U. S. spears in 37 medals in a winter to remember

• U. S. spears in 37 medals in a winter to remember

Bode Miller caught a gate and skied off course in his last race in the 2010 Winter Games, the slalom on Saturday."We do not always go well," said U.S. skier, who turned 180 in his Olympic experience in 2006 to win three medals and the hearts and minds here. "But overall these Olympics was amazing how many things went my way."

The same can be said for the U.S. team. Not everything was the way the U.S. - Women's figure skaters, for example, came medal at least for the first time since the 1964 Olympics. But an incredible amount of things going wrong for the U.S. team, the performance of Miller's rehabilitation of the total Nordic Snowboard Halfpipe emphatic send nearly sweep with Evan Lysacek skating gold and winning unit Steven Holcomb four-man sled.