Two-time U.S. Olympic bobsled medalist Elana Meyers Taylor pledged to donate her brain for concussion research in hopes of helping other female athletes. 

"I think the hardest thing for me, just being an advocate for women in sports, was knowing that women are more likely to suffer concussions but there’s not much out there on women and concussions," Meyers Taylor said Friday. "How it affects us differently, because obviously there are hormonal differences. We just don’t have the research on it."

Earlier this week, the Boston-based Concussion Legacy Foundation announced the pledge by Meyers Taylor.

Photo gallery: Olympic closing ceremony

After 16 days of sliding, skating, jumping and sweeping, the Pyeongchang Games have come to a close with one last party.

The Winter Olympics concluded Sunday night with a bash at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, a final hurrah for the venue before it's demolished.

Sunday’s Winter Olympics TV schedule. All times Pacific.

11 a.m.: Winter Olympics review of best moments. NBCSN

12:45 p.m.: Repeat broadcast of women’s hockey gold medal match. NBCSN

We are about an hour from the start of the Pyeongchang 2018 Games closing ceremony. It is considerably warmer than the frigid weather at the opening ceremony. 

The crowd has started filling the stadium and it seems a much more festive mood than at the opening. 

We’ll be on the lookout for any Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un impersonators and any evidence of a cyberattack. 

Kirill Kaprizov’s quick shot from the right circle during a power play gave the Olympic Athletes From Russia a 4-3 overtime victory over surprise finalist Germany and the gold medal in the men’s Olympic hockey tournament.

Kaprizov, whose NHL rights are owned by the Minnesota Wild, had a goal and four assists after he ended the game and the tournament nine minutes and 40 seconds into sudden-death play. Teammate Nikita Gusev, whose rights are owned by the Vegas Golden Knights, had two goals and two assists.

The gold medal was the first won by the team known variously as the Olympic Athletes From Russia / Russia / the Unified Team since a 1992 triumph in Albertville, France, as the Unified Team.

Their gold medals were intended for the women’s curling champions.

But that didn’t seem to bother John Shuster and the rest of the U.S. men’s curling team at the Gangneung Curling Center.

After all, minutes earlier they had shocked Sweden 10-7 on Saturday to win the first-ever U.S. gold medal in curling. The history was enough, even if the medals were wrong.

As the Pyeongchang Olympics winds down, the norovirus outbreak that's lurked in the background of the Games is doing the same. 

In the latest numbers released Saturday by the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 321 staff and volunteers have been diagnosed with norovirus, but only two remain quarantined. 

The outbreak of the highly contagious disease was traced to contaminated water used in food preparation at the Horeb Youth Center.

The International Olympic Committee executive board has recommended upholding the ban of Russia from the Pyeongchang Winter Games because of a massive doping scandal.

The full membership will vote on the proposal Sunday ahead of the closing ceremony.

The IOC could readmit the Russian team, continue the ban or hedge with what it has described as a “partial solution.”

John Shuster’s last throw in the eighth end of the Olympic curling final clacked off one Swedish stone and knocked it into another, sending them both skittering out of scoring range.

Five yellow-handled 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. And it effectively clinched gold for Shuster’s erstwhile “rejects,” who rallied from the brink of pool play elimination to claim only the second curling medal ever for the United States.

Saturday’s Winter Olympics TV schedule. All times Pacific.

6:30 a.m.: Curling (men’s gold-medal match, U.S. vs. Sweden). NBCSN

9:30 a.m.: Speedskating (men’s and women’s mass start). NBCSN