White shocker, the snowboarder makes the stunning announcement one day before the competition is set to begin. Well tell you what it is today, wednesday, february 5th, 2014. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today countdown to the olympic winter games with matt lauer, live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer in olympic park in sochi. Matt, good morning to you, im Savannah Guthrie here in studio 1a. And dont make us wait any longer. What are we hearing from shaun white this morning . We have just received a statement from shaun white, hes giving to us first. And heres what he says, after much deliberation with my team, ive made the decision to focus solely on trying to bring home the Third Straight gold medal in halfpipe for team usa. The difficult decision to forego slopestyle is not one i take lightly. As i know how much effort everyone has
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After finally winning their elusive world championship, nobody would have faulted American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates from following the rest of the U.S. figure skating team from the Beijing Olympics into retirement. Chock and Bates helped the U.S. win the team silver medal at the Winter Games, but they have yet to receive a medal of any color — or podium recognition — because of a Russian doping investigation that continues to drag on. The team from Russia won gold, but it could be stripped because of a positive test involving Kamila Valieva taken before the Olympics began.