#milano-cortina-2026

#milano-cortina-2026

Jorrit Bergsma, the mullet-wearing 40-year-old speed skating legend from the Netherlands, won the men's mass start on Saturday afternoon for his second medal of the Milano Cortina Games and his first Olympic gold since 2014. Bergsma crossed first in 7:55.50, ahead of Viktor Hald Thorup of Denmark and Andrea Giovannini of Italy, denying American star Jordan Stolz in his bid to become the first man in 32 years to win three long-track speed skating golds at a single Olympics.

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.

The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games officially come to a close on Sunday, and I think it's safe to say they've been a glorious, and often heartwarming, distraction from all the chaos going on in the world for the last two weeks. So, let's take a lil look back at some of the best, most wholesome moments you might've missed:

As a TV pundit, it was hard to keep my emotions in check watching Great Britain's skeleton success because I knew what it meant to Matt Weston and Tabby Stoecker to become Olympic champions Matt twice, of course. Their achievements are not only historic but the day-to-day impact will be so meaningful to both of them. I remember seeing kids' drawings of me and people dressing up as Lizzy and now I'm seeing it from a different perspective. I'm incredibly proud of them.

Good morning! We're racing towards the finishing line now in Milan, stylish snow suit in one hand, espresso in the other. Nine golds hang glistening on the line to be claimed . The final snowboarding events swoosh onto our screens soon, with the men's and women's slopestyle; while out on the mountains, cowbells and exhaution in the cross-country team sprint skiing. Ice-hockey punctuates the day, with the men's quarter-finals expect the usual brutality: Slovakia v Germany, Canada v Czechia, Finland v Switzerland, and USA v Sweden.

But fear not, as more are on the way. The Milano Cortina 2026 organising committee told People: "We can confirm that condom supplies in the Olympic Villages were temporarily depleted due to higher-than-anticipated demand. "Additional supplies are being delivered and will be distributed across all Villages between today and Monday. "They will be continuously replenished until the end of the Games to ensure continues availability."

I have repeated this from Day 1; I don't think it violates any rules. In accordance with Rule 50 we don't have any political propaganda, we don't have any racial propaganda, and we don't have any harassment towards anyone on this helmet. So I believe this helmet didn't (break) any rules," he said.

They had never been held scoreless before in the Olympics, and the 5-0 final score was the biggest deficit a Canadian Olympic team has ever had against the USA men's or women's. With the win, Team USA clinched an undefeated run through group play and now has all the momentum as the No. 1 seed heading into the quarterfinals, where it will face host country Italy.

Each Winter Olympics produces one or two figures who come to define it. The stars whose performances transcend result sheets and medal tables and settle into memory as shorthand for the event itself. For decades, America has waited for their next one: someone capable of cutting through the noise of the crowded sports landscape and centering themselves in the national conversation. Jordan Stolz may be him.

It's definitely heavy. Heavier than I expected. I think that's maybe why it broke.

Maia Schwinghammer didn't need a medal run to become part of the Olympic conversation in Italy. The 24-year-old Canadian freestyle skier from Saskatoon found herself in the spotlight after her father went viral during a chance, on-the-street interview with CBC Sports in Livigno. Rick Schwinghammer was stopped by reporter Ariel Helwani, and the light exchange gave way to a deeply personal moment when he mentioned his daughter was competing.

The Winter Olympics are back and this time they're zigzagging across northern Italy. Milano Cortina 2026 will be the most spread-out Winter Games ever staged, jumping from Milan's arenas to the Dolomites' classic Alpine slopes. With returning superstars, brand-new events and Italy leaning hard into its Olympic heritage, these Games may feel like they've arrived quietly but there is a lot going on.

"Grindr shows users who's nearby and how far away they are. In most contexts, that's useful. In the Olympic Village where thousands of athletes are packed into a small area, those same features may become a liability. Someone outside the Village could browse profiles inside it. Distance data could be used to pinpoint someone's exact location. And simply appearing on Grindr tells the world something about a person's identity that, in more than 60 countries, remains a criminal offence,"

A cable car being built to carry spectators to the women's Olympic Alpine skiing events in Cortina is in serious doubt of not being completed in time, prompting Games organisers to request school closures to ease the pressure on the Dolomite resort's transport system. The Apollonio-Socrepes lift is one of the most contentious pieces of Olympic infrastructure for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

Members of Italy's right-wing League party, part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government, have criticised the choice of Ghali to perform at the event in the San Siro stadium on February 6. Ghali was at the centre of a political spat two years ago during the popular Sanremo song contest, when he called for a stop to the genocide in reference to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.