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We got a bit of an opening from their previous shot, and the coaches saw a possibility. I threw the weight we wanted; the rock ran the way we wanted, and I was just ecstatic to make that shot.

Before the puck drops, a parent must drain their pockets to outfit their child from head to toe. Skates, a helmet, shoulder pads, elbow pads, shin guards, gloves, hockey pants, neck guard, a stick, a mouth guard and a bag large enough to hold it all, is just the beginning. Even modest equipment purchases can reach $600 to $1,500 in the first year alone.

When Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, Deer Valley was at the heart of the action - and in 2034 it will once again take centre stage as the venue for freestyle moguls and aerials. Today, guests at The St. Regis Deer Valley can connect directly to that Olympic legacy through an exclusive partnership with the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation.

The U.S. has won only two the last a long 46 years ago, when an underdog American squad upset the Soviet Union in 1980's "Miracle on Ice." Today, the Americans aren't such underdogs anymore. But this generation of American stars including team captain Auston Matthews, star goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, and the Tkachuk brothers Matthew and Brady still lack a signature win to prove they belong with the best.

When you have guys like Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Sidney Crosby, and Cale Makar all combining on a line of their own it is hard to imagine having anything better, and with a lot of fans already talking about this Canadian team being the best of all time, it is almost impossible to believe it could get any better, but it can.

Team USA men's hockey easily handled Latvia in their opening game of the 2026 Winter Olympics, securing a 5-1 victory. The focus now turns to their second round-robin game against Denmark on Saturday at 3:10 p.m. ET. Denmark lost their opener 3-1 to Germany but played better than the scoreline suggests. They outshot the Germans 38-25 but struggled to contain the star power of Leon Draisaitl and Tim Stutzle.

BRIAN KENNY: Welcome to Cold Call, the podcast where we dive deep into the groundbreaking ideas in Harvard Business School case studies. Today on Cold Call, we're looking at a sport where innovation doesn't come from flash or funding, but from rethinking first principles. The sport is speed skating and we're dropping this episode during the 2026 Winter Olympics. The US men's Speed Skating team is coming off years of disappointment, searching for a breakthrough in the team pursuit event. The innovation works.

Men's four-person bobsledding made its Olympic debut in Chamonix, France, in 1924; women's two-person bobsledding didn't enter the Games until 2002 in Salt Lake City. Women's monobob arrived in 2022. While the earliest bobsleds were made of wood, the sport has been synonymous with steel for years, although in recent decades it has been replaced by carbon fiber, which provides greater lightness and strength.

It's the last full day of competition at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Games. There's a pair of big curling games on Team Canada's schedule: the men will play in the gold-medal match at 1:05 p.m. ET and the women are chasing bronze at 8:05 a.m. ET. Canada also has a good chance for another gold medal in men's ski cross. The final race is at 7:10 a.m. ET.

MILAN -- Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid and Canada are rolling into the knockout round at the Olympics as the best team in the tournament. They may have put the top seed out of the Americans' reach. Crosby and McDavid each had a goal and two assists in a clinical, businesslike 10-2 dismantling of France on Sunday, which included Tom Wilson fighting the player who delivered a forearm to Nathan MacKinnon's face.

On June 24 2022 the International Olympic Committee 'IOC' announced the addition of two new disciplines to the Winter Olympics. These disciplines are dual moguls and women's large hill ski jumping. The addition of women's large hill jumping leaves Nordic Combined as the last men-only Winter Olympic event. Today we'll take a closer look at dual moguls, which will premier at the ski resort of Livigno, Italy, at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics for both men and women.

If that's true," caveated Minneapolis native Taylor Anderson-Heide after the 9-8 nail-biter, "I think we just played a really good game. They're No. 1 in the world." Tara Peterson of Shoreview, Minnesota, chimed in: "It just always feels really good to beat [Canada skip] Rachel Homan. So any team to beat them, that's pretty impressive." Since 1998, when women's curling was introduced at the Olympics, teams from the U.S. and Canada have played at least once in each Games.

Curling fans, rejoice! It is only fitting that the one sport played every single day of the Winter Olympics is the one that opens proceedings at Milano Cortina. Dubbed chess on ice, curling may not have the brute force of ice hockey or the airtime of snowboarding, but it is a huge test in precision, patience and handling pressure. Enter mixed doubles, which has its own subplot straight out of a romcom, with husband-and-wife pairings representing Norway, Canada and Switzerland.