Out Olympic Speed Skater Brittany Bowe & US Speed Skating Women Win Bronze Medal In Team Event

Out U.S. Olympian Brittany Bowe, our top female speed skater at the PyeongChang Olympics, had had enough with the close calls.

Two fifth place finishes and one fourth place showing that was only 2 hundredths of a second from podium position was not going to be the end of Bowe's Olympic journey.

But - Bowe and her teammates Heather Bergsma, Mia Manganello and Carlijn Schoutens from the United States showed up at their final race determined to beat Canada for the bronze medal

And that's just what they did edging out the Canadians by 0.45 of a second.

The team had lost to the Netherlands in the semifinal earlier in the day.

The final standings for the event:

Japan - Gold medal
Netherlands - Silver medal
United States - Bronze medal

Congrats ladies!