Germany's Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi win gold in 2-woman bobsleigh event with teammates Lisa Buckwitz and Neele Schuten winning silver. Former Canadian Olympian Kaillie Armbruster Humphries and partner Jasmine Jones win bronze medal.
German cross country skier Katharina Hennig Dotzler has said that having the women cross country ski 50 kilometres like the men has nothing to do with gender equality. The women will contest their maiden Olympic 50km on Sunday after the ruling body FIS decided to have women and men ski the same distances across the board.
It dominates the men's bobsleigh world. Johannes Lochner left no doubt, either: In his farewell season, he's going out as the most unbeatable bobsledder on the planet.
Reigning World Cup champion Vinzenz Geiger fell not once but twice in the concluding super team event as Nordic combined powerhouses Germany finished without a medal in the sport for the first time in 28 years.
American sliders Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, and Kaillie Humphreys, 40, secure gold and bronze medals. Meyers-Taylor built on her record as the Black athlete with the most Winter Olympics medals.
Germany lamented a slide down the Olympic medals table from four years ago and an unwanted status at the Milano Cortina Games on Saturday as the team with the most fourth-placed finishes.
For the U.S., Del Duca and Josh Williamson were fourth in 3:41.96 — matching the second-best effort by an American two-man sled in 70 years. Steven Holcomb and Steven Langton won silver at the 2014 Sochi Games, and Todd Hays and Garrett Hines were fourth at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
The squad of Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Christopher Lillis combined to post a dominant score of 325.35, which cleared second place by almost 30 points. Most notably, their win gave the U.S. its 11th gold medal of the games, which broke its record for most golds at the Winter Olympics.
ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) — French biathlon star Martin Fourcade and the 2014 German men's Olympic relay team are among the medalists who are scheduled to be honored Sunday during a medal reallocation ceremony at the Antholz-Anterselva Biathlon Arena at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.
German-born skater Julia Sauter, who competed for Romania at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, achieved the best results in the country’s history in women’s Olympic figure skating. She finished the competition in 17th place,