BEIJING | Xinhua | As the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics opened Friday night, 15-year-old Chen Keyu, a rising star on China’s national ice hockey team, sat glued to her screen in Shenzhen, tracking every shift of the hockey competitions in Italy.

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Mathilde Gremaud edged Eileen Gu to claim another Olympic slopestyle gold. Both competitors raised the standard of women's free ski.

The San Francisco-born skier isn’t new to the Olympics, and neither are questions about the country she competes for.

History will be made by Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Tuesday afternoon, when the United States’ Cinderella run in mixed doubles curling continues with the gold medal match against Sweden. Regardless of Tuesday’s result in the

The Olympic slopestyle war between Mathilde Gremaud and Eileen Gu rages on. The Swiss skier successfully defended her gold in the women’s slopestyle final on Monday morning and held off the Gu, who was born in America but competes for China,

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — A generation ago, the sight of an Olympic halfpipe podium drenched in red, white and blue was as common as fresh powder on the mountain — a fitting and expected celebration for a sport born and raised in the United States.

Gremaud said Gu and bronze medalist Megan Oldham of Canada — who scored 76.46 in her final run to beat Britain’s Kirsty Muir to bronze by 0.41 of a point — had brought the best out of her. Gu — favorite in the big air and halfpipe events later in these Olympics — said Gremaud had “come out swinging” in the second run.