Trump names gold-medal athletes to US delegation to Winter Olympics

 

Hockey-playing twins Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando are among the delegates. So are skaters Apolo Ohno and Evan Lysacek.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced the U.S. delegation to attend the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Olympics, including a handful of gold-medal-winning athletes and a couple of diplomats.

Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance will lead the delegation.

Athletes on the delegation include twins who played on the 2018 U.S. women’s hockey team − Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando − who won the gold medal in South Korea and knocked Canada off its 20-year hold on the top of the Olympics riser.

Diplomats in the delegation include Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the U.S. ambassador to Italy, Tilman Fertitta, a billionaire businessman who owns Landry’s restaurants, the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casinos and the Houston Rockets basketball team. Fertitta wrote a best-selling book titled “Shut Up and Listen!”

The opening ceremony is scheduled for Feb. 6 in Milan, Italy.