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Day 3 of the 2026 Winter Olympics features a packed slate, with five gold medals due to be handed out.
One of those golds went to Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud who edged out China superstar Eileen Gu in the women's freeski slopestyle to defend her title. It came down to the final run but an early fall for Gu meant gold for her greatest rival, while Canada's Megan Oldham took the bronze.
Switzerland got their second gold of the day in the men's Alpine skiing combined team event where Tanguy Nef slalomed superbly into first place to bring Franjo von Allmen another gold medal at these Games.
Six American skaters take part in the ice dance at 1:20 p.m. ET while Team USA are in women's hockey action at 2:40 p.m. ET.
Check out the Winter Olympics schedule and be sure to follow The Athletic’s coverage of the Games.
"Italia, Italia, Italia…" The hosts win the first end 2-0. And two sheets over, GB win their opening end 1-0. The Swedes won't be too disappointed with that, though, as last-stone advantage flips every time someone scores.
As what appears to be customary during breaks at Milan venues, the in-arena host is leading the crowd in "the wave."
As the lights dim, fans are flashing their phone lights to the beat of Macklemore's "Can't Hold Us."
Is it the year 2011?
Hello from Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, where Team USA is set to take on Switzerland at 2:40 p.m. ET.
The U.S. has gotten off to a dominant start at these Olympics, taking comfortable wins over Czech Republic and Finland. Today's game is the Americans' final tuneup before tomorrow's heavyweight clash against Canada that will almost certainly determine the top seed for the knockout round.
You can follow our live coverage of today's game here.
Good evening, curling fans!
We are now 10 minutes away from the semi-finals in the mixed doubles: Italy v USA and GB v Sweden. The Cortina Curling Centre has been filling up for the last hour and there's a lively crowd in tonight.
They are currently demonstrating that they like to "move it, move it". To my left, there are lots of athletes from teams that didn't make this far and the players' families. There are plenty of Union Jacks, Stars and Stripes, Tricoli and Nordic crosses in the house. Oooo, we just had a nice little lights show, too. And now we've got bag pipes!
Halfway through the women's 1000-meter speed skating final and Netherlands' Suzanne Schulting still leads with a time of 1:15.46. There's a 20-minute break for the zambonis to clean the ice.
Still to come include Americans Brittany Bowe and Erin Jackson, Femke Kok and Jutta Leerdam of Netherlands and seven-time Olympic medalist Miho Takagi from Japan.
Italy's Dominik Fischnaller won bronze in the men's luge on Sunday. Now he will wait and see if his wife can do the same — or better.
American Emily Fischnaller is currently competing in the women's event. Her first run of 52.892 seconds puts her seventh in the leaderboard, 0.302 off the lead with three runs still to come to climb up the standings.
You can read more about her journey to these Olympics — including recovering from a broken neck — from Lindsay Schnell below.
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Alright, we're through the first run of women's singles in luge.
Ashley Farquharson, who started 16th, remains in fourth place, and Emily Fischnaller is in seventh. Summer Britcher, who started in the sixth slot, is in 15th place.
Two Germans, Merle Malou Fraebel and Julia Taubitz, are in the lead, followed by Italy's Verena Hofer.
I have never met someone like Eileen Gu. After her silver medal, there was a media scrum from broadcasters around the world queuing up to speak to her. At one point she went over to the screaming Chinese fans who had waited in the freezing cold for over an hour after the race's completion and acknowledged their support before returning to her media duties.
Eloquent and erudite with a vast vocabulary and lightning speed of thought, she navigated topics from the physics of her sport to Donald Trump, from the art of visualisation to how she copes with her celebrity life, from landing tricks she had never tried before to crediting her mum. Olympic volunteers were queuing for selfies with her. And yet she is still only 22.
Here's a flavour of her quotes:
💬 “Sports have brought me such joy and such a unique perspective in life, I think especially as a young woman. The confidence that it has instilled in me to participate in an extreme sport, a male-dominated extreme sport. You're literally pushing the boundaries of the human limit.
“That was the best slopestyle run I've ever done. Tom Wallisch (2013 freestyle World Champion) said it was the best rail run in a women's slopestyle contest ever, which I take with great pride and honour. I can't believe he said that. I'm a huge fan!
“Being able to do that also at the same time instils this level of deep-seated confidence. So many young women can stand to benefit from that. You see rates of women participating in, girls participating in sports drop off precipitously between the ages of 11 and 14, middle school.
“That's less about being: “You have to be a professional athlete” but it's just these unspoken social pressures where it becomes uncool or sports no longer belong to you. That's just when girls need to feel more confident, they need to grow into themselves, they need to trust themselves and love themselves and bet on themselves when everything's on the line. Sports instil that in you. I hope that if one young girl got to see me today, picked up a pair of skis because of it, then that is my gold medal.”
Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands and Italy's Maybritt Vigl went in the first heat at the women's 1000m speed skating final. A huge roar for the Dutchwoman before she began to skate and every time she passed by the big sections of Netherlands fans.
Even against the host nation Italy, it's clear this crowd is predominantly Dutch, who have three athletes in this race. She sets the pace with a time of 1:15.46.
Whoa, what a luge run from Ashley Farquharson!
he started 16th but jumps up to fourth place with a terrific first slide, just 0.272 seconds behind the leader. Good stuff from Emily Fischnaller, too, who started 17th and is currently in 7th place.
Brittany Bowe and Erin Jackson, the U.S. flagbearer in the Opening Ceremony, will take the ice for the first time in the women's 1000m event.
Bowe won a bronze in this event in Bejiing while Jackson, the reining 500m champ, has added this to her program. Both women are medal contenders but it's a strong field.
Dutch skater Femke Kok is ranked No. 1 in the world and her teammate Jutta Leerdam is second. Japan's Miho Takagi is another threat in the middle distance.
Meet Bof! He is from the Netherlands, attending his eighth Olympics at the Milan Cortina Games.
Bof is wearing an orange robe with a funky hat with tons of Olympic pins and souvenirs. He made the hat 40 years ago and now he puts everything he's collected at past Olympic Games on it.
He is excited to attend the women’s 1,000m speed skating. Asked why he loves speed skating, Bof had this simple response:
“Because the Dutch always win!”
The lights are dimmed and flashing inside Milano Speed Skating Stadium. The speakers are blaring Metallica's "Enter Sandman."
It makes me think I'm at a big NHL playoff game in Canada. But no this is speed skating, where we're not long now until the first heat of the women's 1,000m final.
Look out into the oval-shape amphitheatre and it's a sea of orange. Tons of Netherlands fans ready to see their country add to their haul of speed skating Olympic medals.
Jutta Leerdam, a two-time world champion in the 1,000m for Netherlands, is competing in this event. She is engaged to influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul.
Really bad start for Summer Britcher in her first luge run. As the American got settled to lay down the sled banged into the wall, which cost her almost half a second. Not good.
The commentators described it as a "devastating mistake" and a "huge blow" to her medal chances. As soon as she crossed the finish line she sat up shaking her head.
She's almost eight tenths behind the leader, Fraebel of Germany.
Wow, what a start to the women's luge competition!
The first athlete to take a first run is Germany's Julia Taubitz, immediately breaking the track record at the Cortina Sliding Centre as she clocks 52.638 seconds.
It doesn't last long, however, as her team-mate Merle Malou Fraebel goes even faster with 52.590.
The German athletes, as expected, are showing their dominance early on, but there's still a long way to go in this event. Athletes complete four runs in total — two today and two tomorrow.
“It’s been a really beautiful journey to learn more about myself and kinda discover who I am as a 25-year-old now, proud owner of a frontal lobe."
That was Chloe Kim on Monday, reflecting on a bumpy last few years that left her contemplating her future in a sport she's dominated since she was 17.
Then she laughed. She needed to. It’s been a stressful few weeks. It's been a stressful few years.
Kim is aiming for a third straight halfpipe gold — something no American has ever accomplished, including the legendary Shaun White. The biggest hindrance, it seems, will be a dislocated shoulder that requires her to wear a shoulder brace underneath her Team USA gear. Kim downplayed its impact, oozing confidence on Monday. She plans on unveiling a new routine this week for the first time in competition.
You encounter so many fans while making the walk to the Milano Speed Skating Stadium.
Here are a group of German fans with flags a sign that says “Go Anna!”
They are cheering for Anna Ostlender competing in the women’s 1,000m final.
In Cortina, we’re a few minutes from the start of luge, a sport you probably know about because of a viral Saturday Night Live skit starring a luge athlete who looks … remarkably similar to the U.S. one who should contend for a medal here.
Summer Britcher, who’s appearing in her fourth Olympics, isn’t positive she was in the inspiration for the skit, which involved a fictional snowboarder, figure skater and luger. But she’s also not ruling it out.
“I thought it was so funny,” said Britcher, who is ranked No. 2 in World Cup standings coming into the Games. “I had no idea it was coming. My boyfriend sent it to me and as I was watching it, just more and more of the details stood out. And I was like, ‘Hey, hang on a second.’”
It wasn’t just that the actress playing “Gertie Burper” was tall with brown hair. She also raced on a yellow sled, Britcher’s signature accessory. And while Burper claimed a corpse with the perfect body type could win a luge race, Britcher wasn’t so sure.
Women’s singles kicks off tonight with runs 1 & 2; Britcher will slide sixth. Times from tonight will determine the order tomorrow, when medals are awarded.
American Ashley Farquharson slides 16th and right after her is American Emily Fischnaller, whose remarkable comeback after breaking her neck at the 2018 Games is one worth knowing. Fischnaller’s husband, Dominik Fischnaller of Italy, won bronze in men’s singles Sunday.
She might not have come away with the gold medal today — silver is still pretty good, mind you — but there are not many athletes at these games with the same global status and commercial firepower as Eileen Gu.
With $23.1m earnings (according to Forbes), she is the fourth-highest earning female athlete of 2025 behind three tennis stars. She has ranked inside the top five every year since the 22-year-old won two gold medals and silver at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in the big air, halfpipe and slopestyle.
Despite her medals and victories, the 2026 Olympic torchbearer earned $0.1 million from skiing last year — $23 million came from her lucrative off-field endorsements. Now that’s star power.
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