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A surprise dog ran onto the cross-country ski course during the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, crossing the finish line alongside athletes.

There are two women's hockey games on Thursday, Feb. 19, and medals are on the line. Sweden and Switzerland will meet in the bronze medal game at 8:40 a.m. ET. Then the United States and Canada are meeting in the gold medal game at 1:10.

Nazgul first made headlines during a women’s cross-country team sprint qualifying race on Wednesday, Feb. 18, when the Czechoslovakian wolfdog was seen crashing the course as some of the 2026 Winter Olympians were reaching the finish line.

TESERO, Italy (AP) — Nordic goodbye? It could be the last Olympics for a sport that mixes the grace of ski jumping with the grind of cross-country skiing. Nordic combined events at the Milan Cortina Games ended Thursday.

Young stars often get hyped up at the Winter Olympics. Teen skiers and early-20s snowboarders usually shape the games. Yet another group deserves just as much praise. These are the athletes who stayed in elite sport long after most

From trudging up a mountain to immediately skiing down it, Anne Thompson explores the intricacies of the latest addition to the Winter Olympics: ski mountaineering, also known as “SkiMo.” The sport of ski mountaineering made its long-awaited Olympics debut Thursday and crowned its first champion at the Milan Cortina Games in Marianne Fatton of Switzerland.

The rules to decide games change as the tournament unfolds. All of the round-robin games on the men’s and women’s sides follow NHL rules: 5 minutes of 3-on-3 OT, followed by a shootout. One change is that the shootout is five rounds at a minimum, whereas the NHL has three.

Jordan Stolz fell short of Team USA history on Thursday at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Having already secured a pair of gold medals in Milan, first in the 1,000-meter and then in the 500, Stolz set his eyes on gold in the 1,

MILAN (AP) — Three of hockey’s international powerhouses are in the semifinals at the Milan Cortina Olympics after getting a scare at the start of the knockout round. The United States, Canada and Finland all won in overtime in the quarterfinals to move one victory away from playing for the gold medal.