Miller, Wilson Receive Medals

VANCOUVER and WHISTLER, BC – For the second night in a row, U.S. Olympic Ski Team athletes were awarded medals both at Whistler Medals Plaza and two hours away at BC Place in Vancouver, with bronze medals going to Bryon Wilson (Butte, MT) and Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) on Monday.

"The Team has really made me feel at home," Miller said in Whistler after being honored for his bronze in downhill, the first by a U.S. male skier since Tommy Moe's gold in 1994. "We have a great Team, and this is just the start for us. You'll see me back here, I know that."

While all of Canada watched Alex Bilodeau collect the nation's first-ever Olympic gold on home soil, all of Montana watched Wilson live a dream by wearing moguls bronze mere months after he seemed unlikely to make the trip to Vancouver.

"It was amazing for me," Wilson said. "Coming into this Olympics, I just wanted to come in and have fun. I put down a run and it held up for third place. So I'm really happy.

"(Bilodeau) laid down a really good run. Good for him. He definitely stomped it and he was fast. Through my eyes, he deserved it."

Seth Wescott (Sugarloaf, ME) will be given his gold medal in snowboardcross in Tuesday night's Vancouver ceremony, while Miller will try to make it another double ceremony with a medal in the super combined, beginning with downhill at 10 a.m.

Hannah Kearney (Norwich, VT) and Shannon Bahrke (Tahoe City, CA) were handed gold and bronze, respectively, on Saturday night at BC Place, while Johnny Spillane (Steamboat Springs, CO) got his silver in Whistler.