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Updated: Feb. 24, 10:47 a.m. | Posted: Feb. 23, 4 a.m. 

 to the Olympics earlier this month. And boy, have they delivered — and 

 but also in buzzworthy moments that have people all across the country talking and rewatching. 

Here's a look at some of the top Minnesota moments from the Pyeongchang Olympics. Which one is your favorite? 

Revenge for U.S. in women's hockey versus Canada

The last time the Americans came out on top against Canada at the Olympics was in 1998, the first time women's hockey was played at the games. In 2014, it seemed as though Team USA would skate away with gold when they built up a 2-0 lead, but Canada rallied to force overtime. 

 (For those who don't, we'd rather not spell it out because it's still a painful memory.)

But that was then and this is now. The U.S., featuring seven Minnesotans and coached by Duluth native Robb Stauber — 

ended Canada's bid for a fifth straight title

 Thursday when they beat our neighbors to the north 3-2. 

https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/966573091441823744

Fun fact: The victory came 38 years to the day after the men's famous "Miracle on Ice" win over the Soviet team in group play at Lake Placid. 

Jessie Diggins ends U.S. cross-country medal drought

Afton's Jessie Diggins propelled the United States to its 

 Wednesday when she edged Sweden in the final 100 meters in the team sprint. 

Diggins and teammate Kikkan Randall ended a 42-year drought for the U.S.; the last time an American cross-country skier took home a medal (silver) was at the Olympics was at the 1976 Innsbruck Games. 

https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/966364759829483521

"Around that final corner I felt like I was uncoiling a spring and letting it go," Diggins said. "Giving it everything I had, digging as deep as I could and putting it all out there. When your team is counting on you, you don't give up ever." 

Lindsey Vonn nabs bronze in her last Olympics

The St. Paul native won gold in downhill and a bronze in the super-G at the 2010 Games but 

Eight years later, she made it back to the Olympics — which she says is her last. 

"It's been a fun ride," she said in an emotional interview after the race on Tuesday. "I wish I could keep going, you know? I have so much fun. I love what I do. My body probably just can't take another four years. But I'm proud to have competed for my country. I'm proud to have given it my all." 

https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/966153596000718848

Vonn is the best female skier in history, just five World Cup race wins away from tying Ingemar Stenmark's all-time record of 86. She's not planning to retire 

Actress Kirstie Alley really stepped in it when 


"Im not trying to be mean but...... Curling is boring," she tweeted. 

Look who's talking, said Team Shuster, the men's curling team.

https://twitter.com/TeamShuster/status/965803300485464064

https://twitter.com/kirstiealley/status/965988851151003649

Speaking of Team Shuster, on the same day the women's hockey team beat Canada for gold, the U.S. men's curling team 


No U.S. curling team had ever beaten Canada before at the Olympics. It was all the more remarkable because the U.S. — once dubbed "Team Reject" — had rallied from the brink of pool play elimination earlier at the Games. 
 

The victory by John Shuster and Co. moved them into the gold-medal match against world championship runner-up Sweden on Saturday.
 

 to win the United States' first curling gold medal. 


Shuster's throw in the eighth end clacked off one Swedish stone and knocked it into another, sending them both skittering out of scoring range. 


Five yellow-handed American rocks were left behind. 


The score, known as a five-ender, is so rare it has only been topped once before in the history of the men's or women's Olympic final. 
 

https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/967322456485777408

 The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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From the women's hockey team getting revenge on Canada to Jessie Diggins' sprint for a historic cross-country gold, Minnesotans have delivered some of the most iconic moments of these Winter Games.

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