Month: February 2026

In the final Alpine skiing event of the 2026 Winter Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin captured slalom gold in scintillating fashion. Switzerland’s Camille Rast snagged silver and Anna Swenn Larsson of Sweden secured bronze.

Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill joins TODAY to look back on her gold medal performance 50 years ago and examines how the sport has changed since 1976.

NBC Sports’ Scott Hamilton joins TODAY to talk about his impressions of Team USA from the women’s short program and what to expect from Alysa Liu as she goes for gold in the women’s free skate.

Slovakia men’s hockey thrashed Germany 6-2 in an Olympic quarterfinal round matchup. Slovakia advances the semifinals.

China’s Xu Mengtao became the first skier to win back-to-back Olympic gold in aerials after successfully landing a back full-full-full. Danielle Scott (AUS) took silver while Shao Qi (CHN) claimed bronze.

Beijing slopestyle silver medalist Su Yiming of China improved to gold at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, scoring an 82.41, while Japan’s Taiga Hasegawa (82.13) and American Jake Canter (79.36) took silver and bronze.

After starting the tournament with six straight wins, Sweden has now dropped back-to-back contests, losing in a big way to South Korea, 8-3, on Wednesday in women’s curling round-robin play in Cortina.

Entering Run 2 with a 0.82-second lead, Mikaela Shiffrin put the pedal down to win gold in the women’s slalom by 1.5 seconds, the largest margin of victory in any Olympic Alpine skiing event since Nagano 1998.

Americans Kaila Kuhn and Winter Vinecki advanced to the second round of the women’s aerials final after placing in the top six following the first round. Kuhn placed 5th while Vinecki finished 6th.

In the women’s cross-country skiing team sprint qualification, a dog ran onto the course and zoomed with two skiers across the finish line. The good boy’s sprint was caught by the photo finish camera.

Despite going four straight ends without scoring, Denmark came up with one when they needed it most in the 10th for an 8-7 victory over China on Wednesday in round-robin play of the women’s curling tournament in Cortina.

A steal of two in the 10th lifted Great Britain to an 8-7 win over Team USA during Wednesday’s round robin game in Cortina.

American Gus Schumacher bravely chased Joahnnes Hoesflot Klaebo across the finish line of the men’s cross-country skiing team sprint free. With his teammate, Klaebo claimed his fifth gold medal at Milan Cortina.

Canadian Marion Thenault led the way by nearly nine points after the aerials qualifiers. Danielle Scott was in second and three Chinese skiers rounded out the top five. Kaila Kuhn led all Americans tied for fifth.

Jessie Diggins and Julia Kern of the United States skied hard to a fifth-place finish. Team Sweden wins its fifth gold in women’s cross-country at the Milan Cortina Games.