2026 Winter Olympics Day 11 recap: Results, medal count, schedule

Wednesday’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): Alpine skiing, short track speedskating, cross-country-skiing, freestyle skiing and more. | NBC

ALPINE SKIING

1 a.m. — Women’s slalom, Run 1 | USA

4:20 a.m. — 🏅Women’s slalom, Run 2 | USA

MILAN — She’s the only U.S. skater still in medal contention. Alysa Liu is the last person to care.

The unbothered 20-year-old is the only American who finished in the top six of the women’s short program Tuesday and is holding the weight of an Olympic medal drought that’s as old as she is. But after placing third in the short program, she said she hadn’t even looked at the standings. She is angling more for an invitation to the post-competition gala than a medal.

“A medal?” Liu asked with a sarcastic scoff and giggle. “I don’t need a medal. I just need to be here, and I just need to be present. And I need people to see what I do next.”

LIVIGNO, Italy — The difference between silver and gold in Olympic men’s big air was a matter of who did a trick called a “nose butter” better.

The fact anyone can do it at all was only one of the amazing things to come out of a contest that will be long remembered by anyone who saw it.

Tormod Frostad of Norway edged out Mac Forehand of the United States by 2.25 points in Tuesday’s final with the scores approaching the maximum of 200 points each. Frostad did so by nailing the nose butter — but with a physics-defying twist of his own — on all three of his jumps of a snowy freeskiing nail-biter on the big hill Tuesday night.

The 24-year-old Forehand’s reaction after such a narrow loss?

“I’m happy to walk away alive from that event,” he said. “It was super heavy, people are going crazy and this is a really dangerous sport. I’m just happy to ski away and be OK, and (to do so) with the silver medal is pretty cool as well.”

Frostad had the lead through most of the 12-man final after nailing two massive jumps. But Forehand flipped a thrilling competition on its head when he moved ahead of Frostad on the second-to-last jump of the night.

That turned what had been looking like a victory lap for Frostad into the most pressure-filled leap of his career.

But the 23-year-old Norwegian pulled out another flawlessly executed effort to secure his first gold medal in his second Games.

Frostad finished with 195.50 points to Forehand’s 193.25.

His key to facing the moment? Not really caring what happened next.

“Yeah, I didn’t really didn’t care because I was already super happy and I could ski the last run with joy in my body and just deliver a fun trick,” Frostad said.

While Forehand performed incredibly difficult tricks that focused on spins and flips, including a last one he had never landed and only recently “joked about,” Frostad did something more: He took the sport in a new direction. Literally.

Instead of vaulting off the jump that’s built to send skiers hurtling backward, Frostad defied physics and spun forward off that ramp.

One of those tricks was something nobody had seen before on a big air jump. That, in essence, is the core concept of these sports — “progression,” the drive for each generation, each skier to develop a new twist, a new turn, a new something to take the sport that much further.

“That’s the hard part about my trick,” Frostad said. “And to get into that axis is really, you got to be super precise, and the judges are aware of that, and that’s why they scored me great.”

Great? They ate it up and gave him scores of 95.25, 97 and then a gold-clinching 98.50 on his last jump when it was all down to him or Forehand for the gold.

Sensing he was part of a history-making night, American Konnor Ralph tried a triple-cork 2160 — that’s six full spins — for the first time ever. He landed it and finished fifth, one spot behind teammate Troy Podmilsak in what was the best overall performance by the U.S. in the snowpark events (freeskiing and snowboarding) at these Olympics.

“Even though I knew I needed a 115 to win, I figured, ‘Whatever, you’ve got to go for it, it’s the Olympics,’” Ralph said.

But this night wasn’t just about spinning the most.

“Tormod today was doing two tricks that have ever been done before and it’s less rotations but the takeoffs are so proper and so cool and different and he’s totally deserved that win,” Forehand said. “It’s not all about the rotations in our sport, it’s about the style, the creativity.”

Birk Ruud, the 2022 gold medalist who finished eighth after two crashes, agreed that Frostad had won because he had done the unexpected.

“Torm had those aces with the ‘butter double bio,’” Ruud said.

“No matter what tricks would come” after that, nobody could better Frostad, Ruud said. “So that means the progression is not just in the spinning.”

Frostad and Forehand both said that they would have been happy with any color of medal after participated in what they agreed was a final for the ages — one frosted by a steady snow that did nothing to slow down the 12 finalists.

“I mean, shoutout to everyone. They killed it,” Frostad said. “We all did amazing and even though the conditions were quite challenging, it ended up being like probably one of the greatest events ever.”

MILAN — Italy’s Davide Ghiotto, Andrea Giovannini and Michele Malfatti beat U.S. world record-holders Casey Dawson, Emery Lehman and Ethan Cepuran by 4½ seconds to win the men’s team pursuit gold medal in speedskating at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Tuesday.

Canada collected its second consecutive Winter Games title in women’s team pursuit when Ivanie Blondin, Valerie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann — the same athletes who won gold four years ago in Beijing — finished in 2:55.81, nearly a full second ahead of runner-up Netherlands.

Buoyed by raucous cheering from the home crowd at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium, the Italian men finished in 3 minutes, 39.20 seconds to give their country its first Olympic title in this event since the 2006 Turin Games.

The United States started the final well and led for the early stages. But the Italians charged ahead over the closing laps, extending their advantage. When it ended, Ghiotto, Giovannini and Malfatti raised their arms and pumped their fists. On the opposite side of the track, silver medalists Dawson, Lehman and Cepuran leaned over, hands on knees.

This was was supposed to be, the Americans hoped, the crowning achievement for a trio that set the current world mark in November and took home a bronze from the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Dawson, Lehman and Cepuran are fond of saying that they might not necessarily be the three strongest skaters, but they know they are the best team around, helped by advancements such as being at the forefront of the revolutionary switch to the pushing method and the use of computer technology to study aerodynamics.

They prioritize this event over individual races; indeed, Dawson withdrew from the Olympic 10,000 meters last week to focus on team pursuit.

Fendrich writes for the Associated Press.

ANTERSELVA, Italy — France went from last place on the first leg to being first on the last lap to secure the country’s first Olympic gold medal in men’s biathlon relay on Tuesday at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games, upsetting defending champion Norway, while Sweden was able to hang on for the bronze.

World Cup champion Eric Perrot, skiing the final leg for France, missed two shots in his last standing shooting bout and was only seven seconds ahead of Norway’s Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen as they headed out to ski tracks packed with fresh snow.

Perrot stayed ahead of Christiansen and took his team of Fabien Claude, Emilien Jacquelin and Quentin Fillon Maillet across the line first, for a total time of one hour, 19 minutes and 55.2 seconds. Christiansen finished 9.8 seconds back for silver and Sebastian Samuelsson was 57.5 seconds behind France for the bronze.

Christiansen had skied the fourth leg for the Norway team consisting of Martin Uldal, Johan-Olav Botn and Sturla Holm Laegreid. Samuelsson was the anchor for Sweden’s team of Viktor Brandt, Jesper Nelin and Martin Ponsiluoma.

Germany came in fourth, 1:48.3 back while the United States secured fifth place, 2:27.4 behind the leaders.

Things didn’t look promising for France at the start.

The team was in a disappointing 20th place after the second shooting when Fabien Claude missed one target despite using three extra rounds and had to ski a penalty lap. He tagged off to Emilien Jacquelin, who moved the team up to fifth position with only one miss out of 10 shots and then to first place by the time he tagged off to Quentin Fillon Maillet.

Sweden, Norway and France stayed together on the tracks and the range, taking turns at the front. But when Norway and Sweden missed one on the prone shooting on the last leg, Perrot cleaned and left in first place. He maintained that position until the end.

Norway’s Laegreid said it was a disappointing result. They had finished ahead of France at the Beijing Winter Games.

“Today our eyes were set on gold,” he said. “To get silver is almost like losing gold.”

Bellisle writes for the Associated Press.

Here’s where the medal count stands Tuesday at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games:

MILAN — Leon Draisaitl and JJ Peterka scored in a three-goal first period and Germany beat France 5-1 on Tuesday to set up a quarterfinal game against Slovakia.

Frederik Tiffels added another when he scored unassisted from a tight angle by snapping a shot off the right side of Julian Junca’s mask and into the net in a dominant opening period for the Germans.

The Germans will face Slovakia on Wednesday.

Switzerland beat Italy 3-0, outshooting the host country 51-20.

New Jersey Devils captain Nico Hischier had a goal and two assists. Philipp Kurashev and Roman Josi had the other Swiss goals.

Switzerland next faces Finland.

Maguire and Whyno write for the Associated Press.

TESERO, Italy — Norway’s Jens Luraas Oftebro won his second Nordic combined gold medal at the Milan Cortina-Winter Games after the large hill ski jump and 10-kilometer ski race Tuesday.

Johannes Lamparter of Austria won his second silver and Ilkka Herola of Finland won bronze.

The event begins with a single ski jump in the morning where distance and style points are computed into a time advantage for the best jumper. The rest of the field starts the cross-country ski race behind the leader according to the ranking from their jump.

Japan’s Ryota Yamamoto got an eight-second head start over Lamparter after the ski jump and Norway’s Andreas Skoglund started 16 seconds back.

Oftebro, who won the normal hill event last week, started 22 seconds behind in fifth place. Herola started 32 seconds back in seventh place.

Niklas Malacinski was the highest-placed U.S. finisher in 13th.

Yamamoto finished 15th.

Nordic combined has been contested in every Winter Olympics since their start in 1924 and is the only event in the Games that excludes women. It faces possible elimination from the International Olympic Committee because it draws a small TV audience and a few nations dominate.

Melley and Gatopoulos write for the Associated Press.

Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated women’s bobsledder for the U.S., finally got her first gold to go with three silvers and two bronzes when she won the women’s monobob Monday. Teammate Kaillie Humphries, who won this event in Beijing, got the bronze.

It was a nice recovery for the U.S. after getting shut out of medals Sunday. The monobob is similar to the NASCAR Clash in which each vehicle, in this case a bobsled, is the same. So, it all comes down to the driver.

Other than that, the U.S. was off the board.

The fact the U.S. is not going to win the total gold count should not be a surprise. Norway is looking like the winner having taken the top total in four of the last six Winter Games.

MILAN — Cheating has been part of the Olympics since the ancient games, when violators were punished with fines, public flogging or lifetime bans.

This month’s Milan-Cortina Games have hardly been an exception.

Before the competition had even begun, a German magazine said unnamed ski jumpers were injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises in an effort to fly further. Officials dismissed that as a wild rumor but the World Anti-Doping Agency said it was willing to look into the matter just the same.

MILAN — The only new sport at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics has rustic roots.

Ski mountaineering, often referred to as “skimo,” combines two disciplines that have been around since people started strapping boards to their boots to schlep through the snow, both up and down hills as quickly and efficiently as possible.

The Olympic version is a fast-paced race that typically lasts three to four minutes. It’s a combination that consists of an ascent with skins — grippy, removable strips competitors use on the bottom of their skis — a section of steep terrain in which competitors carry their skis, and a final fast descent on a manicured, gate-marked slope featuring jumps, bumps and banked turns.

LIVIGNO, Italy — The Olympic final for women’s snowboarding slopestyle was scrubbed off Tuesday’s schedule because of a heavy snowstorm.

The slopestyle final was scheduled to start at 1 p.m. local time but organizers said it was called off. A new date for the final has not been announced.

It delays New Zealander Zoi Sadowski-Synnott’s attempt at a repeat. She qualified first on Sunday — an opening round that was moved up a day because of the storms rolling in.

Qualifying for freestyle aerials down the road from the snowpark in Livigno was also delayed. The men’s ski big air finals are also scheduled later on Tuesday.

On Monday night, the start of the women’s big air contest was delayed for more than an hour when a windy squall came through the course. Megan Oldham of Canada won and Eileen Gu finished second.

In slopestyle, snowboarders perform tricks on rails and jump off ramps. Heavy snow and wind can throw them off course or make the track too slow to ascend the run-ups to the jumps.

More than 4 inches (10 centimeters) of snow fell by midday Tuesday. The men’s slopestyle final is scheduled for Wednesday, when the forecast looks better.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — 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.

That started the conversation, one that would have me repeatedly wiping my eyes with my sleeve.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — 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. Johnson won gold in the event.

(Christophe Pallot / Agence Zoom / Getty Images)

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.

MILAN — 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.

IOC President Kirsty Coventry, in an address to the IOC Congress in Milan this month, signaled a more neutral approach toward Russia without ever mentioning the country.

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.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in an interview Monday that she does not want embattled mogul Casey Wasserman running the 2028 Summer Games.

Bass told CNN’s Dana Bash that it was “unfortunate” that the organizers of the Los Angeles Olympics are supporting Wasserman amid revelations that he exchanged flirty emails two decades ago with later-convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

MILAN — 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.

“That’s our task of the day,” Levito said Monday.

Nevermind that the biggest competition of her life was starting in about 24 hours.

Here are the athletes who’ve won medals heading into Tuesday at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics:

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

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