2026 Winter Olympics live updates: Chock and Bates take silver; Stolz sets Olympic record

Before Jordan Stolz skated, Dutch skater and reigning world champion Joep Wennemars was bumped by his opponent in their race, triggering a reskate. He finished off the podium in fifth.

We’re in the homestretch of the ice dance competition. An American team is in first place. Five pairs are left. Can Madison Chock and Evan Bates come back and win gold? Can two American teams earn a medal? A very exciting finish awaits.

Team USA's Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik are on a hot streak, beating their personal best for two straight events.

The couple's interpretation of "Romeo and Juliet" earned a 123.19, moving into first place for the time being. Their season best was 122.89 before today's free skate event.

They also outscored their season best on Monday by more than six points with a rhythm dance routine set to "Poison" and "Something in Your Eyes." Zingas and Kolesnik are unlikely to medal today, but they have left nothing in the tank as they fight for the podium.

It was a strong start from Sweden's men's hockey team today, ending the first period with a 2-1 lead over Italy.

Italy's Luca Frigo was first to find the back of the net, with a goal just four minutes into the game. But Sweden was unfazed as Gabriel Landeskog, a forward for the Colorado Avalanche, equalized just five minutes later.

Florida Panthers defenseman Gustav Forsling put his native Sweden ahead with another goal with a little more than two minutes left in the period.

Because today's order of skaters placed the top scorers from Monday at the end, tension is mounting to see who will maintain the podium positions.

The leaderboard is quickly changing as people who were at the top prior to the break start to move lower. Ice dance's top three duos will perform last, but anything could happen in these final few performances.

Only eight more pairs are left to skate.

Team USA's Evan Bates and Madison Chock will be the penultimate performers, quickly followed by France's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron. The two teams are 0.46 points apart after the rhythm dance performance on Monday.

Stolz, the U.S. speedskating star, showed off his new gold medal after setting an Olympic record in the 1,000-meter. It could be the first of four during the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Team USA's Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko outperformed their season best with a score of 119.47, soaring to the top of the leaderboard.

The American duo had a season best of 116.24 as they took the ice, three points less than what they earned in today's free skate routine. Carreira and Ponomarenko were calm as the scores were read, likely knowing they would not podium today but still hugged each other in delight.

Carreira and Ponomarenko sit at the top of the scoreboard so far, though more skaters are warming up now as 10 more pairs are set to skate.

Legendary ice dancer Scott Moir is pulling double duty coaching his native Team Canada — and also coaching for rivals on Team USA.

Moir won three gold medals and two silver with partner Tessa Virtue for Canada in his more than 20-year career as an ice dancer and has recently turned to coaching.

Canada’s Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain le Gac, who are coached by Moir, are currently in first place. He sat beside them in a Team Canada jacket as they cheered and hugged as the judge's scores came in, but he'll soon swap to a Team USA jacket when Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko take the ice.

It's not uncommon for skaters from different countries to share coaches.

Team USA's Evan Bates and Madison Chock share coaches with France's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron. Bates and Chock are just half a point behind the French duo, who won first in Monday's rhythm dance event.

Doc Emrick interviewed U.S. hockey Hall of Famer Bill Cleary about winning Olympic gold in 1960, playing hockey at Harvard and his Olympic values.

Canada’s Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain le Gac got the crowd going a bit at the Milan Ice Skating Arena, with their drum-heavy track drawing a clap-along from the stands. We are in the midst of the second group of skaters in tonight’s ice dance event, with 14 pairs still waiting to compete.

The first set of ice dancers have performed beautiful routines during the free dance event, though they may be unlikely to medal today.

Siblings Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mzarek from Czechia scored 109.35, about 2 points higher than their season best, putting them in first place.

Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek of Czechia. Gregory Shamus / Getty Images

An ethereal rendition of “Romeo and Juliet” landed British skaters Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez in second place based on their combined score of 106.99 for the free dance and 72.46 in the rhythm dance earlier this week.

Australia's Jason Chan and Holly Harris are currently in third after scoring 108.64 with a free dance routine set to "Clair de Lune."

The top three ice dancers who scored the highest in the rhythm dance, and are most likely to medal, are scheduled to end today's event.

Slovakia men’s hockey defeats the 2022 Olympic champion Finland in the first game of the men’s Olympic hockey tournament.

Jordan Stolz will go home with at least one gold medal after winning the 1,000-meter race for men's speedskating, shaving roughly 1 second off the Olympic record.

Dutch speedskater Jenning de Boo earned the silver, and China's Zhongyan Ning has the bronze.

Jordan Stolz of Team USA competes during the men's speedskating 1,000-meter. Sarah Stier / Getty Images

Jordan Stolz soared straight to first after beating the Netherlands' Jenning de Boo with a time of 1:06.28.

Stolz fell short of his world record time of 1:05.37 but still made history with an Olympic record.

The second round of the figure skating ice dance competition is set to begin here in Milan, with tonight showcasing the free dance portion of the event. The pairs with the best combined score from their rhythm dance performance will take home medals.

Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates are currently in second place.

Team USA's Jordan Stolz was seen on skates, moments before his 1,000-meter speedskating race.

The 21-year-old from Wisconsin is a favorite for gold in today's event, the first of what he hopes to be four medals at this year's Games.

The Dutch are toppling the leaderboard in the second half of today's 1,000-meter men's speedskating event.

Netherland's Kjeld Nuis dominated his race with a 1:07:65 time that sent him straight to No. 1 over Italy's Daniele di Stefano. But his time at the top was short-lived, as compatriot Joep Wennemars shaved .07 seconds from Nuis' time in the race just after this.

On Saturday, the U.S. men’s team will play Denmark, a nation it is heavily favored to defeat in a preliminary matchup. But the intrigue for that game stems from what’s been taking place off the ice: President Donald Trump has spent months seeking to absorb Greenland, a Danish territory, into the U.S. against the wishes of the Danish government, sparking tensions between the U.S. and its NATO allies.

Then, it’s likely the U.S. will face Canada, a game that would pit two of the favorites to win gold in Milan against each other. It would also be the latest matchup between the squads amid Trump’s threats to force Canada to join the U.S., mocking it as the “51st state.”

Last year, the president’s administration held meetings with a separatist group in the Canadian province of Alberta that seeks to get a referendum on the ballot later this year to withdraw from the nation. And the president has recently said any budding relationship between Canada and China will lead to the death of hockey in Canada.

Slovakia defeated Finland 4-1 in the opening game of the Olympic men's ice hockey tournament today.

The team was already leading 3-1 in the third period when Adam Ruzicka, a former NHL forward who now plays in the Kontinental Hockey League, found the back of Finland's net with less than three minutes left in the game.

Slovakia was considered the underdog going into the preliminary game, as Finland won gold in men's hockey during the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The Finns also had roughly double the NHL experience on their roster in comparison.

The next men's hockey game will take place at 3:10 p.m. ET as Italy takes on Sweden in Milan.

In a social media post following her harrowing crash at the Milan Cortina Olympics, Lindsey Vonn said she is already on the road to recovery.

“I had my 3rd surgery today and it was successful. Success today has a completely different meaning than it did a few days ago,” Vonn wrote in a post on Instagram today. “I’m making progress and while it is slow, I know I’ll be ok.”

Vonn, the 41-year-old legendary skier, was competing in the Alpine women’s downhill event on Sunday when she clipped a pole and crashed less than 15 seconds into her run. Vonn was heard screaming in pain while lying in the snow before she was airlifted off the course.

Read the full story here.

Team USA’s Marcus Mueller and Ansel Haugsjaa put in a stunning first run in their Olympic debut, besting the second-fastest Austrian duo by 0.003 seconds.

Italy's Daniele Di Stefano is at the top of the leaderboard with a time of 1:08.17 and half the pairs left to skate.

He's followed closely by Canadian Laurent Dubreuil with a time of 1:08.21, and Korean Kyung-Min Koo sits in third with a time of 1:08:53.

The first eight pairs have already taken the ice, but Team USA's Jordan Stolz is expected to shake things up when he races in the 14th set of the day.

Slovakia is looking to increase its lead in its first men’s ice hockey game with a 3-1 score against Finland and less than 10 minutes left in the third period.

Slovakia's Dalibor Dvorsky scored about eight minutes into the period to bring his team up 2-1.

Three minutes later, teammate Juraj Slafkovsky scored his second goal of the game.

The first few pairs have hit the ice in Milan for the men's 1,000-meter race, one of today's medal events.

The first four pairs have completed their races, with Korean Kyung-Min Koo taking first with a time of 1:08:53. Canadians David La Rue and Anders Johnson follow close behind with times of 1:09.31 and 1:09.54 to round out the top of the leaderboard.

Here at the Milano Speed Skating Arena, we're underway in the men’s 1,000-meter. American Jordan Stolz is the favorite to win his first gold medal.

At least two-thirds of the arena is in orange to support the Netherlands. Huge turnout for the Dutch.

U.S. speedskating star Jordan Stolz will go for his first Olympic medal today when he competes in the 1,000-meter event, which starts at 12:30 p.m. ET.

Stolz, widely considered the best skater in the world, competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics at 17 years old — the youngest male athlete on the team in Beijing — and finished 13th in the 500-meter and 14th in the 1,000-meter. But since then, he’s dominated the competition.

Stolz swept the 500-meter, 1,000-meter and 1,500-meter at world championships in 2023 and 2024 and was named the youngest male World Allround champion in 46 years. He set the world record in the 1,000-meter with a time of 1:05.37 in January 2024.

Jordan Stolz at Milano Speed Skating Stadium on Saturday in Milan. Henk Jan Dijks / DeFodi Images via Getty Images

Stolz is also riding a 14-race unbeaten streak in the 1,000-meter on the World Cup level.

“The preparation has been going well and my body feels good,” he said last week. “There’s not much more I could ask for.”

Read the full story here.

Finland and Slovakia remained tied 1-1 at the end of the second period of the first men's ice hockey game today.

A fight broke out between both teams after the whistle blew but was quickly broken up by the refs.

Team USA’s Alex Hall joins "TODAY" to talk about the run he never tried before that won him a silver medal in the freeski slopestyle event.

Finland scored just a few seconds after its power play ended, tying 1-1 with Slovakia five minutes into the second period.

The Slovakia vs. Finland hockey game started its second period with a power play for Slovakia. 

Action from the second period between Finland and Slovakia. Mike Segar / Pool via Getty Images

A skirmish at the very end of the first period resulted in a roughing penalty called against Finland’s Joel Armia, but Finland was able to hold Slovakia off for the two minutes the team was a man down. 

But just moments later, after Finland managed to kill the power play, they were granted one of their own. Slovakia's Matus Sukel was sent to the penalty box for a holding call.

Just as the power play ended, Finland's Eeli Tolvanen scored.

Slovakia leads Finland 1-0 at the end of the first period in the first men's ice hockey game.

Finland couldn't equalize despite having 18 shots on goal compared with just five from Slovakia.

Finland had a power play opportunity after a tripping call against Slovakia's captain, Tomas Tatar. The team did gain momentum toward the end of the period as it kept putting pressure on Slovakia's end of the ice, but Slovakian goalie Samuel Hlavaj refused to concede a goal.

It's an exciting day for Olympic hockey as NHL players have returned to the Games for the first time since the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

There are 21 NHL players playing in today's Finland vs. Slovakia match, the first game of the preliminary round.

Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky scored the very first goal of the tournament for Slovakia.

Slovakia also has players such as Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Erik Cernak on the ice and Calgary Flames center Martin Pospisil.

Some of the names there for Finland today are Dallas Stars defenseman Esa Lindell and Nashville Predators goalie Juuse Saros. Finland also has two-time Stanley Cup winner Anton Lundell, who won back to back with the Florida Panthers.

First period action between Finland and Slovakia today. Bruce Bennett / Getty Images

Slovakia's Juraj Slafkovsky, who plays for the Montreal Canadians in the NHL, scored the first goal of the men's ice hockey tournament unassisted with roughly 12 minutes left to go in the first period.

Slovakia leads Finland 1-0 early on in the game.

The men's ice hockey Olympic tournament starts now with Finland and Slovakia facing off in the first game of the competition.

The Italian national team will play for their hometown crowd later today when they take on Sweden.

“Coach” Snoop Dogg joins "TODAY" to talk about how his experience in Milan has differed from Paris, the new Olympic sports he’s tried out and much more.

The International Olympic Committee said it was begging Ukraine’s skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych to compete without wearing a helmet honoring athletes from his country who were killed during the war with Russia.

“We beg him, we want him to compete,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said in a news conference today when asked if Heraskevych will be disqualified from taking part in the Games if he wears the helmet again.

“I don’t think it is helpful in this situation to look at hypotheticals since we are trying to get him to take part,” he added.

Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych during the men's skeleton training at the Cortina Sliding Centre on Monday while wearing his "helmet of remembrance." Andrew Milligan / PA Images via Getty Images

Heraskevych has been fighting to compete in the helmet, which features images of the Ukrainian athletes who either died fighting or were killed in attacks. But Adams said yesterday that the helmet violated the Olympic Charter guidelines, something that Heraskevych disputes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other country officials have strongly supported the athlete.

In a video on Instagram posted today, Heraskevych accused the IOC of “double standards” as he said Ukraine was demanding that the ban on his “helmet of remembrance” be lifted so he can compete in it later this week.  

The men's ice hockey competition will get underway shortly, with defending gold medalists Finland taking on Slovakia, which means NHL players are about to return to the Olympic ice for the first time in 12 years, having missed the last two Games.

So why have the world's best hockey players missed the last two Olympics?

For the 2018 Olympics, NHL players were not permitted to travel after a series of disputes between the league and the International Olympic Committee. Since the 1998 Olympics, the IOC had covered the travel costs associated with getting NHL players to the Games and covered insurance, a deal it did not have across any other sports league, including the NBA.

Ben Ogden snapped a 50-year Olympic medal drought for the American men in cross-country, earning silver behind Norway’s Johannes Klaebo, but it was his mom’s cheering that helped make the moment even more memorable.

Elizabeth Lemley and Jaelin Kauf's moguls medals, combined with Ryan Cochran-Siegle's silver earlier today in the men's super-G, see Team USA jump up the medal table.

The United States now has 10 medals overall in these Games, putting them third in terms of the total number of medals won. Team USA now holds three golds, five silvers and two bronze medals.

Norway are currently top of the table with 13 medals, including seven gold, while host nation Italy sit second with 11.

Jakara Anthony falls during the moguls and it's gold and silver for Team USA!

20-year-old Elizabeth Lemley is the Olympic champion in her debut! And Jaelin Kauf makes it back-to-back silver medals for her.

Elizabeth Lemley takes air today during the freestyle skiing women's moguls final. Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP - Getty Images

Elizabeth Lemley knew coming into this medal run the big improvement needed from her was her speed through the course, and she managed it, completing the course in 25.81 seconds. She also boosts her turn score, which lands her in gold medal position on her Olympic debut! A really strong score of 82.30 for Lemley.

Japan's Hinako Tomitaka follows Lemley down the course. She cannot beat Lemley's score.

Next is Jaelin Kauf. She's aggressive through the moguls, but she's a little bit slower through the course. That run from Kauf gives her provisional silver with a score of 80.77.

Team USA are guaranteed two medals, and only defending champion medalist Jakara Anthony can topple Lemley for gold. The Australian has been faultless throughout the competition — will she nail it here?

Mikaela Shiffrin offers vulnerable and genuine congratulations to her teammates Paula Moltzan and Jackie Wiles for their bronze medal win in the women’s team combined.

Elizabeth Lemley shines off the jumps; she takes the highest aerial score of this first run, but she is a little slow time-wise. A score of 79.02 sees her qualify in fourth place.

But we are unfortunately losing two Americans. Olivia Giaccio is a little conservative off the jumps in her runs, which sees her lose points. Tess Johnson, who is back at the Olympic Games after going to PyeongChang 2018 as a 17-year-old before missing the team in 2022, is also out. The pair finished ninth and 10th.

Elizabeth Lemley on the moguls today. Michael Reaves / Getty Images

We told you to keep an eye on Australia's Jakara Anthony. She glides through the moguls with ease and goes big off the jumps. She also goes quickest of all down the course, and all of that puts her top of the leaderboard with a score of 83.96, ahead of Jaelin Kauf's 80.13.

It will now be straight into the medal run for our eight remaining skiers. The scores are now all reset, and they have one chance to state their claim for gold.

Jaelin Kauf is the first of the Americans to come to take on the moguls. She won silver in this event in Beijing four years ago, but an error in the first run on qualifying here means she's further down the running order than would have been expected.

Kauf carves through the turns with ease and time-wise, she has the fastest run so far at 24.96 seconds. She pumps the air with delight as she crosses the line, and a score of 80.13 puts her at the top of the leaderboard as the first athlete of these finals to clear the 80-mark. For perspective, somewhere in the mid-70s should be a good enough score to make it through, so we'll likely be seeing Kauf go for gold later on.

Outside of the Americans, watch out for Australia's Jakara Anthony, who was Australia's flagbearer at the opening ceremony. She pipped Kauf to gold in Beijing and has qualified for these finals as the top seed. Americans Elizabeth Lemley and Olivia Giaccio qualified second and third.

Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin join "TODAY" from Cortina to talk about their historic silver medal win in curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics. They open up about their dreams of going to the Olympics 20 years ago, what it was like seeing Snoop Dogg cheering them on with their families and more.

Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin talk historic curling Olympic win

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We might have a winner for the most exclusive group chat ever.

The Associated Press took readers behind the scenes on the epic group chat called the “OGM chain,” which stands for “only gold medalists.” It’s made up of every U.S. figure skater who has ever won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics.

The list of members stretches back to Tenley Albright, the now-90-year-old who won gold in 1956.

Nathan Chen gained entry into the exclusive club when he won a pair of gold medals at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. He received a text right after claiming gold that read, “congratulations. Welcome to our chat,” the AP detailed.

Team USA has high hopes in the women's moguls, with the finals getting underway shortly.

Four Americans came through qualifying, with Jaelin Kauf, Tess Johnson, Olivia Giaccio and Elizabeth Lemley all hoping to contend for medals.

Jaelin Kauf competes in the freestyle skiing women's moguls qualification 2 today. Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images

In this event, skiers head down a steep slope featuring large, uniform bumps, known as moguls, carving through them by quickly moving their knees and hips. Skiiers also perform tricks coming off two jumps — one near the top of the course and another further down.

The technique of the skier turns through the moguls makes up 60% of a skier's score. The tricks off the jumps make up another 20%, while the time they take through the course makes up the final 20% of a score. So it's all about balancing strong technique, big tricks and speed.

There is no room for error in the final. Each of the 20 skiers will take part in the first round, with only the top eight making it through to the final run. The scores then reset, and those eight skiers will get one run to try to take gold.

Rich Ruohonen swears his wife, daughter and son are okay with him saying that getting to throw one rock in the Olympic curling competition would be the greatest moment of his life.

“They’re not gonna be mad at me for saying it wasn’t my wedding day. We’ve been married a long, long time,” he said yesterday, one day before the men’s curling tournament begins in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

The USA's Men's Curling team, including Rich Ruohonen, front center, at a 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics welcome event earlier this month. Joe Scarnici / Getty Images

“I’ve been working at it (curling) my whole life. To get here means everything as well, but to get out and throw one rock, it’d be my dream."

Ruohonen, a 54-year-old personal injury lawyer from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, is at his first Olympics as the alternate on the U.S. men’s curling team.

At trials, his teams finished fifth for the 2006 Torino Games, fourth for 2010, fourth for 2014, runner-up for 2018 and third for 2022

It had been a rough couple of days for Ryan Cochran-Siegle. The Vermont native suffered from food poisoning, just about managing to battle it down enough to run in Saturday's downhill, before his beloved New England Patriots lost the Super Bowl on Sunday. Bouncing back from his illness, Cochran-Siegle managed to prove his 2022 silver was no fluke as he claimed 2nd again in the men's super-G.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle competes in the men's super-G alpine skiing event today. Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images

"It's super emotional," Cochran-Siegle told NBC's Heather Cox when asked how it felt to come back from illness to claim silver. "[I] definitely had to fight some demons with the toilet before my run [in Saturday's downhill]. These past few days, just been trying to recover as best as possible.

"Honestly, coming into these Games, I was just so focused on the downhill, felt as though that was my opportunity."

As the third racer down the course, Cochran-Siegle faced a long wait to see whether he would earn a medal. He was happy with his time, fistpumping after crossing the finish line. And as the top-ranked skiers came down the course behind him, missing his benchmark time, it slowly started to dawn on the 33-year-old, particularly after legendary Swiss racer Marco Odermatt failed to go ahead of him, that a medal could be his.

"It was a slow wave," Cochran-Siegle said. "Now it's settling in a little bit, but I definitely can't believe it."

Jaelin Kauf finished second in the second round of women’s moguls qualification, nabbing a spot in the final. The 29-year-old landed a cork 720 for her top air jump, a part of the course that gave her trouble during yesterday’s qualification. An additional backflip mute grab earned her 77.18 points, enough to put her 12th in the overall qualification standings.

“Out of the top air, that was where things went a little wrong yesterday,” Kauf said. “Once I was in the middle, I felt good. It wasn’t the best run I’ve ever put down but got a top-to-bottom in and made it through (to) the final."

"Skiing the second qualification round wasn’t part of the plan, but once I was in, it was just coming out, trying to put a solid top-to-bottom through. Not trying to push or do anything crazy out here but just get a run down and get the Olympics started.”

With six World Cup moguls victories and an Olympic silver medal under her belt, Kauf is aiming for gold in this afternoon’s final.

The Canadian Olympic Committee said it is “heartbroken” by a school shooting in British Columbia that left at least seven people dead and many others wounded.

Team Canada issued a statement at the Olympics today, the morning after the deadly shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.

“We are heartbroken by the news of the horrific school shooting that occurred in British Columbia. Our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones, those who are injured, and the entire Tumbler Ridge community. Team Canada stands with everyone affected as they navigate difficult days ahead," the statement said.

Team USA's Ryan Cochran-Siegle knows how to turn it on for the big occasion. He has won silver in the men's super-G, claiming Team USA's third alpine ski medal of these Games.

It is Cochran-Siegle's second Olympic medal, having also taken silver in this event in Beijing in 2022. He splits two Swiss stars on the podium.

Franjo von Allmen's remarkable Olympics are continuing. He has become just the fourth skier to win three Olympic golds at the same Games, adding the super-G title to golds in downhill and the men's team combined. Marco Odermatt took bronze.

The Cochran family is an American skiing dynasty. Cochran-Siegle is one of six members of the family to have skied in the Olympic Games, and his mother, Barbara Ann Cochran, won gold in slalom in the 1972 Sapporo Games.

There were question marks over whether Chloe Kim could compete in these Games after tearing the labrum in her left shoulder in a training accident just over a month ago, but she looks as good as ever after topping qualifying in the women's halfpipe this morning.

Kim will look to go back-to-back-to-back and win a third consecutive halfpipe gold in tomorrow's final after comfortably topping the leaderboard in this morning's qualifying, and she will be joined by two of her Team USA teammates. Maddie Mastro has qualified in third, and Bea Kim has also progressed in 10th.

The women's halfpipe final is tomorrow at 1:30 p.m ET.

We're almost at the end of halfpipe qualifying and the competitors are really going for it. A reminder of how tough this sport can be, China’s Liu Jiayu has had a heavy fall and remained down on the snow.

She has just been stretchered away by medical personnel.

China's Liu Jiayu crashes during the women's snowboarding halfpipe qualifications today. Lindsey Wasson / AP

Chloe Kim goes for it on her second run and looks a level ahead of the rest of the field again. She doesn't improve on her first score, so we won't find out what that second run would have scored, but fair to say she is going to qualify top of the standings this morning.

Chloe Kim competes during the women's snowboarding halfpipe qualifications today. Abbie Parr / AP

Team USA's Bea Kim also doesn't improve on her second run. She currently sits 10th so she faces a nervy wait to see whether her first run is enough to see her finish in the top 12 to qualify for the final.

Maddie Mastro goes even better on her second run. A score of 86.00 puts her in third as it stands. She's emotional at the bottom of the course, having missed out on qualifying for the final in Beijing four years ago by one position. This means a lot to her.

After falling on her first attempt, Maddie Schaffrick lands a clean run, but a score of 61.75 means she comes up short and won't make it through. She is carrying a similar shoulder injury to Chloe Kim.

Elsewhere, Japan's Sara Shimizu also lands a big score after bailing on her first run. A score of 87.50 puts her in second. Lots of improvement so far in these second runs, but still no one can get close to Kim's huge score.

We're now also underway with the men's super-G over on the famed Stelvio course in Cortina. This event combines the speed of downhill and the discipline of slalom.

Switzerland's Marco Odermatt comes in as the favorite. He's the reigning world champion in this event and the legendary skier will be looking to win his first gold medal of these Games, having finished 4th in the downhill and winning silver in the team combined. Teammate Franjo von Allmen is chasing his third gold medal of these Games.

Marco Odermatt of Team Switzerland at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Monday. Alexis Boichard/Agence Zoom / Getty Images

Team USA's Ryan Cochran-Siegle took a surprise silver in this event in Beijing. He is one of the early runners here, and has set the benchmark at the top of the timesheets so far with a time of 1:25.45.

Each skier has one shot at glory, with the skier with the fastest time taking gold.

We're done with the first set of runs in the women's halfpipe qualifying. Chloe Kim leads the way with a score of 90.25, with Japan's Rise Kudo and South Korea's Gaon Choi a distance behind in second and third.

Chloe Kim reacts to her score during the women's snowboarding halfpipe qualifications today. Lindsey Wasson / AP

It has been a strong start for the American boarders. Maddie Mastro's run has her in fourth at this stage. Her 81.00 should be good enough to get her through. Bea Kim sits in 7th at this stage on 76.75. She will also be hoping to maintain a spot in the top 12 to make it to tomorrow's final.

Each rider will have one more go down the pipe. Maddy Schaffrick bailed on her first run, so she will need to nail it this time around to have a chance to advance.

The American, known by some as the Queen of Snowboarding, arrives at the Olympics and her spot in tomorrow's final is assured.

A score of 90.25 is a real statement — Kim is well ahead of the rest of the field at this point.

Chloe Kim of Team USA competes in run one of the Women's Snowboard Halfpipe Qualification today. Adam Pretty / Getty Images

19-year-old Bea Kim, who is majoring in Climate and Sustainability at Columbia University, rounds off the first runs for the four Team USA competitors. She scores 76.75. A very promising run, she is sixth in the standings as it stands.

Team USA's Maddie Mastro has landed a strong first run with a score of 81.00, which is good enough for third so far. The three-time Olympian narrowly missed out on qualifying for the halfpipe final in 2022, but that score should be more than good enough today.

Maddie Mastro of Team USA warms up prior to the Women's Snowboard Halfpipe Qualification today. Cameron Spencer / Getty Images

Maddy Schaffrick, making her Olympic debut here at 31, bailed out of her run, so the pressure will be on for her second and final run.

Schaffrick has quite a story — turning pro at 14 before growing disillusioned with the sport at 21, quitting to become a plumber. She then returned as a coach, rediscovering her love of snowboarding before mounting a comeback to competition in 2024, bringing her to her Olympic debut today.

Our first look at Chloe Kim will be coming up shortly.

We're now underway in this morning's qualifying runs in the women's halfpipe in Livigno. It has been snowing overnight, and a very light flurry is still falling now.

Each athlete will get two runs on the halfpipe — a U-shaped slope with walls at least 22 feet high — in qualifying, with judges awarding scores for the flips, spins and aerial tricks they piece together on their runs. The best score for each rider counts, and the top 12 out of the 24 competitors advance to tomorrow's final.

Chloe Kim will be the 15th boarder down the pipe this morning.

Chloe Kim during the warm up prior to Women's Snowboard Halfpipe Qualification today. Oliver Weiken / dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images

We likely won't see her biggest tricks today — she will keep those in reserve for tomorrow — but she will still want to be top of the standings, as that would hand her the advantage of being last to go in the final. Three other boarders are competing for Team USA: Maddie Mastro and Olympic debutants Bea Kim — no relation to Chloe — and Maddy Schaffrick.

Chloe Kim returns to the Olympic halfpipe this morning for qualifying as she begins her bid as she looks to defend her back-to-back Olympic titles and become the first snowboarder in history to win gold at three consecutive Olympic Games — a feat not even achieved by the legendary Shaun White. 

Kim took a pre-planned two-year hiatus from the sport after Beijing. It took time for her to find her form, but she went on to dominate the second half of the 2024/25 season, winning the X Games title and a third world championship crown.

Her toughest competition looks to be South Korea's Gaon Choi, who broke Kim's record of being the youngest halfpipe champion at the X Games when she won it in Kim's absence at 14-years-old in 2023. This season, she has been in great form, winning all three events she has taken part in ahead of the Games. Team USA's Maddie Mastro is another to look out for.

Women's halfpipe qualifying gets underway in the next few minutes.

Team USA's Chloe Kim is a dominant force in women's halfpipe, taking gold in the last two Olympics, but her hopes of taking a historic three-peat almost went up in smoke last month after injuring her shoulder in a training crash in Switzerland.

Chloe Kim during a Snowboard Halfpipe Press Conference, in Livigno, Italy on Monday.  Hannah Peters / Getty Images

Last month, Kim was in practice for the Laax Open, one of the biggest annual snowboarding events on the calendar, when she fell from the halfpipe, tearing the labrum in her left shoulder. Given the injury, Kim has not taken part in competition since December.

But Kim has overcome that setback. She couldn't snowboard for two weeks after her injury, so she used the downtime to vacation with her boyfriend, reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett.

Jordan Stolz takes to the ice for his first race of these Games in the men’s 1,000-meter. Stolz, 21, is considered the best speed skater in the world.

He made his Olympic debut in 2022 when he was the youngest male athlete on the U.S. team in Beijing.

Jordan Stolz training earlier this month. Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty Images

While he did not medal at those Games, since then, Stolz swept the 500-meters, 1,000-meters and 1,500-meters at back-to-back world championships in 2023 and 2024, won the 2024 World Allround title, and has dominated on the World Cup stage. 

Stolz is looking to join fellow Wisconsin-born speed skater Eric Heiden as the only American in any sport (man or woman) to win three or more gold medals at a single Winter Games.

Chloe Kim makes her Milan Cortina debut this morning in halfpipe qualification, while later on generational speed skating talent Jordan Stolz goes for gold in the men's 1,000-meters speed skating. NHL stars also take to the ice as men’s hockey begins. There are eight medals to be handed out on day 5 of the Games.

Chloe Kim during the Toyota US Grand Prix at Copper Mountain in Dec. 2025, in Colo. Maddie Meyer / Getty Images

All times are in Eastern, and an asterisk signifies a medal event.

 Wednesday, Feb. 11

4:30 a.m.: Snowboard, women’s halfpipe qualification

5 a.m.: Freestyle skiing, women’s moguls qualification 

5:30 a.m.: Alpine skiing, men’s super-G*

7:45 a.m.: Cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, individual Gundersen normal hill/10 km*

8:15 a.m.: Biathlon, women’s individual 15 km*

8:15 a.m.: Freestyle skiing, women’s moguls finals*

10:40 a.m.: Men’s hockey, Slovakia vs. Finland

11 a.m.: Luge, women’s doubles run 1

11:51 a.m.: Luge, men’s doubles run 1

12:30 p.m.: Speedskating, men’s 1,000-meter*

12:53 p.m.: Luge, women’s doubles run 2

1:05 p.m.: Curling, men’s round-robin (Sweden vs. Italy, Canada vs. Germany, USA vs. Czechia, China vs. Great Britain)

1:30 p.m.: Figure skating, ice dance, free dance*

1:30 p.m.: Snowboard, men’s halfpipe qualification

1:44 p.m.: Luge, men’s doubles run 2

3:10 p.m.: Men’s hockey, Italy vs. Sweden

Hannah Bilka scored two goals, Caroline Harvey, scored a goal and Laila Edwards tacked on another as the United States handed Canada it's first-ever Olympic shutout in dominant fashion.