LIVIGNO, Italy – The United States’ mixed aerials team was looking for redemption.
They achieved that – and then some.
For the second consecutive Olympics, the Americans are the mixed aerials champions, with Chris Lillis, Connor Curran and Kaila Kuhn flying and contorting themselves to the top of the podium.
Lillis is now a back-to-back gold medalist in the event, as he was part of the 2022 Beijing championship trio alongside Ashley Caldwell and Justin Schoenefeld. (Caldwell and Schoenefeld married last year at the top of a mountain in Park City, Utah, where the aerials teams train.) Lillis has 15 World Cup podiums – eight are third-place finishes.
Team USA now has 11 gold medals, the most for the entire team at any Winter Olympics, surpassing the 10 from the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
