Snowboarder Julia Marino is the first medalist for Team USA at the Beijing Olympics.
The 24-year-old from Westport, Conn. landed back-to-back 900s and a frontside double cork 1080 on her second run in Sunday morning's women's slopestyle finals to take silver behind New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski Synnott.
"There's so much emotions," Marino said after the contest. "It's pure excitement and happiness. It was a great day. The weather was perfect, the course was perfect. I couldn't have asked for a better finals. That's how it should be at the Olympics."
The last rider to drop in the contest, Sadowski Synnott landed a massive, technical run to become her country's first Olympic champion in any winter sport.