Two teams with differing expectations meet in the first round of the knockout stage, as Lucas Raymond and Sweden take on Latvia in the men’s playoff qualifiers at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Alysa Liu and Amber Glenn begin the women's figure skating competition, while the men's and women's curling teams play critical matches

Dawson, Lehman and Cepuran settled for silver medals on Tuesday afternoon after advancing to the final of the men’s team pursuit competition but fading in the second half of the race against host Italy. The Italians clocked a winning time of 3:39.20, coming from behind to win the eight-lap final by more than four seconds.

Live updates from the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Tuesday. Get the latest news, results, medal count, TV schedules and highlights from Italy.

In one of the glory events of any Olympics, France knocked off the mighty Norwegians in what some might consider a minor upset to take the gold medal in the 4×7.5 km. The Swedes grabbed the bronze. The Germans forgot how to shoot and took fourth.

Jamaica bobsled team chasing best-ever Olympics finish in 2-man competition originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Jamaican bobsled team always garners a bit of extra attention at the Winter Olympics.

The Winter Olympics moved on to the knockout stage on Monday, with teams settling the pecking order out of group play. Everyone is still technically in the fight, so we move now to ranking every team’s shot at gold down the stretch.

After an uncharacteristically shocking performance at the Milan Cortina Olympics and walking away without an individual medal, Ilia Malinin is choosing to make the most of his failure. “I learned that I am definitely stronger on the inside than I thought I would be,

MILAN (AP) — France’s players were not happy about defenseman Pierre Crinon getting suspended for the rest of the Olympics by the country’s hockey federation for fighting Canada’s Tom Wilson and his actions afterward.