Americans to Watch at the Winter Games

America’s strongest ice dancing tandem in years will attempt to capitalize on Turin silver.  (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

A five-time medalist, Ohno needs two more to become the most decorated American in Winter Olympics history.  (Photo by FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images)

To take gold, White may have to land his newest trick: the Double McTwist 1260 in which he launches 20 feet above the halfpipe with two flips and three full rotations.  (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

Though his party animal reputation has overshadowed his ability, Miller will try to prove himself in his third Olympic Games.  (Photo by SAMUEL KUBANI/AFP/Getty Images)

The three-time Olympic medalist leads a strong women’s hockey team coming off of back-to-back World Championships.  (Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty Images)

Teter will have to square off with fellow Americans Kelly Clark and Gretchen Bleiler to defend her 2006 halfpipe gold medal.  (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

Davis won gold and silver in Torino and holds the speed record in both the 1000m and 1500m.  (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

Making his third Olympic team, the freestyle aerials skier hopes his signature “Hurricane” can impress the judges in Vancouver.  (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

To overcome the three Germans favored to medal, Hamlin will have to stun the luge world as she did by winning the 2009 women’s world title.  (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

The U.S. bobsledders hope to ride their new Bo-Dyn sled, developed by a former NASCAR driver, to thier first U.S. gold medal since 1948.  (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Having bounced back with a World Championships gold, Lysacek seeks redemption for a disappointing finish in Torino.  (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

The young U.S. men’s hockey team plans to be the next underdog upset story following in the footsteps of Sweden in 2002 and Finland in 2006.  (Photo by Andre Ringuette/NHLI via Getty Images)

A two-time Olympian and 2002 gold medalist, Clark leads a strong U.S. women’s team into the halfpipe.  (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)