Norway tallied a record 41 medals, 8 more than the second-place Americans, who have a population over 60 times that of Norway. Norway's 18 gold medals at the 2026 games were also a record, with 6 of these golds coming from cross-country skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo.
Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the Games, the athletes are unable to participate. They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment.
In the end it turned out to be a Winter Olympics for the record books. U.S. athletes arrived in Italy facing protests and questions about their nation's politics. In early competition, some of the biggest U.S. stars stumbled in dramatic fashion on the snow and ice. But when the spotlight shifted to the closing ceremony in Verona, the U.S. had scooped up 12 gold medals its best tally ever in a Winter Games with 33 medals overall. That trails only winter sport superpower Norway.
Sweden's biathletes have struggled to deliver medals at the Winter Olympics and on Friday they finally ran out of patience with their waxing team, blaming a bad job on their skis for an embarrassingly poor performance in the men's mass start. Often among the favourites in biathlon events, the Swedes had a dismal day in the final men's race of the Games,
Winter Olympics Tanya Aldred, Billy Munday and James Wallace buckle up for day 15 of these compelling Games, which brings the prospect of a British curling gold medal. Bruce Mouat and his rink of Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan and Bobby Lammie face Canada in the final (6.05pm-9. 20pm) looking to upgrade the silver they won in Beijing four years ago. Other highlights include the opening two heats of the four-man bobsleigh (9am and 10.57am),
Olympic hockey star Hilary Knight proposed to U.S. Olympic speed skater Brittany Bowe, Outsports reported, getting down on one knee and presenting a ring in a red box in the Olympic Village. Bowe excitedly held her hands in front of her face and nodded in acceptance before leaping into Knight's arms and excitedly showing her ring to the camera while embracing her fiancée.
We can partly thank Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for popularising the Winter Olympics' newest sport, which made its debut amid an unrelenting snowstorm, a touch of mayhem, and no little controversy in Bormio. In 1894, the year after he had killed off Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Conan Doyle wrote about his own perilous 15-mile journey across the 8,000-feet high Maienfelder Furka Pass one that involved skiing and mountaineering.
Isabeau Levito is famous for her balletic elegance on the ice. Her skating style is markedly lyrical; according to NBC's Olympics website, "Unlike many skaters who rely heavily on high-difficulty jumps, Levito balances technical ability with musical interpretation." She is known "for her ability to connect with audiences through subtle emotional storytelling." At only 18, 2026 marks Isabeau's first Olympic Games.
If a dog could compete in the Winter Olympics, which disciplines would it be best at? This age-old question took on new relevance Wednesday, when a Czechoslovakian wolfdog dashed onto the cross-country skiing course during the women's team sprint qualifiers. "So I'm going to say that it's domesticated. Wants to enjoy the finish as well," said commentator Duane Dell'Oca as the canine interloper, a local pooch named Nazgul, raced Croatia's Tena Hadzic and Australia's Phoebe Cridland across the finish line.
Gather 'round, friends, for it is time to play my favorite newly invented game of the Winter Olympics. The game is called "Are The Fellas In Sync," and the way you play this game is by scrolling through Getty Images photos from Team Pursuit Speedskating and asking yourself a simple question: A re these three fellas (gender-neutral) before me truly, honestly, and existentially in sync? We'll start off with an easy round.
Freestyle skier Marion Thenault, a 13-time World Cup medallist, finished seventh in women's aerials. Snowboard star Mark McMorris, owner of three previous Olympic slopestyle medals, missed the podium in today's final. Playoff-bound Brad Jacobs defeats Italy at Milano Cortina 2026 Norway's Johannes Hsflot Klbo wins record-extending 10th Winter Olympic gold medal American Mikaela Shiffrin wins slalom for 3rd Olympic gold medal Slovakia routs Germany to reach the men's Olympic hockey semifinals
The sport-adjacent drama has been the real story of this year's Winter Olympics in Milan. Despite RTE's lacklustre Winter Olympics coverage, I have become completely enthralled in it. Not only by the sport but also for all the off-piste, behind-the-scenes, sport-adjacent drama. And by jove, there has been a cornucopia of it this year, from cheating confessions and allegations, to 'penisgate'.
You have a very important role! As a first-person-view camera drone, you soar high above the action at the Milan Cortina Games, capturing aerial footage of Olympic athletes as they fly through the snow and slide down the ice. You will zoom around at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour, capturing immersive, verité-style footage that makes these inherently exciting sports feel even more exciting. You make the luge come alive!
Ashleigh Nelson was never meant to be in the Winter Olympics. If you'd asked her 18 months ago where she expected to be competing this week, she would have told you she would be at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham running the 60m at the UK Indoor Championships, not standing at the top of the world's newest ice track riding a 75,000 bobsleigh.
But there's also the matter of making sure one's equipment is up to snuff - and, beginning with this year's Winter Olympics, that means not having any PFAS, or "forever chemicals," in the mix. What happens if a competitor does turn out to have such chemicals in their equipment? They'll find themselves disqualified. As GearJunkie's Mary Andino reports, three skiiers have been disqualified so far due to their use of fluorocarbon wax, also known as "fluoro wax."
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy In a nail-biting, four-heat race that boiled down to a contest against a pair of top German sliders, Americans Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, and Kaillie Humphreys, 40, secured silver and bronze medals Monday night on the icy track in Cortina. Meyers Taylor came from behind in the fourth and final heat, gliding and banking cleanly into the steep curves and dropping smoothly into the track's straight-aways to win her first career gold. German Laura Nolte, age 27, took silver.
The Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler rejoined her team at the Winter Olympics on Monday after a successful appeal against a suspension handed out before the Milano Cortina Games for an alleged doping violation. Passler began training in the bright sunshine at the Antholz-Anterselva Biathlon Arena on Monday afternoon, firing off shots in bunches of five on the range as her coaches watched intently.
Tkachuk was credited with the seconday helper on Auston Matthews' power-play goal at the 3:25 mark and then drew the primay assist on Brock Faber's even-strength marker with 2:25 left in the frame. He played 14:57, registered three shots on goal, took an unsportsmanlike conduct minor and finished the tilt with a plus-one rating as the Americans topped Group C with a perfect 3-0 record.
Johannes Hsflot Klbo led Norway to victory in the men's 4x7.5km cross-country relay at the Milano Cortina Games on Sunday to win a record ninth career gold medal at the Winter Olympics. The 29-year-old has won four gold medals at these Games and is widely expected to take another two in the men's team sprint on Wednesday and 50km classic race on Saturday.
Hundreds of thousands of international tourists are expected to descend on Brazil over the next few days for carnival. But you didn't need to go further than the Dolomites on Saturday to see somebody performing samba on a raised platform. Lucas Pinheiro Braathen entered Brazilian sporting folklore by snaring his country's, and continent's, first medal at a Winter Olympics and a gold at that.
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