Athletes to watch from Team USA at Winter Olympics
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Following the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Norway pushed its all-time medal total to 405, becoming the only country with more than 100 gold, silver and bronze medals in Winter Games history.
The gold medals at the Games in Italy contain a sizeable amount of the metal but they are far from being entirely made of gold.
Olympic fans in the United States have a lot to look forward to over the next few years. Los Angeles will host the Summer Olympics in 2028, and on Wednesday, Salt Lake City was awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics.
The small town of Warroad, Minnesota, has had an outsized impact on the history of hockey in the U.S. The inclusion of Brock Nelson on the men's Olympic team this year makes eight players from Warroad to go to the Winter Games.
Which country and athlete has won the most gold medals in Winter Olympics history? Find out here.
The U.S. and Canada are the only countries to ever capture Olympic hockey gold, and the two hockey powerhouses have met in each of the last four Olympic finals. Canada took the most recent championship showdown, beating Team USA 3-2 in the 2022 Beijing final.
Lindsey Vonn inspected the Olympic downhill course with other racers early Friday as she prepared to take part in the opening training session despite tearing the ACL in her left knee a week ago. The 41-year-old Vonn is planning to compete at the Milan Cortina Games with a large brace covering her injured knee.
There are few bigger stories going into the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games than Team USA's women's alpine ski team. For one, the winningest ski racer of all time, none other than Mikaela Shiffrin,