The Beijing Winter Olympics are just a year away. Here’s the outlook for the United States

A sport-by-sport preview, with 2018 and projected 2022 medals in parentheses:

Alpine snowboarding (3/5): If double gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin stays wholesome, the Individuals ought to enhance upon the three they received final time. Shiffrin can take each slaloms and maybe the Tremendous-G, and if she stays injury-free, Breezy Johnson could make the downhill podium.

The boys, who have been blanked in PyeongChang, may have possibilities with Ryan Cochran-Siegle within the pace races and Tommy Ford within the GS.

Biathlon (0/0): Though the snowboarding shooters nonetheless haven’t received an Olympic medal, they’ve made a number of world podiums during the last 4 years, two by Vermont native Susan Dunklee. The Individuals will want a near-perfect day to finish their six-decade drought, however Dunklee, Maine native Clare Egan, and Leif Nordgren all may make the highest 10.

Bobsled (1/2): With Canadian two-time champion Kaillie Humphries now piloting for Uncle Sam, the Individuals may accumulate their first gold in twenty years. Elana Meyers Taylor, who has three medals on her five-ringed résumé, ought to make the rostrum, too.

The once-bemedaled males haven’t been the identical since Steve Holcomb’s dying the yr earlier than the final Video games. If Cody Bascue or Hunter Church cracks the highest 10, it’ll be an achievement.

Cross-country (1/5): The historic gold medal in girls’s workforce dash final time was merely an appetizer. Jessie Diggins and Rosie Brennan are first and third within the World Cup general rankings, and Sophie Caldwell Hamilton and Hailey Swirbul even have made podiums this season.

The boys, who haven’t medaled since 1976, aren’t more likely to this time, however Simi Hamilton may crack the highest 10, as may Scott Patterson and rookie Gus Schumacher, a junior world champion.

Curling (1/0): The boys rocked the home in Korea, taking house an historic gold medal. Although they slipped off the rostrum on the final world match, skip John Shuster nonetheless runs the present and the Individuals ought to contend once more.

The ladies, who have been eighth final time, haven’t improved a lot since. That breakthrough first medal must wait.

Determine skating (2/5): After simply two medals (each bronze) and worst-ever performances by the ladies (9-10-11) and pairs (15) in 2018, prospects are decidedly brighter this time.

Nathan Chen, who’ll bid for his third straight males’s world title in March, and reigning world bronze medalist Vincent Zhou each could make the rostrum, together with dance {couples} Madison Hubbell-Zachary Donahue and Madison Chock-Evan Bates. With an anticipated workforce medal, that may be one of the best US haul since 1956.

The ladies haven’t made the rostrum since 2006 (Sasha Cohen), however teen prodigy Alysia Liu might be within the chase.

Freestyle snowboarding (4/6): It’s telling that the 4 medals in PyeongChang have been thought of an underperformance. Expectations are perennially excessive for the mid-air of us, who ought to accumulate extra this time.

Aaron Blunck needs to be favored in males’s halfpipe, and Nick Goepper and Colby Stevenson each are podium contenders in slopestyle, as is Chris Lillis in aerials.

On the ladies’s aspect, Brita Sigourney figures to medal once more in halfpipe. Jaelin Kauf will problem in moguls, and a quartet of aerialists — Ashley Caldwell, Megan Nick, Winter Vinecki, and Kaila Kuhn — additionally will probably be within the chase.

Ice hockey (1/1): The ladies lastly conquered their northern nemesis in 2018, beating Canada in a shootout for his or her first gold medal in twenty years. They’re nonetheless on prime of the planet, having collected eight of the final 9 world titles going into the April match.

The US males, who haven’t made the Olympic podium since 2010, have been seventh in PyeongChang and seventh once more on the final world championships. With NHLers anticipated to be on board this time, the Yanks may have a greater shot at a medal, however they’ve by no means received gold abroad.

Lengthy-track speedskating (1/3): The day is previous when speedskating was a medal machine for the Individuals, who’ve received a lone bronze on the final two Video games. However they need to be good for a number of this time. Brittany Bowe may declare golds in each the ladies’s 1,000 and 1,500 meters, and Joey Mantia has a superb shot at podium finishes within the males’s 1,500 and mass begin.

Luge (1/0): After particular person podium breakthroughs on the ladies’s (Erin Hamlin) and males’s aspect (Chris Mazdzer) on the final two Video games, the Individuals might be left within the chilly this time. A workforce relay medal is the almost definitely risk, though former world medalist Emily Sweeney and Summer time Britcher each ought to contend, and Mazdzer stunned final time.

Nordic mixed (0/0): The 4 medals in 2010, when the Yanks topped the desk, now appear a mirage. They didn’t come near a medal in Korea and received’t in China. If Taylor Fletcher or Ben Loomis breaks into the highest 20, it’ll be trigger for champagne.

Till the US can produce jumpers once more, the rostrum is a distant dream.

Brief-track speedskating (1/0): The Individuals haven’t missed the Olympic podium since 1998, however it could effectively occur this time. John-Henry Krueger, the only real medalist in PyeongChang, now competes for Hungary, and there’s no one at the moment at his stage. Maame Biney and Kristen Santos have proven some promise, although, as has Aaron Tran.

Skeleton (0/0): After making each podiums at Sochi in 2014, the US sliders flopped final time and haven’t gotten again on observe. Katie Uhlaender, a four-time Olympian, nonetheless is the highest girls’s contender, and Austin Florian is one of the best males’s hope.

Ski leaping (0/0): There have been no US medals since Gershwin wrote “Rhapsody in Blue,” and none are possible subsequent yr. Kevin Bickner, the Yanks’ highest flyer in Korea, is taking the season off however has the products to be among the many prime 20 once more. With Sarah Hendrickson out of the image and Nita Englund taking a breather, Annika Belshaw looms as the highest girls’s hope.

Snowboarding (7/6): Their seven medals (4 gold) have been almost a 3rd of the entire US haul in Korea. Matching that will probably be a problem, however almost all the bemedaled crew are again.

Chloe Kim nonetheless guidelines the ladies’s halfpipe and Jamie Anderson the slope. Kyle Mack and Anderson once more will contend in massive air, Crimson Gerard in males’s slope, and Arielle Gold and Maddie Mastro in girls’s pipe. Faye Gulini and Hagen Kearney are podium threats in snowboardcross, the place Lindsey Jacobellis continues to be within the combine.