North Dakotans Golden at Olympics

21 Mar 2018


Lamoureux twins play key roles in USA hockey gold medal

North Dakota sisters Jocelyne (Davidson) and Monique (Morando) Lamoureux of Grand Forks are finally golden. Each scored a goal on to lift the United States over Canada 3-2 in a shootout in the gold medal game at the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Jocelyne's goal in the sudden- death shootout - 38 years to the day of the U.S. men's hockey team's Miracle on Ice - snapped Canada's streak of four straight gold medals. Just like the men's miracle, this win, too, snapped a 20-year gold-medal drought by the U.S., which last won gold in 1998.

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