CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — In some families, children are expected to attend the same college as their parents or root for mom or dad's favorite team.

In Azaria Hill's family, the children were encouraged to go to the Olympics. Not to watch, but to compete.

Hill's father, Virgil, a boxer, earned a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Games. Hill'...Read more

MILAN — She flipped her hair. She shrugged. She dusted her hands off.

Alysa Liu makes winning an Olympic gold medal look easy.

The 20-year-old became the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic singles title since 2002, electrifying the crowd at Milano Ice Skating Arena with her “MacArthur Park” program Thursday and overtaking Japanese ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Casey Wasserman faced more calls Wednesday to resign from his position leading the 2028 L.A. Olympics — the latest push to oust the embattled mogul in the aftermath of the recent Jeffrey Epstein files release.

During a gubernatorial forum in Sacramento, candidates were asked whether Wasserman should step down. Former ...Read more

MILAN — Even for Jordan Stolz, making history is not as easy as one, two, three.

The 21-year-old star's quest for a speedskating triple crown came up short in the 1,500-meter race Thursday as Stolz settled for silver behind China's Zhongyan Ning at the Milan-Cortina Games.

Ning set an Olympic record, blazing the oval at Milano Speed Skating ...Read more

MILAN — A gold medal that seemed firmly in the grasp of the U.S. women’s hockey team nearly slipped through its fingers in the final of the Milan-Cortina Games on Thursday, but the Americans rallied to win, 2-1, on Megan Keller’s goal just over four minutes into overtime.

Kristin O’Neill’s short-handed goal less than a minute into the...Read more

U.S. hockey star Hilary Knight got engaged to her girlfriend, American speedskater Brittany Bowe, and shared the news a day before the U.S. women’s hockey team is set to compete in the gold medal game.

Knight, 36, proposed to Bowe, 37, during the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. She shared an Instagram video of herself dropping to one knee with...Read more

MILAN — With less than eight minutes remaining in regulation, a line of Team Canada players stood on the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena next to their bench like their 41 million countryman frozen in shock.

Canada, the pre-tournament favorite, had just fallen behind Czechia a second time in the teams’ Milano Cortina Olympic Games ...Read more

MILAN — The U.S. men haven’t stood on the podium at the end of an Olympic hockey tournament in 16 years and haven’t played for a medal in 12.

In fact, it’s been so long since an American hockey team took home a prize from the Winter Games none of the players on this year’s team, the second youngest in the Milan-Cortina competition, ...Read more

So far, the American women’s hockey team has pulverized the field at the Olympics like a wrecking ball blasting through a house of cards. Team USA has been clinical, unrelenting and overwhelming.

“I think they just come at you in waves,” three-time Olympian and Eagan, Minn., native Natalie Darwitz said.

When the Frost’s Kendall Coyne ...Read more

MILAN — The U.S. men haven't stood on the podium at the end of an Olympic hockey tournament in 16 years and haven't played for a medal in 12.

In fact, it's been so long since an American hockey team took home a prize from the Winter Games none of the players on this year's team, the second youngest in the Milan-Cortina competition, had ...Read more

Lindsey Vonn has been through a lot over the last few weeks, even more than we previously knew.

The legendary U.S. ski racer revealed Wednesday that on the day after she crashed violently while competing at the Milan-Cortina Olympics, Vonn lost someone very close to her.

Her dog, Leo.

Vonn wrote in a lengthy Instagram post that Leo has joined...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — It was a day of grief and gratitude for Mikaela Shiffrin, the most decorated skier in history.

The world saw her win the women's slalom at the Milan-Cortina Games, wrap herself in an American flag, hold it high above her head and twirl in triumph.

And for good reason. Shiffrin won her first Olympic gold medal in ...Read more

MILAN —The medal wasn't what Amber Glenn wanted. When she botched the final jump of her otherwise faultless short program, it was the shattering of her dream that left Glenn more distraught than the score that dropped her to 13th place.

"I was devastated that I lost the happiness and the enjoyment that I wanted to have out there on the ice ...Read more

Sidney Crosby suffered a lower-body injury during Canada’s Olympic quarterfinal matchup with Czechia on Wednesday and was ruled out for the rest of the game.

He took at least two hits on one shift early in the second period. The first was a collision with Radko Gudas near the red line in which Crosby’s right leg appeared to bend awkwardly. ...Read more

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, ...Read more

MILAN — Only a few months ago, Ami Nakai, by her own admission, didn’t have skating in the 2026 Olympic Games on her radar.

Yet there was the Japanese 17-year-old leading a pair of world champions in the Milano Cortina Olympic Games women’s figure skating competition going into Tuesday’s free skate.

Nakai became only the fourth woman ...Read more

MILAN — Then there is one.

With three strong contenders for the podium in the women’s Olympic figure skating competition, the United States’ hopes now rest almost completely on Alysa Liu, who finished in third place in the short program on Tuesday.

The reigning world champion could end the United States’ 20-year Olympic medal drought ...Read more

Mac Forehand, a two-time Olympic freestyle skier who grew up in Fairfield, Conn., was disappointed with his results in the Olympic slopestyle competition last week.

But Tuesday, Forehand, 24, made up for that disappointment with a silver medal in the Big Air competition at the Livigno Snow Park in Italy.

Forehand scored 193.25 to finish second...Read more

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

The Milan-Cortina Games have hardly been an exception, although there have been no reports of public flogging.

These Olympics started with controversy when a report in the German newspaper Bild ...Read more