winter olympics

There will be no women's luge singles medal this time for Remsen's Erin Hamlin.

Jamie Anderson will almost certainly spend more time gazing at her newest Olympic gold medal than watching replays of the slopestyle run she put down to win it.

Remsen's Erin Hamlin is within striking distance of a medal after the first day of competition in the Women's Luge at the Pyeongchang games in South Korea.

The Pyeongchang Olympics have begun with a curling competition featuring a showdown between a pair of U.S. siblings and a Russian husband-and-wife team competing in neutral uniforms with no national insignia.

In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side Friday night under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger, suspicion and bloodshed.

The 31-year-old, who is appearing in her fourth and final Olympics, was selected for the honor by other American athletes of all sports.

Following the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea next year, Erin Hamlin will retire from the sport of Luge. The Remsen native made the announcement in Germany on Sunday after she qualified for her 4th Olympic USA Luge team.

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Olympic medal winner Erin Hamlin returns home Thursday and you can be part of her welcome. Fans are being encourages to crowd the streets of her route home from Verona to Remsen. Erin is scheduled to land in Syracuse at 4:40pm Thursday. You'll need to be at the beginning of the parade route in Verona (Main Street, from Rt. 31 to Rt. 365) right around 5:30.

The 2014 Winter Olympics came to a close on Sunday with the host nation on top of the medal standings. Here's a recap of the final weekend of the Sochi Games: