nichols live from sochi. rach? >> reporter: well, chris, yeah. for every disappointment, right what we love about the olympics. there's a sweetheart story that comes up in its place. these athletes have just seconds in a lot of cases to distill down decades of training. sometimes it doesn't go well, but then sometimes it goes better than expected. that's what happened to the american men this morning. take a look. it was a sweeping one, two, three victory for team usa this morning. american skiers joss christensen, gus kenworthy and nick goepper graping t igoepper the gold, silver and bronze. meanwhile, the snowboarding halfpipe seems to be the epicenter of surprises here in sochi. just a day after shaun white's surprising miss for a three-peat gold, american snowboarder kaitlyn farrington shocked in