2026 Winter Olympics Day 4 recap: U.S. medals in skiing, curling and luge

Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid won his first individual Olympic medal on Tuesday, then immediately confessed to cheating — but not in the 20-kilometer individual race.

Lægreid used a post-race interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK to admit he had been unfaithful to his girlfriend.

MILAN — Maxim Naumov typically trembles as he waits in his opening position before the music begins. But on Tuesday, the 24-year-old U.S. figure skater stood firm at center ice with the Olympic rings beneath his feet and his right fist raised. A white gold ring with a single diamond on his ring finger glittered in the light.

It belonged to his father.

A year after his parents, Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, were among 67 people killed in a Washingon, D.C. plane crash, Naumov carried their strength during his Olympic debut and delivered an emotional season’s best 85.65 in the men’s short program that qualified him in 14th for the free skate Friday.

Wednesday’s live TV and streaming broadcasts unless noted (subject to change). All events stream live on Peacock or NBCOlympics.com with a streaming or cable login. All times Pacific. 🏅 — medal event for live broadcasts.

MULTIPLE SPORTS

8 p.m. — “Primetime in Milan” (delay): Figure skating, luge, speed skating, snowboarding and more. | NBC

ALPINE SKIING

2:30 a.m. — 🏅Men’s super-G | USA

MILAN — The hockey group-play game between the U.S. and Canada at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games on Tuesday was both meaningless and vitally important.

For the record, the U.S. breezed to a 5-0 win behind two goals from Hannah Bilka, a goal and two assists from Carolina Harvey and three assists from Abbey Murphy. It was another complete, methodical performance, one that saw the U.S. score in every period for a fourth straight game in its third straight shutout.

MILAN — Curler Korey Dropkin had been hoping to mount an Olympic victory podium since before he started grade school. On Tuesday, he finally made the final steps of that climb alongside mixed doubles partner Cory Thiesse, but the medal he got wasn’t the color he’d dreamed it would be with the Swedish brother-sister combo of Isabella and Rasmus Wrana winning a dramatic final, 6-5, on the final shot at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo .

The silver was the first in curling for the U.S. and just the third medal ever. It was also the Americans’ first medal in mixed doubles, which joined the Olympic calendar in 2018.

“It’s bittersweet. But Cory said earlier that, if we were to start this year off and tell each other we were going to be Olympic silver medalists, we’d be ecstatic,” Dropkin said.

MILAN — The Pyeongchang Olympics sparked two Olympic dreams.

There, Chloe Kim reached superstar status, winning at 17 to become the youngest woman to claim an Olympic snowboarding gold medal. At 11 years old, Bea Kim watched in awe.

“To see somebody who looked like me, who’s from the same area as me do something that incredible, I was like, ‘OK, wow,’” said Bea, a Palos Verdes native. “I want to do this.”

MILAN — History didn’t begin in Italy, but it made a number of significant advances there. The foundations for representative government, the 365-day Julian calendar, modern sanitation, newspapers, roads and the postal system were established in Rome.

Centuries later, the rest of the world is still doing as the Romans do.

But if Rome is Italy’s past, Milan is its present and future.

It is the country’s financial center, home to the Italian stock exchange. It’s the world’s fashion center, home to luxury brands including Prada, Versace, Armani and Dolce & Gabbana. And it has one of the largest concentrations of millionaires in the world, one for every 12 of the city 1.37 million residents.

MILAN — The Canadian women’s hockey team will be facing border rival United States minus captain Marie-Philip Poulin in a highly anticipated preliminary round game between the sport’s top powers at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Tuesday.

About five hours before face off, Canada’s Olympic Committee announced Poulin would not play because of an injury, without elaborating. The news came a day after Poulin limped off the ice with an apparent lower-body injury in the first period of a 5-1 win over Czechia.

The 34-year-old Poulin is considered day to day, though it’s unclear when the player nicknamed “Captain Clutch” will be available for Canada’s preliminary round closing game against Finland on Thursday — the game was previously scheduled for last week but postponed after the Finns’ roster was depleted by a stomach virus.

And Poulin’s availability is uncertain for Saturday, when Canada is scheduled to play its quarterfinal against an opponent yet to be determined.

Kristyna Kaltounkova hit Poulin nine minutes into the teams’ game, making contact with her helmet. Poulin returned for a shift on the resulting power play but headed back to the bench within seconds and seemed to be keeping weight off her right leg.

She headed to the locker room but was briefly back on the Canada bench, smiling broadly, near the end of the first period. Poulin did not return.

U.S. coach John Wroblewski called it “a shame” upon learning of Poulin’s injury following his team’s 5-0 win over Switzerland on the same evening.

Poulin’s injury has sent shockwaves through Canada’s hockey community, and is considered a potential major blow to the team’s chances to defend its Olympic title and win a sixth gold medal. She is one of the nation’s most decorated female players and earned her nickname by having scored three gold medal-clinching goals.

Dampf writes for the Associated Press.

Here’s where the medal count stands early into Day 4 of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games:

ANTERSELVA, Italy — Clean shooting secured Johan-Olav Botn of Norway the gold medal after the men’s 20-kilometer individual biathlon at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Tuesday.

Eric Perrot of France missed one shot and finished 14.8 seconds behind Botn to secure the silver while Botn’s teammate Sturla Holm Laegreid was 48.3 seconds behind with also one miss.

Botn pointed to the sky as he crossed the finish line, remembering teammate Sivert Guttorm Bakken, who was found dead in his hotel room in Lavazè, Italy, in December.

Crowd favorite Tommaso Giacomel of Italy was sixth, 2:27 back, after missing three targets. Defending Olympic champion Quentin Fillon Maillet of France missed four and finished eighth, 2:49 back.

Under cloudy skies, each racer left the start gate at 30-second intervals and skied four-kilometer loops five times and alternated shooting twice each in the prone and standing positions. Each missed shot added a minute to their overall time.

The individual is the most challenging of all biathlon formats. The men’s 20-kilometer (12.4 miles) individual is the most severe penalized for missed targets. Time is added for each missed shot instead of skiing a 150-meter penalty loop, which takes about 20 seconds.

The women race their individual event on Wednesday.

Bellisle writes for the Associated Press.

MILAN — After heavy snowfall days earlier, the weekend forecast for Cortina d’Ampezzo, site of women’s Alpine skiing for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, called for a chance of rain, a severe ice warning and daytime temperatures well above freezing followed by an overnight chill in the 20s.

And that could be a big problem, says Jonathan Belles, a meteorologist at the Weather Co. and a self-described Olympic geek, because any snow that melts in the day, then freezes again at night, is no longer snow. It’s ice or slush.

And since no one wants to ski on ice or slush, artificial snow will be used. That’s an even bigger problem.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Rough start for the rock stars.

Tuesday was reserved for the American risers.

Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan teamed up to win bronze in the women’s alpine combined, reaching the podium after U.S. teammate Mikaela Shiffrin faltered in the afternoon slalom.

TESERO, Italy — Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo blazed to his second victory at the Milan-Cortina Games in the cross-country sprint Tuesday to win his seventh Olympic gold medal.

The 29-year-old Norwegian star separated from the field with a punishing late uphill run to finish in 3 minutes, 39.8 seconds, easing off in the home stretch to leave Ben Ogden of the U.S. 0.8 seconds behind. Another Norwegian, Oskar Opstad Vike, placed third, 6.8 seconds behind the leader.

Ogden became only the second man to win a medal in cross-country skiing for the U.S. Bill Koch won the first in the men’s 30-kilometer race at the Innsbruck Games in 1976.

Linn Svahn led a Swedish sweep in the women’s competition, edging defending Olympic champion Jonna Sundling with Maja Dahlqvist in third place in a race watched by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Top-ranked Jessie Diggins of the United States was eliminated in the quarterfinals, compounding her disappointment after a fall in her opening race at the weekend.

Klaebo’s seven gold medals are one shy of the Olympic record in cross-country skiing.

Gatopoulos writes for the Associated Press.

LIVIGNO, Italy — Norway’s Birk Ruud added an Olympic slopestyle skiing gold medal in Italy to the big air title he won four years ago in China, overcoming bad sightlines on a gray day to land one of the contest’s few flawless runs.

Ruud put down his best run on his first trip down the mountain Tuesday, after eight of the previous 11 skiers fell. He fell on his second run and his final trip was a victory lap where, fittingly, he spun off a rail and landed facedown.

A ski fell off but he bent down and snapped it back on, then closed with a huge flip off the last kicker to celebrate.

Defending champion Alex Hall also went only one for three, with his lone success good enough for silver. It was America’s first medal in a week-plus of snowboarding and freeskiing at Livigno Snow Park in events the country used to dominate. New Zealand’s Luca Harrington took bronze.

Counting Hall’s win last time, the Americans captured six of the first nine medals in the Olympic history of this event that made its debut 12 years ago at the Sochi Games. There, American swept the podium.

U.S. skier Mac Forehand fell off the second rail all three times. Another teammate Konnor Ralph landed a triple-cork 1800-degree jump in his final run — a very tough trick — even though he also had come off the second rail early to ruin any chance at a medal.

Ruud has a chance to defend his big air title this week. He’s also a two-time slopestyle world champion with three X Games titles to his name.

Pells writes for the Associated Press.

Italy’s Arianna Fontana won her 12th Olympic medal and third gold at her sixth Winter Games to extend her record as the most decorated short track speedskater of all time Tuesday.

Fontana and the Italian team dominated the mixed team relay final to the delight of the vocal home crowd in the first short track final of the Milan Cortina Olympics. Canada was second and Belgium third.

Fontana started off the relay and put Italy into the lead on her second stint. Pietro Sighel spun backward in celebration as he crossed the line.

In an Olympic career which began at the age of 15 the last time Italy hosted the Winter Games in 2006, Fontana had won 11 previous medals and was already the most decorated Italian Winter Olympian ever.

Ellingworth writes for the Associated Press.

MILAN — The Olympic village rises above the security fences that surround it, a collection of structures both temporary and permanent where the athletes will reside over the next two-plus weeks at the Milan-Cortina Games.

Out on the sidewalk and behind barriers, lookie-loos crane their necks for a peek at the competitors, while pin traders mill through the churning crowd in hopes of making a souvenir swap.

But what’s it like inside the village, where the medal hopefuls work out, mingle and relax before some of the biggest moments of their young lives?

MILAN — U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn says she has smoothed out copyright concerns with the artist behind one of the pieces of her free skate music, and that the Olympic team gold medalist may have struck up a new friendship with him because of it.

Canadian artist Seb McKinnon, who produces music under the name CLANN, had taken to social media after Glenn performed her free skate to conclude the team event Sunday and expressed surprise that his song, “The Return,” was used as part of the program.

“So just found out an Olympic figure skater used one of my songs without permission for their routine. It aired all over the world ... what? Is that usual practice for the Olympics?” McKinnon posted to X, before eventually congratulating Glenn on her medal.

Figure skaters are required to obtain copyright permission for the music they use. But the process is confusing and prone to mistakes, and several skaters at the Milan-Cortina Games have had to change programs at the last minute because of it.

“The issue of music rights can be complex and confusing,” Glenn said in a statement. “Seems like there was a hiccup in that whole process. I’m glad we cleared things up with Seb and I look forward to collaborating with him.”

It was not clear where the hiccup occurred. Glenn has been performing to “The Return” for the past two years without any issues.

“It was a dream come true to perform at the Olympic Games and to have Seb acknowledge my performance and congratulate me afterward made the moment even more special,” Glenn said. “It’s my sincere hope that I was able to help create new fans of both figure skating and Seb. We will move forward and continue supporting both artists and the skating community.”

McKinnon, whose debut feature film will be released soon, said he was not trying to cause a controversy with his social media post.

“There’s absolutely no hate on my side,” he said. “At the same time I just want to make sure the artist rights are respected.”

The issue of copyright is a relatively new problem in figure skating, because for generations the only music that could be used was mostly part of the public domain. But when the International Skating Union relaxed its regulations in 2014 and athletes began using more modern music reflective of their own personality, some artists began to demand compensation for their work.

The ISU has been working to help skaters avoid copyright problems, but several still have popped up during the Winter Games.

Spanish skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate had to work feverishly to obtain approval for the music to his short program, set to a medley from the animated film “Minions.” Sabate had been performing the popular program all season, only to learn Universal Studios was poised to reject its use during the Winter Games. He got the final approval he needed last Friday.

Skretta writes for the Associated Press.

MILAN — The legends assemble. Olympic champions, world champions — the icons of U.S. figure skating — sit together for major competitions and watch the current generation of skaters carry the sport to new heights. Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan, Scott Hamilton, Dorothy Hamill and Brian Boitano to name a few, and they, just like the thousands of fans who haven’t competed under the championship spotlight, get nervous too.

That is, until Ilia Malinin skates.

“What he’s doing is just legendary,” said Boitano, the 1988 Olympic champion. “It will change the generation and the curve and the history and the future of our sport.”

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych will be allowed to wear a black armband in competition at the Milan-Cortina Games, the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday, but not the helmet he wanted to commemorate the lives of some athletes from his country who were killed in the war with Russia.

The IOC called the move a compromise.

“I think what we’ve tried to do is to address his desires with compassion and understanding,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said Tuesday. “He has expressed himself on social media and in the training and, as you know, we will not stop him expressing himself in press conferences, as he leaves competition in the mixed zone and elsewhere. We feel that this is a good compromise in the situation.”

Heraskevych said the IOC told him Monday night that he could not wear the helmet that shows the faces of several Ukrainian athletes who have been killed since 2022, because Olympic officials decided it broke the rule banning political statements.

The issue: Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter which, in part, states that “no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.”

Heraskevych — who was fourth at last year’s world championships and is generally considered a medal hopeful at these games — has more training runs scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, and he is expected to compete in the Olympic men’s skeleton race Thursday.

It was not immediately clear if he would wear the armband. The IOC also pointed out that it has banned armbands in the past, but is willing to make an exception in Heraskevych’s case. The move by the IOC doesn’t mean all athletes can wear armbands, and if Heraskevych chooses to do so, it can not include any text, Adams said.

“We don’t want everyone wearing a black armband for every competition,” Adams said. “But where there’s a good reasoning, it will be considered properly.”

Heraskevych said he is still pushing for a fair outcome, adding that he has seen Russian flags — which were supposed to be banned at these games — in the stands at some events, and wonders why they are allowed by the IOC.

“We didn’t violate any rules, and it should be allowed for me to compete with this helmet,” Heraskevych told The Associated Press on Monday, before Ukrainian sliding officials met with a representative from the IOC and learned the helmet would not be allowed. “I cannot understand how this helmet hurt anyone. It’s to pay tribute to athletes and some of them were medalists in the Youth Olympic Games. That means they’re Olympic family. They were part of this Olympic family, so I cannot understand they would find a reason why not.”

Reynolds writes for the Associated Press.

MILAN — The world is experiencing more conflict and turmoil than at any point since the Berlin Wall came down nearly four decades ago.

There are hot wars in Ukraine and Gaza, cold wars on the Korean peninsula and in the Taiwan Strait, and budding wars in Iran and parts of Africa. The Global Peace Index is at its lowest level ever.

But four days into the Milan-Cortina Winter Games, harmony reigns in the Olympic villages and venues across northern Italy,

When Casey Wasserman boarded Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet for a two-week tour of Africa in 2002, he had little inkling he was embarking on a journey that could imperil his fortune.

The 28-year-old scion of Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman was already the heir of a multimillion-dollar philanthropic foundation, the owner of a professional football team and the founder of a growing sports marketing firm. But many saw this as just the beginning for Wasserman, who seemed destined to follow his legendary grandfather as a business, political and culture titan.

He found an opportunity to step onto the world stage when former President Clinton invited him on a humanitarian trip to five African countries to promote AIDS/HIV prevention and economic development in nations racked by disease and war.

Fresh off her gold-medal winning performance in women’s downhill, Breezy Johnson had speedy encore in the opening portion of the Alpine team combined Tuesday.

Johnson posted the fastest time in the downhill portion of the event, putting Mikaela Shiffrin in prime position to anchor the U.S. duo for gold in the event.

Johnson posted a time of 1 minute and 36.59 seconds, six-hundredths of a second better than Austria’s Ariane Raedler.

American skier Jackie Wiles was 0.45 of a second back of Johnson for fourth. Teammate Keely Cashman placed 21st with a time of 1:39.91.

Shiffrin is the favorite in the slalom portion of the event — she has won seven of the last eight World Cup events this season. The slalom is scheduled to start at 5 a.m. PST.

Movieland Park, Marilyn Monroe, and the balcony where Juliet called out for Romeo.

These are the Winter Olympics?

Well, they were Saturday as photographer Rob Gauthier and I hacked our way across Northern Italy, driving between the two hubs of these Olympic Games, Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. It took us nine hours to get from our airport hotel in Milan to our rooms at a chalet in Dobbiaco — we had several stops along the way — and three more local buses Sunday morning to get to the finish line of the women’s downhill.

It was an odyssey well worth it.

The path prescribed by the organizers of Milan-Cortina 2026 was a train from Milan to Venice, then a bus from Venice to Cortina. That’s a six-hour journey at the most geographically dispersed Winter Games in history.

But Rob and I, reporting for the Los Angeles Times, decided to rent a car and drive a more direct route, especially after learning it took 13 hours for another group of reporters to get to Cortina on Friday because of an accident and a four-hour delay on the train line.

Yes, we were warned there might be heavy traffic on the drive to Cortina, and the winding mountain roads might be covered in ice. Neither was the case. That part was a breeze. Not only were the highways wide and well maintained, but we never had to tap the brakes.

That’s not to say we didn’t have some tense moments behind the wheel. In Verona, for instance, where we felt compelled to stop because it’s not only the setting for “Romeo and Juliet” but also host to the Olympic closing ceremony. We found ourselves squeezing down tiny alleys (were we even supposed to drive those?) in our robin’s-egg-blue Skoda SUV that screamed, “We’re tourists. We’re lost. We’re bumbling idiots. We can’t stop laughing.”

Somehow, after circling and circling, we found a parking spot downtown that may or may not have been reserved for delivery drivers. Whatever, we just wanted to get out of that car — a squishy sled better suited for Ken and Barbie but one that still felt too large in these claustrophobic streets.

We followed thick clusters of fellow tourists down Via Cappello to Casa di Giulietta, the onetime home of the Dal Cappello family, widely considered to be the historical inspiration for the Capulets in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”

Juliette’s balcony and a bronze statue depicting the Shakespearean character in Verona, Italy.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Not surprisingly, it’s the biggest tourist attraction in a swanky town, with thousands of visitors with a cappuccino in one hand and a gelato in the other somehow finding a way to snap selfies with the famous balcony as a backdrop. There’s a bronze statue of Juliet underneath it, and a steady line of tourists waiting to touch its burnished right breast — I’m not making this up — as that’s supposed to make you lucky in love.

Rob and I did both, and took the museum tour that allowed each of us to step out on that balcony and snap a few shots.

Then it was just up the street to the historic Arena di Verona, the First Century Roman amphitheatre which will host the Olympics’ final celebration and handover to the French Alps 2030 organizers. The place was surrounded by a construction fence with green privacy mesh, but peeking through an opening we could see workers testing a video board inside. It was strange, seeing that juxtaposition of ancient and modern.

Visitors pass the Arena di Verona, site of the 2026 Winter Olympics closing ceremony.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Verona wasn’t our first stop. About an hour out of Milan, we pulled off the highway to grab lunch somewhere and were intrigued to find a bunch of signs pointing us to “Movieland The Hollywood Park.” Movies? Hollywood Park? This was all sounding too familiar.

We drove through a bunch of roundabouts, followed the signs and came upon an amusement park. We could see a roller coaster over the fence with an ominous name, “Diabolik Invertigo.” I tried to pull into the park, but alas, it’s closed until April.

I felt like Clark Griswold looking for Marty Moose. Only the mascot at Movieland is Movy. Makes sense. It’s an alien with a passion for Earth cinema. Makes less sense.

Not too far from there, we discovered an upscale walled town called Lazise, on the shores of Lake Garda. It was a postcard day, warm and sunny, and Rob took some photos of the colorful wooden boats moored along a lakeside promenade. Meticulously maintained stone pavers formed a large courtyard. It was, as Movieland might say, an Italian town out of central casting.

Visitors stroll along the boardwalk in Lazise on the banks of Garda Lake.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

We had lunch at a restaurant on the water. Rob had a pizza. Not me. I had a plate of pasta. After four consecutive nights of pizza, I needed a break.

Rob noted that the autocorrect on his phone kept changing Lazise to “Lassie.” That was fitting, because there were dogs everywhere. At the table next to us, sat a friendly local woman and her son, along with her dog, Marilyn, named after Marilyn Monroe.

We chatted with them, and they practiced their English. They had watched the opening ceremony Friday night, but otherwise didn’t plan to pay much attention to the Olympics. In fact, as big a deal as the Olympics are, we saw very little indication outside of Milan, Cortina and Verona that the Games are happening. Even on those cities, I haven’t seen a ton of posters or banners or souvenir shops.

Eventually, we made our way into the mountains. It was dark now, and the road was narrow and winding. The snow was pretty sparse, even as we climbed.

When we finally reached our lodge, it was after 9 p.m. and there was about a foot of snow on the ground. The driveway was a little icy. We checked in, dropped off our bags and went across the street to grab some food. The place was closing and was no longer serving dinner.

The hostess directed us to a Mexican restaurant about a mile down the road. The staff was friendly, the place was open until 2, and the names of the menu items were familiar — tacos, nachos, enchiladas — even though the food itself wasn’t. I had pizza.

MILAN — He raised up the Quad King. He refined the jump that defined the Quad God.

From a sprawling ice facility in Irvine, Rafael Arutyunyan could just be the “Quad Maker.”

The 68-year-old figure skating coach is renowned as one of the best technicians in the world. He trained Olympic champion Nathan Chen starting when the “Quad King” was 10 years old. Four years after Chen became the first U.S. man to win singles Olympic gold since 2010, Arutyunyan could have a second consecutive pupil on top of the Olympic podium.

There will be a big visual difference between hockey at the Milan Cortina Olympics and the version played in the NHL: Every player is required to wear a neck guard.

“I haven’t worn a neck guard since youth hockey,” U.S. forward Brady Tkachuk said. “But it’s good.”

The sport’s governing body, the International Ice Hockey Federation, voted in December 2023 to make them mandatory at all international events in the aftermath of the death of Adam Johnson from a skate cut to the neck during a game in England that October.

“You’ve seen some horrible, horrible incidents around the globe,” Canada’s Mark Stone said. “The game has gotten so fast, so stuff happens at a high pace. ... We’re very fortunate in the league that we play, our staffs are very, very prepared, which I am very, very grateful for.”

The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association agreed to grandfather in the use of neck guards for incoming players starting next season as part of their most recent collective bargaining agreement. It’s the same thing they did with helmet visors in 2013; just four players remain without one.

Stone said he thinks neck guards will become the norm, just like visors, and before that helmets in a sport known for its stubbornness to equipment changes. For now, the vast majority of players have chosen not to wear neck guards voluntarily, so the Olympics will be something new.

“It can be an adjustment,” U.S. captain Auston Matthews said. “It’s not bad, honestly. I don’t think many guys love it, but I think once you kind of get out there and you’re moving around, you don’t really notice it as a much.”

The American Hockey League, one tier under the NHL, is in its second season with mandatory neck guards. USA Hockey in 2024 implemented a mandate for players under 18.

Whyno writes for the Associated Press.

Here’s a look at the athletes who have won medals at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Games:

Alpine Skiing

Men’s downhill

🥇Franjo von Allmen, Switzerland

🥈Giovanni Franzoni, Italy

🥉Dominik Paris, Italy

Women’s downhill

🥇Breezy Johnson, United States

🥈Emma Aicher, Germany

🥉Sofia Goggia

Men’s team combined

🥇Switzerland (Franjo von Allmen, Tanguy, Nef)

🥈Austria (Vincent Kreichmayr, Manuel Feller)

🥉Switzerland (Marco Odermatt, Loic Meillard)

Biathlon

Mixed relay (4x6 kilometer)

🥇France (Eric Perrot, Quentin Fillon Maillet, Lou Jeanmonnot, Julia Simon)

🥈Italy (Tommaso Giacomel, Luka Hofer, Dorothea Wierer, Lisa Vittozzi)

🥉Germany (Justus Strelow, Philipp Nawrath, Vanessa Voigt, Franziska Preuss)

Cross-country skiing

Women’s skiathlon

🥇Frida Karlsson, Sweden

🥈Ebba Andersson, Sweden

🥉Heidi Weng, Norway

Men’s skiathlon

🥇Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, Norway

🥈Mathis Desloges, France

🥉Martin Loewstroem Nyenget, Norway

Figure skating

Team competition

🥇United States

🥈Japan

🥉Italy

Freestyle skiing

Women’s freeski slopestyle

🥇Mathilde Gremaud, Switzerland

🥈Eileen Gu, China

🥉Megan Oldham, Canada

Luge

Men’s singles

🥇Max Langenhan, Germany

🥈Jonas Mueller, Austria

🥉Dominik Fischnaller, Italy

Ski jumping

Women’s normal hill

🥇Anna Odine Stroem, Norway

🥈Nika Prevc, Slovenia

🥉Nozomi Maruyama, Japan

Men’s normal hill

🥇Philipp Raimund, Germany

🥈Kacper Tomasiak, Poland

🥉Ren Nikaido, Japan

🥉Gregor Deschwanden, Switzerland

Snowboarding

Women’s parallel giant slalom

🥇Zuzana Maderova, Czechia

🥈Sabine Payer, Austria

🥉Lucia Dalmasso, Italy

Men’s parallel giant slalom

🥇Benjmain Karl, Austria

🥈Sangkyum Kim, South Korea

🥉Tervel Zamfirov, Bulgaria

Women’s big air

🥇Kokomo Murase, Japan

🥈Zoi Sadowski Synnott, New Zealand

🥉Seungeun Yu, South Korea

Men’s big air

🥇Kira Kimura, Japan

🥈Ryoma Kimata, Japan

🥉Yiming Su, China

Speedskating

Women’s 3,000 meters

🥇Francesca Lollobrigida, Italy

🥈Ragne Wiklund, Norway

🥉Valerie Maltais, Canada

Men’s 5,000 meters

🥇Sander Eitrem, Norway

🥈Metodej Jilek, Czechia

🥉Riccardo Lorello

Women’s 5,000 meters

🥇Jutta Leerdam, Netherlands

🥈Femke Kok, Netherlands

🥉Miho Takagi, Japan

MILAN — Mikaela Shiffrin has generally let her performances do the talking during a career that has seen her win two Olympic titles and more World Cup races than any skier in history.

But she clearly had something more to say before taking the slopes for the first time in the Milan-Cortina Winter Games.

“I actually have some thoughts,” she said when asked by a reporter how she felt about representing the U.S. at a time when the country is riven by deep political divides. “I can read something that I have written if you guys don’t mind.”

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn’s downhill run lasted 13 seconds. The question of whether she should have been racing at all with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament will be debated for years.

The legendary 41-year-old ski racer, whose violent crash resulted in her being airlifted off the course and in surgery hours later Sunday with a complex tibia fracture that will require multiple surgeries, broke her silence late Monday night.

In an Instagram post, Vonn wrote that “while yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets. Standing in the starting gate yesterday was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself. I also knew that racing was a risk. It always was and always will be an incredibly dangerous sport.”

Tuesday’s live TV and streaming broadcasts unless noted (subject to change). All events stream live on Peacock or NBCOlympics.com with a streaming or cable login. All times Pacific. 🏅 — medal event for live broadcasts.

MULTIPLE SPORTS

8 p.m. — “Primetime in Milan” (delay) — Figure skating, skiing, cross-country skiing, curling, luge and more | NBC

ALPINE SKIING

1:30 a.m. — Women’s combined, downhill | USA

4:50 a.m. — 🏅Women’s combined, slalom | USA

The opening days of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games featured plenty of memorable moments.

From Swiss domination in men’s skiing to Breezy Johnson’s gold-medal triumph in women’s downhill, here’s a look back on an eventful first weekend:

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2026 Winter Olympics opening weekend recap

Recapping an eventful opening weekend to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.

Feb. 9, 2026