Ashley Farquharson, Chris Mazdzer, Zachary Di Gregorio and Sean Hollander, of the United States, stand in the finish area after the luge team relay at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
On the final day of luge racing at the Yanqing National Sliding Center in Beijing, China, the United States foursome of Ashley Farquharson and Chris Mazdzer in singles and doubles team of Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander capped off their Olympic experiences with a seventh-place performance in the team relay on Thursday.
For Mazdzer, it was his fourth and final trip to the Games, while his teammates qualified this year for the first time.
“I think that this being our first Olympics and how we performed this last week is amazing,” Farquharson said, who also finished 12th in the singles race. “We can only go up from here and it really speaks to the future of all our careers.”
DiGregorio and Hollander were 11th in the doubles race one day earlier, an improvement of six places from their World Cup best.
“It feels so great to be able to call yourself an Olympian,” Hollander said in a statement. “You feel more confident on the sled, definitely.”
“To cap that off, that was me and Sean’s first relay as a team,” DiGregorio said. “It’s been our first Olympics. It’s a lot of firsts, and it’s great to get that under our belt at a young age. And now to just push that, look four years…
