Team USA takes home the gold!
The United States women's ice hockey team beat Canada 3-2 in the 2018 Olympics championship matchup in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Wednesday. A goal by Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson in the sixth round of the sudden death overtime shootout, which lasted 20 minutes, gave the U.S. its victory.
This was the first gold medal for the U.S. since 1998, when the first women's hockey tournament in Olympic history was played in Nagano, Japan.
.@TeamUSA IS GOLDEN!
The @usahockey women take down rival Canada for their first gold since 1998! #WinterOlympics#BestOfUShttps://t.co/wS6s9ulmoApic.twitter.com/o4gJr8g7sV
.@maddie_rooney35 is a @TeamUSA hero and everyone wants a hug! pic.twitter.com/OTh9RayJGm
Equally as cool? This win came on the anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, when the U.S. men's hockey team beat the Soviet Union during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
The United States and Canada have been extremely dominant since women's hockey became part of the Olympics. The two teams are the only ones to have earned gold medals in the sport, with Canada winning gold in the last four, while the Americans took home silver in all but the 2006 matchup.
Celebs like Olivia Munn, Elizabeth Banks and Leslie Jones, as well as several of the U.S. team's fellow Olympians like the Shibutani siblings, were plenty excited to bask in the win alongside the elated U.S. athletes.
CONGRATS to the US Women’s Hockey team for bringing home the GOLD for the first time in 20 years!!!!! You make us all so proud 🥇🇺🇸❤️💙🙌👊👏👏👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/L9LmdLGEIG
Congrats @TeamUSA#womenshockey way to give us heart palpitations just before bed woot woot @usahockey#GOLD#Olympics
Y’all don’t understand how much this is incredible!! Wow @usahockey@NBCOlympics@Olympicspic.twitter.com/XEyhSL0HoV
My pal @hodakotb celebrating @teamusa@teamusa@ushockey#women#shootout win over @teamcanada with team #familiespic.twitter.com/WGRMFHf2Um
So so so ridiculously overjoyed for them!!! They’re such good friends, amazing teammates, and great ambassadors for their sport, and @TeamUSA.
THEY DID IT!!!!!!!@AlexShibutani is SOOOOO HAPPY!!@usahockey@TeamUSA GOLD!!!!!#BestOfUS#WinterOlympicspic.twitter.com/K4OQ5yhBgn
What a TEAM!! Grit and heart @usahockey and @TeamUSA ! Thank you!! Pure GOLD!
Sorry, purists. Hockey shootouts are plenty exciting. Perfect ending! #USAvsCAN
The medal ceremony had just as many people talking on Twitter as the win itself did, as one Canadian player took her silver medal off just seconds after it was placed around her neck.
Medal was hardly around her neck before she took it off.#TeamCanada#TeamUSApic.twitter.com/H4C4ZajcuT
Did anyone else see that one canadian take off her silver medal right after she recieved it? #USAvsCAN
Did that Canadian player really just rip her silver medal off her neck? Wow stay classy #USAvsCAN
Congratulations to the U.S. women's team on their big win!
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