(Getty Images) men’s ice hockey The ultimate in the USA and Canada. In 2026 the Winter Olympics takes place today. The last three have won gold medals: Finnish Olympic athletes from Russia (OAR) and Canada in 2014. Four years before that, in 2010, Canada won gold once again, defeating the United States in the final in Vancouver. advertisement The…
Now, the men have achieved a remarkable double victory. Following a challenging beginning, Matt Boldy’s individual skill enabled the USA to make a spectacular comeback. Boldy picked up the puck inside his own half, dribbled it over two defenders, and outran them to collect it before pushing it around stranded Jordan Binnington. Similar to the…
Norway’s king of cross-country skiing, Johannes Hosflot Klebbo, broke the record for most gold medals won at a Winter Olympics with his sixth Games. Klebbo led a Norwegian sweep of the podium at the 50 km mass start classic, with teammates Martin Lövström Nynget and Emil Iversen taking silver and bronze, respectively. The 29-year-old completed…
Alyssa Liu won one gold medal in women’s individual figure skating on Thursday; she became the first American woman to take the Olympic podium in this event since 2006. Kaori Sakamoto of Japan won the silver medal and Ami Nakai of Japan won the bronze medal. The last American woman to win a medal in…
Kirsty Muir once again came very close to winning a Winter Olympic medal. Freestyle skier Kirsty Muir once again came very close to a Winter Olympic medal for Team GB by finishing second and fourth at the Games. Competing in big air, Muir scored a total of 174.75 points from her best two runs, 3.5…
The Scottish quartet were in command throughout against the Germans, leading 5–2 at the break before clearly increasing momentum, but the hitherto undefeated Swiss proved to be tougher opposition. Mouat’s team led 3–2 at the break – a steal in the third proved the difference – and it took until the seventh end for either…
The U.S. The U.S. women’s curling team was surprised to learn that their loss to Canada on Friday is considered a major accomplishment in the Olympics. After the 9-8 nail-biter, Minneapolis native Taylor Anderson-Heide expressed, “If that’s true, I think we played a really good game.” They’re No. 1 in the world.” Tara Peterson of…
