Ivanka Trump cheered on American men's curling team as they snagged a historic first ever
Olympic gold medal against Sweden Saturday.
The president's daughter who has been playing America's Olympic cheerleader high-fived spectators
while watching John Shuster and his team win 10-7 against the Swedish word champions.
It is the first gold medal ever for men's curling, and only the second time they took
home a medal in US history.
At one point Ivanka was reading a booklet on curling, perhaps brushing up on the sport
not often televised in the United States.
Ivanka was in good company cheering the men's team on.
The gold medal-winning U.S. women's hockey team and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden were
also in the crowd inside the Gangneung Curling Centre.
The Americans had another notable fan, they received a good luck call from Mr. T before
the match.
The actor Lawrence Tureaud called the team before they went into battle with Sweden to
show his support.
Shuster, who had to lose weight to make the Olympic team, led his band of heroes to the
winner's podium with praise from Mr. T ringing in his ears.
The lack of pace and laid back approach to curling did not put the TV icon off and he
Tweeted earlier in the competition: 'You might not like it but you have to admit it; Curling
is cool fool!'
However, once the team received their golden medals they soon realized they were mistakenly
given medals for 'women's curling.'
At the Olympic press conference, Shuster laughed it off.
'It wasn't a big deal at all, I promise,' Shuster said.
The mix-up had by then been corrected.
Shuster, 35, said after collecting his correct gold medal: 'I think it's a dream.
I'll wake up tomorrow and this might not be real…
It's just fantastic.'
Millions of Americans agreed with him and stayed up through the night to tune into the
drama from Peyongchang which saw Shuster, Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner
and Joe Polo land America's first ever curling gold medal.
Shuster, who works at a Dicks Sporting Goods store in Superior, Wisconsin, had to get in
super-shape for the Korean winter games.
He was left off the US high performance team after the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi,
an omission that made him change his lifestyle for the better.
'They wanted athletes.
It was really just a wake-up call' he revealed.
He lost nearly 30 pounds over the following years, and said last year that the effort
paid off.
Switzerland took home the bronze medal.
Victory was ever so sweet for skipper Shuster who suffered badly on the internet after previous
Olympic failures.
He asked his team mates to stay well away from social media at the Korean Olympic Winter
Games.
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