US Wins Its Record 11th Gold Medal at Winter Olympics
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Klaebo’s triumph in the 50-kilometer mass start race was his sixth victory at the Milan Cortina Games and shattered the nearly 50-year record set by American speed skater Eric Heiden, who won five golds in the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.
Team USA started off strong with its 11th gold medal at Milan Cortina, breaking its record for the most gold medals in a single Winter Games. Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won his sixth gold medal at became the only athlete who has won six medals of any color at a single Winter Games.
Isabeau Levito has now competed in her first Winter Olympics at Milano Cortina 2026, representing Team USA in the women's singles event on Tuesday and Thursday. The 18-year-old entered the Games as an eight-time medalist,
Day 13 at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics featured dramatic finishes in women's hockey and figure skating -- and gold medals for the United States.
Elana Meyers Taylor seeks a medal to become the most decorated female U.S. Winter Olympian in the two-woman bobsled. She and Jadin O'Brien sit in 12th heading into Heat 3. The teams of Kaillie Armbruster Humphries/Jasmine Jones and Kaysha Love/Azaria Hill are in third and fifth, respectively.
Athletes will say goodbye to Italy with the closing ceremony for the 2026 Winter Olympics on Feb. 22.
The women's curling team will also play its penultimate game of the Olympics: a semifinal contest against Switzerland at 8:05 a.m. A round-robin win over Switzerland on Thursday punched the Americans' tickets to the semis. The Swiss now get a revenge opportunity after coming up on the wrong side of that 10th-end stone.
Two curling powers get set to face off for the gold medal on Saturday, as Canada and Great Britain meet in the final of the men’s Curling tournament at the 2026 Winter Olympics.