Jessie Diggins was hunched over, mouth gaping, arms pumping, as she raced against the clock down the stretch of the women’s 10-kilometer freestyle race on Thursday at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Tesero, Italy.

When the Afton, Minn., native crossed the finish line, she collapsed to the ground, cried out in pain and grabbed her right side, ...Read more

A Slovak fugitive on the run for 16 years was arrested at the Winter Olympics in Milan while hoping to watch the Slovakia men’s hockey team.

The suspect, identified only as a 44-year-old man, was detained Wednesday night before Slovakia’s first game, according to a Reuters report published Thursday.

Italian police said the man was wanted ...Read more

MILAN — The snowboarding superstar didn’t complete the Olympic three-peat, settling for silver in the women’s halfpipe on Thursday at Livigno Snow Park. But after South Korea’s Gaon Choi stormed back from a nasty fall in her first run to win her country’s first Olympic gold medal in snowboarding, Chloe Kim raced into the crowd to find ...Read more

MILAN — At 10:48 p.m. local time Friday night in Italy, 10:48 and 50 seconds to be precise, Ilia Malinin, the two-time World champion, will take his first steps into a Milano Cortina Olympic Games free skate that will secure him the gold medal.

Malinin will skate to an innovative, deeply personal and ambitious program entitled, “A Voice.”...Read more

MILAN — Brock Nelson might be making his Olympics debut, but he has a rich family history when it comes to playing hockey for Team USA.

His grandfather was a forward on the team that won gold in 1960. His uncle was a forward on the “Miracle on Ice” team in 1980.

And Thursday night, Nelson made a mark of his own. The Colorado Avalanche ...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — At 54, curler Rich Ruohonen thought his Olympic dream had passed him by. Which was a pretty good bet since no American his age had ever competed in the Winter Games.

Until now. Because when Ruohonen replaced lead Aidan Oldenburg for the start of the eighth end in the Americans' 8-3 loss to Switzerland in round-robin...Read more

MILAN — Chloe Kim came up short in her attempt to become the first person to win three consecutive Olympic snowboarding gold medals on Thursday, finishing second in the halfpipe to South Korea's Gaon Choi at Livigno Snow Park.

Choi stormed back from a nasty crash on her first run in which she clipped the lip of the halfpipe and came tumbling ...Read more

What was believed before can now be confirmed: Macklin Celebrini belongs on the biggest international stage in hockey.

Making his Olympic debut as the youngest NHL player in the Milan Cortina Games, Celebrini, the second-year San Jose Sharks center, scored his country’s first goal on an impressive first-period redirection as Canada went on to...Read more

MILAN — Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic jumped out of his seat. He put both hands on his head. His mouth hung open in disbelief.

Ilia Malinin leaves even the greatest athletes of all time in awe.

While Malinin is known as the only figure skater to have performed a quad axel in competition, the 21-year-old "Quad God" is turning more heads and...Read more

MILAN — A single tear rolled down Madison Chock's face. A silver medal hung around her neck. It was a bittersweet prize.

Chock and Evan Bates, the three-time world ice dance champions, settled for second place in their fourth Olympics together, falling 1.43 points behind France's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron on Wednesday at...Read more

MILAN — On a morning when a ray of sun squeezed through the clouds above the Italian Alps as if to provide her a spotlight, Chloe Kim once reminded us that the biggest difference between her and those of us who have never dared to fly is not in the enormous physical gap but in our wildest dreams.

In the most anticipated qualifying round in ...Read more

Australian snowboarder Cam Bolton suffered a broken neck in an accident while training at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

The 35-year-old snowboard cross specialist crashed on Monday and reported worsening neck pain after waking up on Tuesday, the Australian Olympic Committee said.

A CT scan at an Olympic clinic identified two stable neck ...Read more

MILAN — After injuries and stumbles, Madison Chock and Evan Bates earned their first Olympic medal Friday, but it wasn’t expected to be this color.

The three-time world champions settled for silver in their fourth Olympics together, falling 1.43 points behind France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron. Cizeron has won back-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Casey Wasserman faces growing fallout over his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the leaders of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics announced Wednesday that they had reviewed the sports mogul’s past conduct and determined that, based on the facts and his “strong leadership” of the Games, he should continue to...Read more

MILAN — 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 ...Read more