By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — The United States is on top of the hockey world for the first time in nearly a half-century. No miracle needed. Jack Hughes scored less than 2 minutes into overtime and the U.S. beat Canada 2-1 in the gold medal final at the Milan Cortina ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — When organizers designed the 4 Nations Face-Off to be played in February 2025, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said the intent was for it to serve as an appetizer for hockey at the Olympics. What it turned out to be, beyond a smashing success ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO and TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writers MILAN (AP) — Dave Christian got emotional throughout the Winter Olympics watching nephew Brock Nelson play for the U.S., just like he did during the magical run in 1980. Then it got even better: He got to congratulate Nelson after he ...
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer MILAN (AP) — Go ahead and put the names Jack Hughes and Connor Hellebuyck right in the same revered place that Mike Eruzione and Jim Craig have occupied since their " Miracle On Ice " triumph in 1980. It had been 46 years since the United States won ...
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer MILAN (AP) — Jack Hughes lost some teeth before he won Olympic gold for the United States. The forward who put the puck in the net in overtime to give the Americans a 2-1 victory over Canada in the men's hockey final at the Milan Cortina Games on ...
By PAT GRAHAM and EDDIE PELLS AP Sports Writers LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — By taking chances, Eileen Gu is building a sport. She's winning medals. Yet on a sunny Sunday at the Olympics where she defended her title on the halfpipe, maybe the best prize of all was knowing her grandma would be ...
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press TESERO, Italy (AP) — Jessie Diggins crossed the line Sunday as she has done so often over 15 years on the world stage — with the tank entirely empty. Collapsed on the snow with her chest heaving, Diggins ended a 50-kilometer race ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Johannes Lochner went out on top, and Germany capped another dazzling Olympic display with another dominant bobsled show at the Milan Cortina Games. Lochner — who announced his retirement months ago — capped his career ...
VERONA, Italy (AP) — The Milan Cortina Olympics end Sunday with a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games in Olympic history. The 2½-hour ceremony will ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Jadin O'Brien is thinking about 2028. Kaysha Love, Azaria Hill, Frank Del Duca and Kris Horn are already looking ahead to 2030. Kaillie Humphries Armbruster is wondering about 2034, maybe as an athlete, maybe in a different role. And everyone is waiting to see ...
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press TESERO, Italy (AP) — Ebba Andersson pulled away from the pack to win the 50-kilometer mass start cross-country ski race Sunday that served as redemption for her disastrous crash that cost Sweden a gold medal in the team relay at the Milan Cortina ...
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Snowflakes fell on a pair of celebratory red-white-and-green Italian flags on Saturday after the men's skicross final at the Olympics. Freeskiers Simone Deromedis and Federico Tomasoni added to the Olympic host country's medal haul with a 1-2 finish in the Italian Alps ...
By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The gold medal sealed. The accusations of cheating overcome. It was time for Marc Kennedy to let loose. So the curler at the center of one of the biggest scandals that the sport has ever experienced leapt atop the boards ...
MILAN (AP) — Finland won the bronze medal in men's hockey at the Olympics for a third consecutive time with NHL players participating, beating Slovakia 6-1 on Saturday night. Erik Haula scored two goals and Joel Armia had a goal and two assists for Finland, which also got bronze in Sochi in ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The U.S. women's hockey team had just won Olympic gold, and veteran forward Kendall Coyne Schofield summed the moment up perfectly. "We did it!" she exclaimed. Plenty of American women — more than ever at a Winter ...
By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The Canadian men brushed aside earlier accusations of cheating and beat Britain for Olympic gold in curling on Saturday at the Milan Cortina Games. Brad Jacobs' team defeated Bruce Mouat's all-Scottish squad 9-6 inside ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Laura Nolte didn't let this lead get away. She's golden, again. And Kaillie Humphries Armbruster, in perhaps her Olympic bobsled finale, found her way to the medal stand for a record-tying sixth time. Nolte is now the ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The U.S. Olympic team won its record-breaking 11th gold medal of the Winter Games on Saturday, with at least one more good possibility when its men's hockey team wraps up the action on closing day with the title game against ...
MILAN (AP) — Jorrit Bergsma spread his arms wide down the backstretch of speedskating's mass start event at the Milan Cortina Games. He blew kisses to the loud Dutch fans shouting in their orange outfits and wearing their mullet wigs to match his hairstyle. He even applauded right back at ...
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The women's Olympic freeski halfpipe final at the Milan Cortina Games will be held on Sunday, a day later than originally scheduled because of heavy snow in the Italian Alps. The postponement of Saturday's race is the latest winter ...