United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics also won silver in the team event. Short track speed skater Apolo Ohno surpassed Bonnie Blair as the most decorated American Winter Olympic athlete in history with a total of eight medals in his Olympic career. Ohno gave the US relay team the final push for the bronze in the 5000 meter relay, and earned silver and bronze medals in the 1500 and 1000 meter individual events respectively. Women's 1000 meter silver medalist Katherine Reutter broke a streak dating back to 1994 in which no American woman had medaled in an individual short track event. Long track speed skater Shani
Zhou Yang (speed skater) Olympian with 3 gold medals from previous Olympics, after Yang Yang and Wang Meng who have retired from the sport. Zhou Yang started skating at age eight. A speed skating coach noticed that she had potential in the sport. In the 2008 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, Zhou Yang won the gold medal in the women's 3000 meter super final. Zhou was also ranked second overall, following another Chinese skater Wang Meng. Zhou Yang (speed skater) Zhou Yang (; ; born 9 June 1991) is a female Chinese short track speed skater. She won the gold medal in the