Anna Odine Stroem of Norway won the Olympic gold medal on the normal hill in women's ski jumping Saturday ahead of Slovenian favorite Nika Prevc.

Men's figure skating favorite Ilia Malinin is widely tipped to break reigning champion Nathan Chen's world record score of 335.30 at the 2026 Winter Olympics. - Matthew Stockman/ On the men's side, "Quad God" Ilia Malinin and the world champion ice dance duo of Madison Chock and Evan Bates lead the charge for Team USA in figure skating.

The country that has steadily been asserting mastery over the halfpipe took that show to the Winter Olympics big air contest Saturday night, where Kira Kimura and Ryoma Kimata flew and stomped their way to a 1-2 finish to put their country on the top of the sport’s highest flying event.

The Milan Cortina Games go viral with intrigue over illicit ski jumping suits and below-the-belt injections—but no Olympians have been caught with anything so far.

Thousands of the world’s best athletes will flock to Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy in February 2026 for the 25th Winter Olympics. While sports fans are focused on the athletic feats of the Olympians,

Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events.

As the Winter Olympics return, exhilarating speed-centric sports such as alpine skiing, luge and bobsleigh take the spotlight. But which is fastest? (AP photo)

Snowboard big air debuted on the Olympic program at the Sochi 2014 Games. Unlike snowboard slopestyle, in which athletes do a full run's worth of tricks on a course that has a jib (rails) section at the top and three large jumps at the bottom,