Shiffrin has won 2 gold medals and 1 silver in her previous Olympic appearances, having competed in the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.

For the Milan Cortina Games, there's an added layer of complexity. It’s the most spread-out Winter Games in history, so Olympic venues are in localities with very different weather conditions

The organisers of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics apologised on Monday for the surface of the medals podium at Sunday's figure skating team event after some competitors complained that it damaged their skates.

Lindsey Vonn’s defiant bid to win the Winter Olympic downhill at the age of 41, on a rebuilt right knee and a badly injured left knee, ended Sunday in a frightening crash that left her with a broken leg and saw her taken to safety by a rescue helicopter for the second time in nine days.

MILAN (AP) — It seemed only fitting that Ilia Malinin was the first one to get his Olympic gold medal after the U.S. successfully defended its team title by holding off the Japanese on Sunday night in the three-day competition at the Milan Cortina Games.

Sidney Crosby was named captain for Team Canada at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 on Sunday. Crosby is competing in his third Olympic Games, winning gold with Canada at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Olympics. He scored in overtime in the gold medal game against the United States in 2010.

Breezy Johnson took the lead early on after flying down the mountain in 1:36.10. It is her first-ever Olympic medal.