Comcast Announces Team USA Athlete Partners for Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018
November 20 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
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
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, CAAnderson 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, COKenworthy 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, MNDiggins 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, GAMeyers 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, IDKnight 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, OHGerard 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, NMDespite 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,
NDTwo-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, ORA 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, FLFarmer 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, COA 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,
FLBefore 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
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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.
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networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television
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