The night he won gold at the Winter Olympics in February, Tyler George slept with the medal next to his pillow. He wanted to make sure it would still be there in the morning.
Nearly a year later, he still has barely let the medal out of sight, in large part because he has not been allowed to let it out of sight.
“I know that if I show up without that thing, they’ll send me home,” George said.
This is what happens when you are part of the first American men’s curling team to win an Olympic gold medal.
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