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It’s Day 5 of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics with eight gold medals on the line.
The first went to Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen, who added Alpine skiing’s super-G to his downhill and team combined titles. U.S. star Ryan Cochran-Siegle repeated his Beijing feat with a fine silver.
Jens Luraas Oftebro (Nordic combined) added a seventh gold to Norway’s Games-leading tally, while the U.S. took both gold and silver via Elizabeth Lemley and Jaelin Kauf in the freestyle women’s moguls.
Ice hockey, men's and women's luge and figure skating make up the rest of the programme today.
Follow along for live coverage, context and analysis from our reporters on the ground in Italy.
By the numbers and eye test, Finland dominated the first period but it's all for naught as Slovakia leads 1-0 after 20 minutes.
Finland already has 18 shots on target but Samuel Hlavaj has been up to the challenge, not letting any sneak through.
Slovakia has just five shots on goal but Juraj Slafkovsky managed to find nylon.
With this kind of continued pressure, one would assume that Finland will break through eventually.
Can the U.S. take a luge medal home twice in two days? Three times in two days? We're about to find out.
We're through the first run of luge women's doubles and the U.S. team of Chevonne Forgan and the pin trading queen Sophia Kirkby are in fifth place, almost half a second behind the leaders, from Italy.
That's a solid first slide and puts them within striking distance of the podium.
As a reminder, this is the first time luge women's doubles is being included in the Olympics. Run 1 of luge men's doubles is up next in about 20 minutes.
The first run of the women's doubles luge is done.
Hosts Italy lead the way so far, with Germany and Italy making up the rest of the podium places so far.
Kirkby/Forgan of the U.S. are not far back in fifth, Canadians Allan/Podulsky in 10th place of 11.
Work to do for both.
Can't help but think of Robert Frost's “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” with this photo from the women's biathlon earlier.
But there was no time for Natalia Sidorowicz and Vanessa Voigt to pause in contemplation as they make their way through the snow and the trees.
They had a 15-kilometer race to contend with.
Sidorowicz finished 23rd, Voigt in the cruelest position of all: fourth, just outside the medals.
While we get ready to settle in for another evening of Olympic curling, let us take a beat, International Olympic Committee-style, to share some very positive numbers.
Not our own, although we are very pleased with them, too, but NBC's. According to the U.S. network, its two primetime shows on Sunday averaged 42 million viewers.
That is its best audience for a Winter Olympics since day two of Sochi 2014, and 73 per cent up on the corresponding day of Beijing 2022. It turns out American glory (and calamity) is good for ratings.
However, the IOC is perhaps even more impressed that nine million Brazilians watched ski jumping on Globo.
I cannot help thinking that some of those viewers wanted to see if you really can inject acid into your genitals and go further.
Leading up to the Winter Games, several integral parts of Team USA's men's hockey team have been individually underperforming in their respective NHL seasons.
Does this signal a disappointing run in Milan or have these players been coasting a bit, looking ahead to this opportunity on the world stage?
Max Bultman and Jesse Granger of The Athletic provide their insights in this video.
Finland will now have a prime opportunity to equalize after Tomas Tatar of Slovakia is called from tripping. It's a two-minute minor.
China's Jiayu Liu received medical treatment on the course after crashing in this morning's halfpipe qualifying.
There is no word on her condition from the Olympic media relations staff here in Livigno, but according to Chinese broadcaster CCTV Sports, she regained consciousness after a severe concussion.
Here we go then, into the final of the women's doubles in the luge.
Sophia Kirkby and Chevonne Forgan of the United States have a nice clean run to start us off, and post a competitive 53.570.
Wow, hosts Italy follow and Votter/Oberhofer take nearly half a second off their team! Great run.
Favorites of Kipp and Egle of Austria next up…
A little error from the Austrian pair but they are only nine-hundredths of a second behind the Italians after clipping the chicane. Not the worst result.
The reigning Men's Hockey Olympic MVP Juraj Slafkovsky opens the scoring in the tournament to put Slovakia up 1-0 over Finland.
A giveaway by Finland deep in its own zone immediately leads to the first goal of the men's tournament, courtesy of Slovakia's Juraj Slafkovsky.
He intercepts the errant pass, applies pressure to the net and maneuvers the puck around a lunging Juuse Saros for the game's opening goal less than eight minutes into the contest.
The national mint of Italy is offering to repair defective medal fixings for athletes, organizers of the Milan Cortina Olympics said Tuesday at a news conference.
Several Olympians, including Team USA gold medalists Breezy Johnson (women’s downhill skiing) and Alysa Liu (team figure skating) and the bronze medal-winning German biathlon team, have had medals detach from their ribbons.
Johnson noticed her medal breaking as she jumped in celebration. “Don’t jump in them,” she said. “I was jumping in excitement, and it broke. It’s not like crazy broken, but a little broken.”
“A limited number of medals have had a few problems,” Olympic organizing committee spokesperson Luca Casassa said in comments translated from Italian.
However, some athletes who had issues with their medals from earlier in the Games, such as Johnson, received replacements instead of getting their original medal fixed.
Johnson told Reuters on Wednesday that there were slight differences in her replacement and she would prefer to have the original one repaired and returned to her.
The Milan Cortina Games Olympic logo can be seen at venues and around the city of Milan.
They are also in some hidden, random places.
If you enter the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan’s iconic shopping mall, and look up at the dome-like structure, you can see the logo illuminated.
At night it will be lit up for people to gaze at, a constant reminder of the Games’ presence in Milan.
The puck has dropped at Santagiulia and the men's hockey tournament is under way with Slovakia facing Finland.
The arena is packed and the crowd is hot.
Slovakia seems to have the larger cheering section, but the vibes are high and the rink — which caused so much consternation over the last few months — is in great shape.
Can't say as much for the area around the rink, but hey, good enough!
In a testament to what's been a lost era of Olympic hockey…
You will have long time star NHL players with championships in players like Mikko Rantanen for Finland and Victor Hedman for Sweden who will be playing in their first Olympics.
It's go time on the ice of Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena between Finland and Slovakia.
Super Michael Charles will bring you updates from this one.
Jesper Wallstedt is one of four Minnesota Wild players representing Sweden, along with Filip Gustavsson, Joel Eriksson Ek, and Marcus Johansson at the Winter Olympics.
There are 10 players from the Wild organization in Milan.
That's not including U.S. general manager Bill Guerin, assistant coach John Hynes, director of player personnel Chris Kelleher, athletic trainers John Worley and Travis Green, and team doctor Joel Boyd.
So chances are some or many will be returning with shiny medals.
“It really is neat having so many of us here,” U.S. player Quinn Hughes said. “It says a lot about our team and maybe why we’ve been so good.”
The wait is finally over.
After 12 years and multiple hurdles, NHL players are set to return to the ice at the Winter Olympics in Milan today.
Nearly 150 total players from all 32 NHL teams will be taking part. Who are the most interesting names to watch? What are the biggest storylines for each team’s fan base at the Games?
The Athletic asked the NHL staff, and here’s what they said.
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