Olympic Games, Gold and Team USA
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Team USA secured its second medal with a gold in the team figure skating in Sunday’s final event. USA came out of Saturday’s Day 1 with a five-point lead, but entered Sunday’s men’s free skate — the final portion of the contest — tied with Japan in first place.
Breezy Johnson opened Team USA's medal account in the 2026 Winter Olympics, winning the women's downhill in alpine skiing.
If a torn ACL hasn’t stopped Lindsey Vonn’s pursuit of an Olympic gold medal at age 41, can the world's best skiers?
MILAN (AP) — This could turn out to be Italy’s best Winter Olympics ever after a record-breaking day on home snow and ice. The host nation picked up five medals on Sunday, the most Italy has ever won in a single day at the Winter Olympics.
Lindsey Vonn crashed out in the women’s downhill on Sunday and had to be airlifted off the mountain, coming short of her comeback campaign. Her teammate, Breezy Johnson, won Team USA’s first medal (a gold).
The American Breezy Johnson set the tone early. She was the sixth ski racer of the day to drop into the Olympia delle Tofane downhill course on Sunday, and after blazing from top to bottom in one minute and 36.10 seconds, set the fastest time of the day.
While the U.S. is on top of the overall Olympic medal count, it is not the country that dominates winter sports like the 2026 Milano Cortina Games in Italy.
The Swiss are breaking up their gold medal ski combination from worlds as the team event makes its Olympic debut Monday at the Milan Cortina Games.
The market value of Olympic medals has more than doubled since the 2024 Paris Games because of a surge in precious metal prices.
U.S. snowboarder Ollie Martin, making his Olympic debut at 17 years old, finished fourth in snowboarding big air.