
Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique
Lamoureux, U.S. Ice Hockey Players and Twin Sisters, Grand Forks, ND
Two-time
U.S. Olympians and twin sisters, Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux are
both decorated athletes. Each have a pair of silver medals from the
Olympic Winter Games 2010 and 2014, along with six gold and one silver
medal from the world championship. Both graduated from the University
of North Dakota where they now coach and where Jocelyne has received
her master’s degree in Kinesiology.
- Rico
Roman, U.S. Sled Hockey Player, Portland, OR
A retired Army
Staff Sergeant, a Purple Heart recipient and amputee, Roman was
introduced to sled hockey in February 2008 by Operation Comfort, an
organization that specializes in assisting U.S. service men and women.
Roman has been part of the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team since 2011
and won gold at the Paralympic Winter Games 2014.
- Declan
Farmer, U.S. Sled Hockey Player, Tampa, FL
Farmer is one of
the most decorated sled hockey players in U.S. history. He is tied for
the most career points with 32 and was part of the 2014 U.S.
Paralympic gold medal team. Farmer was born a bilateral amputee.
- Torin
Yater-Wallace, U.S. Free-Style Skier, Aspen, CO
A winner of
four X Games medals by age 18, Yater-Wallace has been named one of
halfpipe’s most talented young skiers. Battling an injury during the
qualifying series in 2014, Yater-Wallace earned a spot on the
inaugural U.S. Olympic halfpipe team.
- Joey
Mantia, U.S. Speedskater, Ocala, FL
Before switching to the
ice, Joey was a 28-Time world champion and 6-Time World Record holder.
On the ice, he is a 9-time world cup medalist and the reigning world
champion in the Mass Start event.
Comcast is an official partner of the United States Olympic Committee
through 2020, which includes the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
PyeongChang 2018 and the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games Tokyo 2020.
Comcast continues to bring Team USA at the Winter Olympics home to
America in new and interesting ways on the TV and across devices.
Leveraging industry-leading X1 technology, Comcast will deliver the most
innovative, comprehensive and technologically advanced Olympic Winter
Games viewing experience ever. Tune into the Winter Olympics opening
ceremonies on February 9 on NBC.
About Comcast
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is a global media and technology
company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal.
Comcast Cable is one of the nation’s largest video, high-speed internet,
and phone providers to residential customers under the XFINITY brand,
and also provides these services to businesses. It also provides
wireless security and automation services to residential customers under
the XFINITY brand. NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment and sports
cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television
production operations, television station groups, Universal Pictures and
Universal Parks and Resorts. Visit www.comcastcorporation.com for
more information.
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