7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (336+ words) WASHINGTON — As the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina draw to a close, the Games delivered no shortage of historic performances. Nine Olympic records were broken — all on Milan’s ice tracks — across speed skating and short track speed skating. Seven came…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (296+ words) MILAN, Italy — The final speedskating event at the Milan Cortina Games had a shocking finish. The men's mass start speedskating final began at 10:40 a.m. Eastern, with Team USA's Jordan Stolz starting seventh in the discipline. He was the only U.S....

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (292+ words) WASHINGTON — Alysa Liu ended Team USA’s 24-year gold medal drought in women’s figure skating Thursday, delivering a career-best performance in the free skate to capture Olympic gold. The 20-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area scored 226.79 points, the highest total…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (361+ words) MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan — In a stunning twist in men's figure skating at the 2026 Olympics, Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan — who was an afterthought going into Friday's competition — performed a flawless free skate program and won gold Friday. Shaidorov finished…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (269+ words) Seven-time U.S. national champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates took to the ice Saturday for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics free dance portion of the team event and set a season-best score. The duo danced to an orchestral rendition of "Paint…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (243+ words) WASHINGTON — American speed skater Jordan Stolz delivered on his favorite status Wednesday at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, winning gold in the men’s 1,000 meters and setting an Olympic record. Stolz, a 21-year-old from Wisconsin, won in 1 minute, 6.28 seconds. He overtook…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (375+ words) MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan — The organizing committee for the Milan Cortina Olympics is apologizing for the surface of the podium used at the Milano Ice Skating Arena that caused minor damage to the blades of figure skaters celebrating their…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (219+ words) MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan — Star figure skater Ilia Malinin, known as the "Quad God," scored an impressive 200 points during the figure skating team event Sunday, resulting in more eyes on his next performance. Now that Team USA secured gold…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (308+ words) MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan — Team USA's ice dancers were riding a high heading into their Winter Olympics performance on Monday, and it was clear during their first rhythm dance competition. American skaters Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik set the…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (346+ words) MILAN, Italy — Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea delivered the best free skate of their pairs career when the U.S. needed it most Sunday night, keeping the reigning champion Americans ahead of Japan with two events left in team figure skating…...