Athletes from the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games speak to the media outside the White House, before an East Room event honoring them hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, Washington, D.C, April 3, 2014. From left to right, Julie Chu of Fairfield, Conn, who won silver with the women's ice hockey team; Sage Kostenberg of Park City, Utah, who won a gold medal in slopestyle snowboarding; Jon Lujan of Littleton, Colo., Paralympics Alpine Skiing, former Marine Corps sergeant and 2014 Winter Paralympic Games opening ceremony Team USA flag bearer; Mikaela Shiffrin, from Eagle-Vail, Colo., who won gold in Women’s Slalom in Sochi; Stephanie Jallen of Kingston, Pa., Paralympics Women's Alpine Skiing, Super-G, bronze medalist. (Army News Service photo by Lisa Ferdinando)