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Milan-Cortina Olympics: Day 10

2026 Winter Olympics Day 10 recap: Results, medal count and schedule

Live updates from the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Monday. Get the latest news, results, medal count, TV schedules and highlights from Italy.

Frankie del Duca, right, and Joshua Williamson of the U.S. compete in the two-man bobsled competition Monday.
(Alessandra Tarantino / Associated Press)

Winter Olympics TV schedule: Tuesday’s listings

U.S. forward Brady Tkachuk celebrates after scoring during a win over Denmark on Saturday.
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Tuesday’s live TV and streaming broadcasts for the Milan-Cortina Olympics unless noted (subject to change). All events stream live on Peacock or NBCOlympics.com with a streaming or cable login. All times Pacific. 🏅 — medal event for live broadcasts.

MULTIPLE SPORTS

8 p.m. — “Primetime in Milan” (delay): Figure skating, freestyle skiing, snowboarding, short track speedskating and more. | NBC

CURLING

Men (round robin)

12:05 a.m. — U.S. vs. China | Peacock

12:05 a.m. — Switzerland vs. Sweden | Peacock

Medal Count for Day 10 of the Milan-Cortina Games

Italy's Federica Brignone holds the gold medals she has won in women's super-G and giant slalom.
Italy’s Federica Brignone holds the gold medals she has won in women’s super-G and giant slalom at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
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Here’s where the medal count stands Monday at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games:

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Austria wins gold in first Olympic men’s super team ski jump

Gold medalists Stephan Embacher and Jan Hoerl, of Austria, pose on the podium after the ski jumping team competition.
Gold medalists Stephan Embacher and Jan Hoerl, of Austria, pose on the podium after the ski jumping super team competition at the Winter Olympics in Predazzo, Italy, on Monday.
(Evgeniy Maloletka / Associated Press)

PREDAZZO, Italy — A disappointing Olympics for Austria’s ski jumpers turned to gold Monday on the final night of competition in the debut of the men’s super team ski jump at the Milan Cortina Games.

Jan Hoerl and Olympic rookie Stephan Embacher led through the event before a snow squall forced the cancellation of the final round of the event.

Poland took silver and Norway won bronze.

The result was redemption for Austria, which won the men’s team event in Beijing in 2022, but had not reached the podium in this Olympics.

“The last 10 days were hard for our team so it was the last chance today,” said Hoerl, who was part of the 2022 winning team. “We knew that, so we kept focused and we were able to enjoy five good jumps. It’s amazing, unbelievable.”

Hoerl’s best individual finish had been a fifth on the men’s large hill and Embacher’s had been a pair of seventh place finishes on each hill. Both had also been on the mixed team that finished fifth.

The new format replaced the former four-man team contest on the large hill with teams of two. Seventeen nations jumped in the first round and the top 12 made the second round. The best eight moved on to the final.

But as heavy snow and wind held up competition with only a few skiers left to make their final jump, the round was canceled and the second round standings determined the winners.

Sandro Pertile, race director for the international ski federation, said the heavy, wet snow was slowing speeds on the in-run and the shift in winds was going to create unfair conditions for the remaining competitors.

Hoerl opened with a 137.5-meter (451-foot) jump and Embacher in the second round landed a 139-meter (456-foot) jump, the longest in the contest.

“My first time and to be Olympic champion is unbelievable,” Embacher said. “It was a great day.”

Austria led Slovenia, Poland, Germany and Japan after the first round. Poland moved into second and Norway into third as Slovenia slid into fifth place after the second round.

The result delivered a third medal for Poland’s Kacper Tomasiak, a rookie in his first year on the World Cup circuit, who has been the surprise of men’s Olympic ski jumping, winning a silver on the normal hill and a bronze on the large hill. He was paired with Pawel Wasek, whose best Olympic finish had been sixth in a team event in 2022.

“We are very happy, but I think we still can’t believe that it happened,” Tomasiak said.

Norway’s Johann André Forfang, who had won gold on the large hill and silver on the normal hill in Pyeongchang in 2018 but had not had a good Olympics before Monday was paired with Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal, who won silver in the mixed team event.

Forfang was suspended last year in a jumpsuit-tampering scandal that brought shame to the country that invented the sport.

Forfang and teammate Marius Lindvik were suspended for three months last year after their coaches and a staff member were caught on camera adding stitching to stiffen the crotch area to help the athletes fly farther.

Neither Lindvik nor Forfang was charged with knowing about the manipulation, but FIS said they “should have checked and asked questions about the nighttime adjustments.”

The team leaders involved were recently banned from the sport for 18 months.

Going into the final round, only a few points separated Germany, Slovenia and Japan from a medal.

Japan’s Ren Nikaido, who has won a medal in every ski jump at this Olympics, landed a third jump of 138 meters, which could have put Japan on the podium had the final round not been canceled before Ryoyu Kobayashi’s final jump.

Slovenia’s Domen Prevc, the dominant skier this season, was one of the few jumpers to fly in the heavy snow, with a poor result of 124.5 meters.

Germany’s Philipp Raimund, who won gold on the normal hill, then flew 136 meters through the snow, putting his country in the lead with four jumpers — all with higher second-round scores — remaining.

Tomasiak was the last skier to fly through the flakes, coming up short and putting Poland in third behind Slovenia.

Norway, Japan and Austria’s final skiers were left at the top of the hill when the event was ended.

Raimund said it was sad ending up in fourth place.

The result meant Prevc could not add to the gold medals he won on the men’s large hill and in the mixed team competition in his first Olympics — or to his family’s famous collection. He blamed his team’s finish on the poor landing of his second jump.

“It was almost third place, but overall it is a bit sour for me,” Prevc said. “Unfortunately, we have to take this as it is.”

He said canceling the round, though, was the right decision.

The U.S. team of Kevin Bickner and Tate Frantz made it to the final round but ended up in eighth place.

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara win Japan’s first Olympic pairs gold

Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara pose with their gold medals after winning the pair free skating final.
Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara pose with their gold medals after winning the pair free skating final at the Winter Olympics in Milan on Monday.
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MILAN — Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara thought their chances of Olympic gold had gone by the wayside when the Japanese skaters made an uncharacteristic slip-up during their short program at the Milan Cortina Games.

Turns out they were just making it more dramatic.

The two-time defending world champions rebounded Monday night with a world-record free skate under the current scoring system, lifting them from fifth place all the way to the top step of the podium and their country’s first Olympic medal in the pairs event.

Miura and Kihara dropped to their knees in a tearful embrace when they realized they had won gold.

“My main message to them today was be the best in the world. Don’t worry about yesterday,” said their longtime coach, Bruno Marcotte. “I told them that it wasn’t over. Before they went out on the ice, I just said, ‘Be yourself.’”

They were the best version of it.

Miura and Kihara scored 158.13 points for the free skate and a career-best 231.24 overall, earning a gold medal to go with the silver they helped the Japanese team win last week. Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava earned the first medal for Georgia at a Winter Games with their silver, and Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany took bronze.

“It’s an amazing moment for my country,” Berulava said. “I’m in shock.”

Hase and Volodin, who led after the short program, made several mistakes in their free skate and slid to third. But rather than dwell on failing to win the gold medal, Hase chose to look at the positives: “We won an Olympic medal. It doesn’t suck,” she said.

“It’s a medal at the Olympics. I don’t think it matters the color,” Hase added. “A bronze medal in our first Olympics is amazing.”

The chaotic short program on Sunday night had left some of the best in the world skating early and out of contention.

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, the 2024 world champions from Canada, cost themselves about 10 points when she inexplicably fell while getting down from a lift. Stellato-Dudek also took a hard fall during their warmup for the free skate on Monday night, sliding into one of the padded barriers and then flexing her shoulder when she got back up.

The 42-year-old Stellato-Dudek, who was born in the Chicago area, was undoubtedly envisioning a much different Olympic debut. The Canadian pair wound up with 192.61 points, putting them 11th among the 16 teams that made the free skate.

“Just to be out here on and skating on the ice was a privilege and really amazing,” Deschamps said.

Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe, a private first class in the U.S. Army, took the lead by becoming the first team to break the 200-point barrier. Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii of Italy quickly knocked them from their perch despite a messy free skate.

But the podium contenders were just starting to take the ice.

Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, the defending Olympic champions, bounced back from Sui’s fall on their opening triple loop in their short program that left them in sixth place. They still had problems in their free skate, turning a triple salchow into a double, but their score of 208.64 points put in them in first place with five pairs left to go; they finished fifth.

It wasn’t a bad showing by Sui and Han, given they only began a comeback last June following a two-year retirement.

“For me, this is my last Olympics,” Han said afterward.

Miura and Kihara were next up — and they produced a score that proved impossible to beat.

They were flawless on a triple toe-double axel-double axel sequence to start their program, set to music from the “Gladiator” films, while Miura landed with grace and elegance on their throw triple loop. And as other teams struggled with their salchows, Miura and Kihara’s were clean, with their throw triple loop putting an exclamation mark on the program.

Kihara was emotionless after their short program, but he erupted with a roar when their free skate score was announced.

Then he quietly dropped to his knees and hugged Miura when he learned they had won gold.

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Eileen Gu wins silver in big air, clinching her fifth Olympic medal

Silver medalist China's Eileen Gu celebrates with fans after the freestyle skiing big air finals in Livigno, Italy.
Silver medalist China’s Eileen Gu celebrates with fans after the freestyle skiing big air finals in Livigno, Italy, on Monday.
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Eileen Gu last competed in a big air contest four years ago. She learned the trick that helped her reach the medals stand Monday night four days ago. Then, in a frenzied training session before the snowy Olympic final, she tried an even bigger trick, but hit her head on the landing and cracked her helmet.

Given all that, finishing second, a mere 1.75 points behind Canada’s Megan Oldham, felt like a victory, not a loss for the sport’s best-known star. Given all that, picking up a fifth medal in the five events she has entered over two Winter Olympics felt like a time to celebrate, not think about what might have been.

“‘Five-time Olympic medalist’ kind of has a nice ring to it,” Gu said.

While Gu has two silvers at these Olympics — one in slopestyle and the latest in big air — Oldham, the 24-year-old from Parry Sound, Ontario, has a bronze and a gold.

Egged on by her older brother, Bruce, who is also a pro freeskier, Oldham traded in gymnastics and figure skating a handful of years ago to start catapulting herself off mountains. The other sports taught her a lot about “air awareness, and spinning in general,” she said.

It also took her from a pair of dangerous sports to one that borders on death-defying. In this Olympic big air contest, the adrenaline junkies have to ride an actual elevator to the top of a scaffolding on which sits a man-made hill 165 feet in the air.

“A brutal sport,” Oldham called it. “A lot of times when you’re learning these new tricks, you can fall pretty hard.”

She suffered a concussion in December and said she felt pressure, not knowing if she could make it back in time for the Olympics.

“Just coming back from that alone, I’m pretty proud of myself,” Oldham said.

So was bronze medalist Flora Tabanelli, who took bronze for Italy’s 23rd medal of the Games. She’s four months removed from a torn ACL. She decided to compete in a brace instead of opting for season-ending surgery.

“Three months ago, after the injury, I thought I wouldn’t make it here,” she said. “When I arrived here and said to myself, ‘I feel pretty good,’ it was already a win.”

Gu brought friends with her, and suddenly found herself in medal contention

Gu, naturally, came to Italy with better name recognition and higher expectations than anyone else in the snowpark.

After her first jump, a 1440-degree whirl that put her in medal contention, she ran to the stands to celebrate. She had friends from college and from junior high who took advantage of the three-day weekend in the United States to come watch.

She’s the sport’s only three-event athlete. So, over the past few years, something had to give between all the skiing, Stanford University, modeling and globe-trotting between her native U.S. and her mom’s home country of China, the country she competes for. That one thing was big air.

She had not been on an entry sheet for the sport’s highest-flying discipline since the day she left Beijing four years ago with the first of two gold medals in tow.

“If you’d asked me four days ago and said, ‘What tricks are you going to do in the final?’ I’d be, like, ‘I’m in the final?’” she said.

During warmups for the final, she crashed while trying a 1620-degree spin, the likes of which won her that gold.

She was fortunate that a near blizzard rushed through the snowpark shortly after, delaying the start by 75 minutes and giving her a chance to rest in a dark room. The contest itself was held under a moderate snow (which can slow down the run) and no wind.

“I really needed those ... minutes,” she said. “I don’t think the outcome would’ve been the same, to be honest with you.”

Oldham celebrates, but for Gu, it’s time for halfpipe practice

Oldham’s victory came on her other brother, Cody’s, 18th birthday. “He can celebrate with us,” she said.

For Gu, there was no time for rest.

She hasn’t skied halfpipe since December. She was frustrated to have missed one of the three halfpipe training sessions the rest of the skiers are getting for a qualifying round that starts Thursday. She now has two days to make up for lost time. Halfpipe is maybe her best event — it’s where she’s captured 15 of her record-setting 20 World Cup wins.

“I think it was Kobe (Bryant) who said the greatest athletes have the shortest memories, and I try to follow that,” Gu said. “I am in goldfish mode, I finish this and go straight into the next.”

As for the notion that she has anything left to prove — or anything to be disappointed about after picking up another silver medal, which gives her more Olympic medals than any woman in the history of freestyle skiing — she let loose a chortle.

“Winning a medal in the Olympics is a life-changing experience, and doing it five times is exponentially hard,” she said. “The ‘two medals lost’ perspective is ridiculous to take. I am showcasing my best skiing and doing things that have never been done before, so that is more than enough.”

‘Blade Angels’ stay calm amid Olympic chaos while trying to end U.S. medal drought

American ice skaters Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, Isabeau Levito, and Bradie Tennell pose for a photo.
ST LOUIS, MISSOURI - JANUARY 09: Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, Isabeau Levito, and Bradie Tennell pose for a photo during the Victory Ceremony after competing in the Championship Women’s competition during the 2026 United States Figure Skating Championships at Enterprise Center on January 09, 2026 in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
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After a one-hour on-ice training session and on the way to yet another interview, Isabeau Levito has one big problem on her mind.

One of the plants in the U.S. figure skater’s room has started growing mold. She needs to figure out how to wrangle it.

American bobsled star Elana Meyers Taylor defies age, wins her first Olympic gold medal

Elana Meyers Taylor waves the American flag and celebrates after winning the women's monobob competition.
American Elana Meyers Taylor waves the flag after winning the women’s monobob competition at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on Monday.
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It’s all downhill after 40.

Downhill at screaming speeds, that is, fast enough to capture Olympic gold, which is precisely what 41-year-old Elana Meyers Taylor did Monday night in the women’s monobob.

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‘The best team in the world.’ U.S. women’s hockey routs Sweden, reaches gold-medal game

U.S. players celebrate after defeating Sweden 5-0 in the Milan-Cortina Olympic women's hockey semifinals.
U.S. players celebrate after defeating Sweden 5-0 in the Milan-Cortina Olympic women’s hockey semifinals Monday to advance to the gold-medal game.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

For the U.S. women’s hockey team, the Milan-Cortina Olympic tournament has been less a competition and more a siege.

With Monday’s 5-0 semifinal victory over Sweden, the U.S. is unbeaten in six games, has outscored its opposition 31-1 and hasn’t given up a goal since the second period of its first game, running its scoreless streak to more than 331 minutes, the longest in tournament history.

“The best team in the world,” Sweden’s Hanna Olsson said. “They are really good.”

Nobody was arguing with that assessment because the Olympics have been more one-sided than an avalanche for the U.S.. Fifteen different Americans have scored, 11 have multiple goals. The U.S. has scored at least five times in each of its six games, scored at least one goal in 16 of the 18 periods it has played and has never trailed.

Canadian cheating controversy clouds curling

Rachel Homan of Canada competes against Switzerland in curling.
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No doubt the U.S. has been coming up short at some of these Olympic events. Two solid golds from figure skater Ilia Malinin and snowboarder Chloe Kim went to the trash after both failed to make the top of the medal stand. Kim at least got a silver while Malinin finished eighth in the event he was supposed to dominate.

On Sunday, the U.S. did what seems inconceivable — didn’t win one medal of any color.

There is seemingly no way the U.S. can catch Norway in gold medals. The U.S. hasn’t been on top with golds since, well, 1932, the only time the U.S. has won the gold total. In fact, on Saturday, FanDuel listed Norway at -1500 for winning the most golds and the U.S at +270. That means to win $100 on Norway, you have to put up $1,500. Or, if you bet $100 on the U.S., you could win $270. This wagering opportunity wasn’t available online on Sunday afternoon, meaning it may be so lopsided it was taken off the board.

Swiss bobsledder’s courageous cancer fight a reminder of how quickly life can change

Michelle Gloor is attending the Milan-Cortina Olympics to support her boyfriend, a driver for a two-man Swiss bobsled team.
Michelle Gloor, an aspiring Olympic bobsledder, is attending the Milan-Cortina Games to support her fiancé, a driver for a two-man Swiss bobsled team. Gloor’s hopes of competing in the Olympics were put on hold when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
(Sam Farmer / Los Angeles Times)

World-class athletes, thrilling events, stirring medal ceremonies, I will remember all of those from the Winter Olympics. But what I experienced Sunday on my 45-minute bus ride from my hotel to Cortina will stay with me longer.

There was a young woman sitting across the aisle. She looked to be in her mid-20s, about the age of my daughter, and was wearing a knit cap with a Switzerland logo. Her dark hair was in long, thin braids and framed her friendly face.

“How’s it going?” I asked, setting down my backpack.

“Nervous,” she said with a faint smile.

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Norwegian skier goes way off-course after losing out on gold

Norway's Atle Lie McGrath walks off the course after being disqualified in men's slalom at the Olympic Games on Monday.
(John Locher / Associated Press)

BORMIO, Italy — Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath saw his gold-medal hopes slip away in the Olympic slalom and decided to send his ski poles sailing along with them.

He tossed each pole over the netting, then climbed the fencing on the side of the Stelvio course to begin his long walk toward the wilderness. It was part of an Olympic meltdown that turned the men’s slalom into high-tragic theater Monday.

As the first-run leader, McGrath was the last to go among the top 30 racers. He had a medal within his sights — until he straddled a gate and was out. He lost a medal and then control of his emotions in a race won by Loic Meillard of Switzerland.

Once McGrath reached the forest, he sat down in the snow and then fell back, breathing heavily. A medical person came over to check on him.

Norway's Atle Lie McGrath lies on the snow after failing to finish his final run in men's slalom on Monday.
(John Locher / Associated Press)

McGrath later arrived in the finish area and walked away without talking.

“It’s just heartbreaking,” said his teammate, Timon Haugan, who finished fourth. “He’s doing everything perfect. He did a very good first run, put himself in a position to win the Olympic gold. He does everything right and then that happens in 15 seconds.”

McGrath has been racing with a heavy heart, with his grandfather dying the day of the opening ceremony. McGrath wore an armband as a tribute.

“What he’s gone through these last 10, 12 days, it’s been really tough,” Haugan said. “He’s been really sad. He started to do better and today he’s going through ... we need to really back him up today.”

Graham writes for the Associated Press.

Loic Meillard of Switzerland wins gold in men’s slalom

Switzerland's Loic Meillard competes in slalom at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games on Monday.
(John Locher / Associated Press)

BORMIO, Italy — Loic Meillard of Switzerland used a strong second run to win the men’s slalom Monday on a day that saw Brazilian ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen fall in the first run, ending his bid for another Olympic gold.

The event closes out the men’s Alpine program at the Milan-Cortina Games.

Meillard adds gold to a silver he won in the team combined and bronze from the giant slalom.

Meillard finished in a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 53.61 seconds. He edged Fabio Gstrein of Austria by 0.35 seconds, while Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway took bronze. It was quite a contrast of runs, too, with snow and fog in the morning and the sun peeking out for the afternoon.

Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath, the first run leader, straddled a gate and was out. He was so irate that he threw his ski poles over the netting on one side. He then went outside the netting on the other side, trudging along the snow. He sat down, breathing heavily.

Pinheiro Braathen made history by winning the giant slalom Saturday, becoming the first athlete from South America to win a medal at a Winter Olympics. But his ski slipped out on a fast first run and his bid for another medal was over.

Graham writes for the Associated Press.

Kevin Fiala injury could force Kings to make another big move before trade deadline

Switzerland's Kevin Fiala shoots during a game against France on Feb. 12.
Switzerland’s Kevin Fiala shoots during a game against France on Feb. 12. Fiala’s season-ending injury at the Olympics is a blow to the Kings’ playoff push.
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Drew Doughty had a day off Monday and planned to spend part of it visiting with NHL teammate Kevin Fiala. But he hadn’t planned on having to go to the hospital to do that.

Fiala, who is third on the Kings in goals, points and assists, underwent surgery over the weekend to repair multiple fractures in his lower left leg and will miss the rest of the season. Fiala was playing for Switzerland against Doughty and Canada in the Milan-Cortina Olympic hockey tournament Friday when he backed into a hit by Washington Capitals’ forward Tom Wilson along the side boards with less than three minutes left in Canada’s 5-1 win.

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Ilia Malinin hints at ‘inevitable crash’ amid pressure and online hate

U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin falls during his free skate at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Friday.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

MILAN — Ilia Malinin posted a video on social media Monday juxtaposing images of his many triumphs with a black-and-white image of the U.S. figure skater with his head buried in his hands, and a caption hinting at an “inevitable crash” amid the pressure of the Olympics while teasing that a “version of the story” is coming on Saturday.

That is when Malinin is expected to skate in the traditional exhibition gala to wrap up the Olympic figure skating program.

Malinin, who helped the U.S. clinch the team gold medal early in the Winter Games, was the heavy favorite to add another gold in the individual event. But he fell twice and struggled throughout his free skate on Friday, ending up in eighth.

He acknowledged afterward that the pressure of the Olympics had worn him down, saying: “I didn’t really know how to handle it.”

Malinin alluded again to the weight he felt while competing in Milan in the caption to his social media video.

“On the world’s biggest stage, those who appear the strongest may still be fighting invisible battles on the inside,” wrote the 21-year-old Malinin. “Even your happiest memories can end up tainted by the noise. Vile online hatred attacks the mind and fear lures it into the darkness, no matter how hard you try to stay sane through the endless insurmountable pressure. It all builds up as these moments flash before your eyes, resulting in an inevitable crash.”

Malinin, who is expected to chase a third consecutive world title next month in Prague, had been unbeaten in 14 events over more than two years. Yet while Malinin always seemed to exude a preternatural calm that belied his age, the son of Olympic skaters Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov had admitted early in the Winter Games that he was feeling the pressure.

The first time came after an uneven short program in the team event, when he finished behind Yuma Kagiyama of Japan — the eventual individual silver medalist. Malinin referenced the strain of the Olympics again after the Americans had won the team gold medal.

But he seemed to be the loose, confident Malinin that his fans had come to know after winning the individual short program. He even playfully faked that he was about to do a risky backflip on the carpeted runway during his free skate introduction.

The program got off to a good start with a quad lutz, but the problems began when he bailed out of his quad axel. He ended up falling twice later in the program, and the resulting score was his worst since the U.S. International Classic in September 2022.

Malinin was magnanimous afterward, hugging and congratulating surprise gold medalist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan. He then answered a barrage of questions from reporters with poise and maturity that few would have had in such a situation.

“The nerves just went, so overwhelming,” he said, “and especially going into that starting pose, I just felt like all the traumatic moments of my life really just started flooding my head. So many negative thoughts that flooded into there and I could not handle it.”

“All I know is that it wasn’t my best skate,” Malinin added later, “and it was definitely something I wasn’t expecting. And it’s done, so I can’t go back and change it, even though I would love to.”

Skretta writes for the Associated Press.

After years of trauma, Amber Glenn and other U.S. stars are grateful skating is changing

American Amber Glenn competes during the figure skating women's team event at the Winter Olympics in Milan on Feb. 8.
(Stephanie Scarbrough / Associated Press)

Amber Glenn thought her chance for the Olympics was already gone. She was 9.

“I wasn’t always considered one of the top,” Glenn said, “so I never thought that I’d be skating past, like, 20 years old or something because you don’t usually see that.”

The 26-year-old, who is making her Olympic debut, jokes that she’s “a dinosaur” in women’s singles skating. But as women’s figure skating opens a new era with a minimum age limit of 17, 20-something champions could soon become common again.

Netherlands’ Xandra Velzeboer wins another gold short track speedskating

Xandra Velzeboer of the Netherlands wins gold in the women's 1,000 meters in short track speedskating Monday.
(Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press)

MILAN — Dutch star Xandra Velzeboer won the 1,000 meters gold medal in women’s short track speedskating on Monday, four days after topping the podium in the 500 at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

Velzeboer finished first in the final in 1 minute, 28.437 seconds, with Canada’s Courtney Sarault in second for the silver medal followed by South Korea’s Kim Gilli, who took bronze.

“These Olympics are a dream,” Velzeboer said.

Home favorite Arianna Fontana, in her sixth Games and owner of 13 Olympic medals in her career, was fourth.

Velzeboer passed Sarault with three laps to go and held off challenges, sticking her right skate over the line and raising both arms aloft.

A smiling Velzeboer then high-fived teammates as she took a victory lap and lifted both hands up to her helmet as if in disbelief.

The 24-year-old Velzeboer said she felt confident and loose thanks to her gold medal last week.

“Before the race I was already feeling like I can do this,” she said. “I had a lot of confidence from the 500.”

The 35-year-old Fontana said she was building speed to make a move when she was bumped by China’s Gong Li with a few laps to go.

“I was right in the moment when the Chinese skater hit me. I was ready to go in the front. I knew I was going to be able to find myself in first position at that moment,” Fontana said. “It didn’t happen, and what upsets me is I didn’t have a chance to fight for a medal. It’s upsetting.”

U.S. skater Kristen Santos-Griswold was looking for redemption at these Games but couldn’t get out of the quarterfinals. Four years ago at the Beijing Olympics, she was leading the 1,000 meters final before crashing when Fontana cut inside. The Connecticut native was the 2024 world champion at 1,000 meters.

Canada’s Kim Boutin, the 1,000 meters silver medalist at the 2018 Games, also failed to advance from the quarterfinals.

Maguire writes for the Associated Press.

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Airbags, blue lines and good underwear: 6 features of Olympic skiing you should know

Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen speeds down the course en route to winning gold in the men's giant slalom.
Brazil’s Lucas Pinheiro Braathen speeds down the course en route to winning gold in the men’s giant slalom at the Winter Olympics on Saturday.
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Freezing cold speed suits, sleek airbags and cut-resistent underwear. There’s more to Olympic ski racing than meets the eye.

A look at some of the procedures, methods and equipment you might not know about when you tune in:

What are those blue lines on the course?

U.S. skier Breezy Johnson competes in Alpine downhill at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Feb. 8.
U.S. skier Breezy Johnson competes in Alpine downhill at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Feb. 8. Johnson won gold in the event.
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Those blue dye lines were introduced in 2001 on the World Cup tour to help racers — particularly in the speed events of downhill and super-G — navigate courses at high speed, especially in poor visibility. The skier has no obligation to stay within the blue borders, but the markings help them determine the best line down the hill.

The power of teamwork: Inside U.S. figure skating’s new Olympic golden age

Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito pose for a portrait.
U.S. figure skaters (from left) Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito will join forces in the Olympic team competition, where the U.S. is a clear favorite.
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Amber Glenn achieved a lifelong goal, sealing her Olympic bid by winning her third consecutive U.S. championship last month. Her first celebration came with her opponents.

“We all deserve it,” Glenn said with her arms wrapped around national silver medalist Alysa Liu and bronze medalist Isabeau Levito.

The spirit of collaboration has brought U.S. figure skating into a new golden age. The 16-athlete team the United States sent to Milan may be the country’s strongest Olympic team in decades. With three reigning world champions and three current Grand Prix final champions, the United States is poised for one of its best Olympic Games in figure skating.

Picabo Street gave Lindsey Vonn her gloves, but still ‘cried all night’ before fateful race

U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn wears Picabo Street's gloves as she prepares to leave the starting gate.
U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn wears Picabo Street’s gloves as she prepares to leave the starting gate during the women’s downhill at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games on Feb. 8.
(Screenshot courtesy of NBC)

There’s a lot of love in those gloves.

Before her fateful downhill run Sunday — one that ended with a violent crash after 13 seconds — Lindsey Vonn pulled on a pair of out-of-production gloves from her childhood skiing idol, Picabo Street.

The gloves are weathered and white, their brightness dulled by the decades, with the brand name “reusch” across the knuckles and a big, plum-colored sun on top. On the wrist straps are Street’s initials, scrawled in marker.

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Caribbean sprinters are hoping to transform Winter Olympic bobsledding

A bobsled on a training run.
Axel Brown and De Aundre John of Trinidad and Tobago take part in a two-man bobsled training run Friday at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
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Axel Brown, the pilot of Trinidad and Tobago’s bobsled team, came to the Milan-Cortina Winter Games with a simple goal.

“Just don’t come last,” he said. “We know that there is a 0% chance of us contending for medals. It doesn’t matter if we have the absolute best day we’ve ever had.

“That’s just the reality of it. It’s not defeatist, it’s not negative. It’s just being realistic.”

IOC moves closer to reinstating Russia by LA28, but backlash may put its return on ice

Ukraine athletes wave their national flag and wave to fans during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Feb. 6.
Ukraine athletes wave their national flag and wave to fans during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Feb. 6 in Milan.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Leaders of the International Olympic Committee appear ready to lift suspensions of Russia and Belarus, clearing the way for athletes from those countries to return to major international competitions perhaps as early as the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

But those plans may have hit a snag last week with the international show of support for Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych, who was disqualified from the Milan-Cortina Games for refusing to compete without a helmet featuring images of people killed following the Russian invasion of his country.

U.S. men’s hockey rolls past Germany, closes Winter Olympics group play unbeaten

American Vincent Trocheck and German Jonas Muller compete for the puck during the first period of the U.S. win.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

With NHL stars back in the Winter Olympics for the first time in 12 years, organizers of the Milan-Cortina hockey tournament have seemingly done everything they can to make the players feel at home.

A horn blast marks goals and the end of each period, an NHL tradition since the 1970s; foreboding organ music plays whenever a player is banished to the penalty box; and the songs used during breaks in play lean heavily toward American artists such as Dean Martin, Neil Diamond and the Black Eyed Peas.

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Medal winners at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics

Britain's Tabitha Stoecker, left, and Matt Weston celebrate after winning gold.
Britain’s Tabitha Stoecker, left, and Matt Weston celebrate after winning gold in mixed team skeleton Sunday at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games.
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Here are the athletes who’ve won medals heading into Day 10 of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics:

Winter Olympics TV schedule: Monday’s listings

United States' Frankie del Duca, left, slides down the track during a two man.
U.S. bobsledder Frankie del Duca takes part in a two-man bobsled training session Saturday at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games.
(Aijaz Rahi / Associated Press)

Monday’s live TV and streaming broadcasts for the Milan-Cortina Olympics unless noted (subject to change). All events stream live on Peacock or NBCOlympics.com with a streaming or cable login. All times Pacific. 🏅 — medal event for live broadcasts.

MULTIPLE SPORTS

8 p.m. — “Primetime in Milan” (delay): Figure skating, skiing, bobsled, short track speedskating and more. | NBC

ALPINE SKIING

1 a.m. — Men’s slalom, Run 1 | USA

4:20 a.m. — 🏅Men’s slalom, Run 2 | Peacock

Looking back at first nine days of the Milan-Cortina Olympics

The first nine days of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games offered plenty of memorable achievements.

Here’s our daily recaps from the 2026 Winter Games:

Recapping what happened at the from the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Sunday. Get the latest news, results, medal count, TV schedules and highlights from Italy.

Recapping Day 8 of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Jordan Stolz won another speedskating gold medal and South American won its first medal ever in the Winter Games.

Live updates from the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Friday. Get the latest news, results, medal count, TV schedules and highlights from Italy.

Recapping Day 6 of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, which saw a historic Olympic debut and Chloe Kim taking silver in halfpipe snowboard.

Recapping what happened on Day 5 of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, with Jordan Stolz winning his first speedskating gold medal and the U.S. finishing 1-2 in women’s moguls.

Live updates from the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Tuesday. Get the latest news, results, medal count, TV schedules and highlights from Italy.

Recapping an eventful opening weekend to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.

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