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Eileen Gu Balks at Question on 'Lost' Olympic Golds
Eileen Gu Balks
at Question on
'Lost' Olympic
Golds
2026 Olympics
Feb 18, 2026 11:20 AM CST

Eileen Gu Balks at Question on 'Lost' Olympic Golds

Gu calls query 'ridiculous' on whether 2 silvers won at 2026 Games are really '2 golds lost'

(Newser) - Eileen Gu isn't sweating the what-ifs. After becoming the most decorated women's freestyle skier in Olympic history with five medals, the 22-year-old US citizen competing for China was asked at a Milan Cortina press conference if she viewed her pair of 2026 silver medals as "two silvers...

Russia Inches Its Way Back Onto the World Sports Stage

Committee allows Russians to represent their nation at Paralympics next month, for first time since 2014

(Newser) - Russia is about to step back onto one of sports' biggest stages, and not everyone is cheering. More than 10 years after a massive state-backed doping scandal pushed it to the sidelines, and amid its ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia will send six skiers to next month's Paralympic Games...

Norway's Klaebo Continues 'Golden Run' at Games
Norwegian Rules
Cross-Country
Slopes, Along
With a Dog
2026 Olympics
Feb 18, 2026 8:17 AM CST

Norwegian Rules Cross-Country Slopes, Along With a Dog

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo earns 5th gold medal of Games, while a pup infiltrates the women's heat

(Newser) - Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo's golden run at Milan Cortina continued Wednesday as the Norwegian cross-country ski star secured his fifth gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics—and a record 10th overall—in the men's team sprint. Klaebo beat back a challenge from the United States to improve on his...

Norwegian Coasts to Record 9th Gold
Skier's Record Gold
Is a Party
2026 olympics
Feb 15, 2026 10:28 AM CST

Skier's Record Gold Is a Party

Fans from Norway and Sweden, including a prime minister, celebrate cross-country relay victory

(Newser) - A wave to the celebrating crowd, a glide across the line—and a moment of Winter Olympic history. Norway cross-country skiing star Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won his ninth gold medal on Sunday, setting a Winter Games record. The 29-year-old anchored the 4 x 7.5-kilometer relay in the men's...

Norwegian Skiing Star Ties for Most Winter Olympics Golds
It Was a Lucky
Friday the 13th
for Cross-Country Star
2026 OLYMPICS
Feb 13, 2026 9:59 AM CST

It Was a Lucky Friday the 13th for Cross-Country Star

It's now a 4-way, all-Norwegian tie for most gold medals at a Winter Olympics

(Newser) - Friday the 13th will be remembered as a lucky day for Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo. Norway's cross-country skiing star tied an all-time Winter Games record by winning his eighth gold medal Friday at the Milan Cortina Olympics. The 29-year-old claimed victory in the men's 10 kilometer interval-start race for...

US Skier Finished in Pain, Still Won Bronze
US Skier: I'm
'the Happiest
Bronze
Medalist'
winter olympics
Feb 12, 2026 2:26 PM CST

US Skier: I'm 'the Happiest Bronze Medalist'

Jessie Diggins had injured her ribs in a crash days earlier

(Newser) - Jessie Diggins' last Olympics isn't ending quietly. The 34-year-old, already the most decorated American in cross-country skiing, gutted out a bronze medal Thursday in the women's 10km freestyle despite racing with bruised ribs from a crash days earlier, reports the Athletic . She finished in 23:38.9, then...

Athlete Convicted of Fraud Wins Olympic Gold Over Victim
Athlete Convicted of Fraud
Wins Olympic Gold Over Victim
2026 Olympics
Feb 12, 2026 12:55 PM CST

Athlete Convicted of Fraud Wins Olympic Gold Over Victim

France's Julia Simon edges past scammed teammate, who came in 80th, in 15km biathlon

(Newser) - A biathlete who admitted ripping off her teammate's credit card just skied past her to an Olympic title. France's Julia Simon, 29, took gold in the women's 15km individual biathlon in Italy's Milan Cortina Games, while Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, the teammate she defrauded, finished a distant 80th,...

Ben Ogden Ends 50-Year US Men's Cross-Country Drought
50-Year US Men's
Cross-Country Drought Is Over
2026 OLYMPICS
Feb 10, 2026 2:53 PM CST

50-Year US Men's Cross-Country Drought Is Over

Ben Ogden is first to win Olympic medal in sport since fellow Vermonter Bill Koch in 1976

(Newser) - For the first time since the Ford administration, an American man is back on an Olympic cross-country skiing podium. Ben Ogden grabbed silver in the men's sprint classic Tuesday at the Milan Cortina Games, ending a 50-year medal drought for the US in the sport, NBC News reports. Ogden,...

Vonn Has Surgery After Crash Ends Comeback
Vonn Undergoes Operation
After 'Heartbreaking' Crash
2026 olympics
Feb 8, 2026 5:00 PM CST

Vonn Undergoes Operation After 'Heartbreaking' Crash

World Cup champion fractured her leg in comeback attempt

(Newser) - Champion skier Lindsey Vonn underwent surgery to stabilize a fracture in her left leg in Italy on Sunday after she lost control and crashed horrifically during a downhill race at the Winter Olympics, silencing a crowd that included her father. She was airlifted to a clinic in Cortina, then moved...

Take a Sneak Peek at Some of the Olympics' New Events
Get Ready for Some
'Skimo' at the Winter Games
2026 OLYMPICS
Feb 7, 2026 6:30 AM CST

Get Ready for Some 'Skimo' at the Winter Games

Ski mountaineering is one of 8 new medal events to broaden competition, boost women's participation

(Newser) - Olympic viewers who think they've seen it all are about to meet "skimo." For the first time since skeleton returned in 2002, the Winter Games are adding a brand-new sport: ski mountaineering. The discipline—popularly shortened to skimo—will debut with three medal events: men's sprint,...

Nearly 70 People Rescued From Ski Mountain Gondolas

Malfunction left them stuck up to 70 feet in the air for 5 hours at NY's Gore Mountain

(Newser) - Nearly 70 people were rescued from gondola cabins at an upstate New York ski area after a mechanical problem forced a shutdown of the lift system, leaving skiers stranded for hours up to 70 feet in the air, authorities said. Staff at Gore Mountain in North Creek, nearly 90 miles...

Vonn 'Confident' She Will Ski in Olympics Despite Injury

41-year-old ruptured her ACL in a crash last week

(Newser) - Lindsey Vonn says she is "confident" she can compete at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics beginning this week despite the left knee injury she sustained in a crash four days ago. Vonn said on Tuesday she "completed ruptured" her ACL, per the AP . But after three days of...

Vonn Had One Knee Replaced, Just Hurt the Other One

Injury raises doubts about Olympics, but 41-year-old says she knows something about comebacks

(Newser) - Lindsey Vonn's planned Olympic comeback suffered a jarring setback on Friday in Switzerland, just seven days before the Milan Cortina Games open in Italy. The 41-year-old American ski champ crashed in a World Cup downhill at Crans-Montana after losing her balance coming out of a jump on the second...

Skier Survives Dangerous 'Deep Slab' Avalanche

Video of incident in Canada's Banff National Park shared as warning to backcountry skiers

(Newser) - A skier in Banff National Park came frighteningly close to disaster this week, yet walked away without a scratch. Parks Canada says the backcountry skier triggered a "Size 2" avalanche—one massive enough to "bury, injure, or kill a person," per Avalanche Canada —on Tuesday on...

Triplets Gunning for a Spot at the Winter Olympics

Black siblings hope to represent their mother's Jamaica, open up skiing for athletes of color

(Newser) - It's been a whirlwind winter for triplets Helaina, Henri IV, and Henniyah Rivers in their quest to represent their mother's native Jamaica, a Caribbean island nation associated more with sprinting than skiing, at the Winter Olympics next month. As Black ski racers in a predominantly white sport, the...

Skier Dies After Falling Into Pile of Fresh, Deep Snow

Toronto woman, 47, may have suffocated after immersion accident in Banff National Park

(Newser) - A ski trip in Alberta's Banff National Park turned fatal over the weekend for a 47-year-old woman from Toronto. Sunshine Village Ski Resort says the woman was skiing on Saturday afternoon on Banff Avenue, a beginner-rated green run on the lower mountain, when she plunged into a pocket of...

Boy, 5, Dies on Family Trip Before Making It Up Slope

Hinata Goto died after his arm got caught in 'snow escalator' at Hokkaido's Asari ski resort

(Newser) - A family ski outing in northern Japan ended in tragedy after a 5-year-old boy became trapped in a moving walkway at a Hokkaido resort and died, prompting a safety investigation and criticism of the equipment's design. Local media identified the child as Hinata Goto of Sapporo. He was using...

Vermont Rescue Team: Social Media Leading Skiers Astray

Posts in the backcountry are inspiring inexperienced skiers to chase untouched powder

(Newser) - A rescue team that covers Vermont's tallest mountain has seen an alarming rise in calls from inexperienced skiers who end up getting lost and in dangerous locations after being influenced by videos on social media. After seeing footage online of skiers chasing fresh powder tracks in the backcountry, people...

Record Win Launches Lindsey Vonn's Olympic Season

41-year-old, who last took a downhill race in 2018, now knows 'how fast I am'

(Newser) - Lindsey Vonn didn't just ski well for a 41-year-old on Friday, she skied like a champion who's faster than all challengers. Vonn on Friday became the oldest winner of a World Cup race since the circuit started in 1967, the AP reports. Vonn raced to a stunningly fast...

It's the 'Most Audacious Ski Run in History'

Jim Morrison manages to descend the Hornbein Couloir

(Newser) - Outside Online calls it "perhaps the most impressive ski descent of all time"—one American Jim Morrison managed to achieve on Wednesday. The 50-year-old ski mountaineer completed a historic ski descent on Mount Everest's Hornbein Couloir after depositing the ashes of his late partner Hilaree Nelson...

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