Weather confounded the US Winter Olympic team one more time on Wednesday as short-track speed skating star Apolo Anton Ohno led teammates.

And Paralympians to the White House. President Barack Obama had planned an outdoor ceremony on the south balcony of the presidential mansion for the US Winter Olympic and Paralympic teams, but was forced to scale down the event and move it inside by pouring rain.

Ohno, the most decorated US winter Olympian in history, joked that rain-drenched Washington was no match for balmy conditions which caused headaches for organizers of the Games in Vancouver and Whistler in February.

"Vancouver was nice. It should have been called a Spring Olympics," Ohno said, saying he met Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and even the First Dog, Bo, during his White House visit.

"For me coming here, for all of us coming here, it is quite the honor," Ohno said. "It never gets old coming to the White House."

Heath Calhoun, an alpine paralympic skier who lost both legs while serving as a US soldier in Iraq, said he was "amazed at the paralympic experience." "To be able to come here was an incredible experience," he added. Ohno was asked after the event whether all athletes, Olympian or not, and from sports like baseball and golf, should face mandatory drug testing.

"My personal opinion is, as athletes, I think we should all be held to the same standards," he said. "It is not even my place to say if it should or shouldn't happen, (but) I think it would make sense to have one unified body testing everyone."