Ping Huang
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It's the most of any country, ahead of Canada and host country Italy.
It's a brand new set of buildings at an old railway yard in Porta Romana, an artsy neighborhood in southeast Milan.
This Olympic Village will house figure skaters, hockey players, and speed skaters.
There are athletes' rooms, lounges, a substantial gym...
and a 24-7 cafeteria where athletes ignored the steamed cauliflower and spinach and went straight for the pasta.
Daniel Smith runs the Team USA house for the U.S.
Olympic and Paralympic Committee in Milan.
After the games, the complex will be converted into student housing.
athletes are headed to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
They range in age from 15-year-old Abby Winterberger, a free skier from California, to Rich Ruinen, a 54-year-old curler from Minnesota.
Two-time gold medalist Michaela Schifrin is back, representing the U.S.
in alpine skiing for her fourth Olympics.
Other athletes are returning to compete in snowboarding, bobsledding, ice hockey and figure skating.
A new sport this year is ski mountaineering.
The Winter Olympics kicks off with the opening ceremony on February 6th and runs through February 22nd.
Generally, it's just a really cool time for alpine ski racing, and our team is bringing big energy into Milan Cortina.