What we covered today
• US athletes and Trump clash: Snowboarding star Chloe Kim responded to President Donald Trump’s criticism of her fellow Olympian Hunter Hess, saying she’s proud to represent the US but “we need to lead with love and compassion.”
• Lindsey Vonn statement: The ski racer said she has no regrets over her decision to compete in her first comments after breaking her leg.
• An American upset in curling: US duo Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse knocked out the defending gold medalists from Italy in the mixed doubles curling semifinals. They play Sweden for the gold on Tuesday.
• “Don’t jump” with the medals: That’s what US stars Alysa Liu and Breezy Johnson are advising fellow winners after finding out that their prizes rip off easily from their ribbons and holders.
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Here's what you need to know about Monday's Winter Olympics action
There’s a lot to catch up on as we wrap up day three of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
Here’s what to know:
Snowboarder Chloe Kim stepped into the political fray after being asked in a news conference on Monday about President Donald Trump’s criticism of Hunter Hesse, a fellow member of Team USA, who had expressed mixed feelings about representing his country.
“My parents being immigrants, this one definitely hits pretty close to home,” she said. “I think in moments like these it is really important for us to unite and kind of stand up for one another for all that’s going on, and I think that I’m really proud to represent the United States.”
Lindsey Vonn spoke out for the first time after Sunday’s awful crash, saying she had no regrets about her decision to compete. She suffered a complex tibia fracture in her left leg and has multiple surgeries in her future to fully heal.
We’ve had five medal events today:
- A speed skating 1000m Olympic record was broken — and then broken again — at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium by a pair of Dutch women’s speed skaters. Two-time Olympian Femke Kok’s time of 1:12.59 from today’s final surpassed defending champion Miho Takagi’s previous 1000m Olympic record of 1:13.19. Just minutes later, Dutch teammate Jutta Leerdam broke the new record set by Kok, finishing with a 1:12.31.
- There was a tie for silver — yes, a tie — in the men’s team combined alpine skiing. Switzerland and Austria managed to finish with the exact same total time of 2:44.04, resulting in two silver medals rather than the traditional silver and bronze.
- Switzerland picked up their second gold medal of the day in the women’s freeski slopestyle final with a narrow 0.38 point win from Mathilde Gremaud over China’s Eileen Ailing Gu.
- Germany’s Philipp Raimund is an Olympic gold medalist in his first Olympic Winter Games, winning the men’s ski jumping normal hill competition. Raimund had a standout performance at the Predazzo PSJ-Normal Hill with 274.1 total points.
- Japan’s Kokomo Murase shed tears of joy after winning a gold medal in the women’s Big Air final.
- The Swiss had a very successful Day 3 in Milan-Cortina, walking away with two gold, one silver and one bronze medal.
This post has been updated with additional information.
About that hockey game...
Sorry about that. Lindsey Vonn’s statement obviously broke up the updates on the USA-Switzerland hockey game that we were following here.
Luckily, we didn’t miss much: The US wins by the 5-0 score we last updated you on.
Coming up next? Canada. Stay tuned for our coverage of that game tomorrow.
Team USA qualify rhythm dances to look ahead to Wednesday’s free dance
Madison Chock and Evan Bates jumped into medal contention after their rhythm dance skate, falling just short of France’s Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry. The pair recorded a score of 89.72.
Chock and Bates, a four-time Olympian duo, will head into Wednesday’s free dance with their eye on the prize.
Americans Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko will join the two in the free dance competition. The top 20 pairs from today’s competition will advance.
Lindsey Vonn releases first statement since her devastating crash on Sunday
Lindsey Vonn has released her first statement, saying she has no regrets, after her devastating crash in the downhill final on Sunday morning that resulted in a broken leg and ended her Olympic comeback.
“Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tail (sic), it was just life,” she wrote on Instagram.
She went on to explain what happened:
Quick recap: Officials said Vonn was in “stable condition” after undergoing two operations to treat a serious fracture in her left leg following her crash. The American burst out of the start in Sunday’s final but caught a gate with her right arm after just 13 seconds, sending her tumbling down the slope to a halt.
Vonn said she has no regrets despite the crash. She reminded fans that the sport has always been “incredibly dangerous,” but urged them to “dare greatly.”
Team USA takes a commanding 5-0 lead over Switzerland
The goals are coming in bunches now.
In a little more than a minute, Team USA extends the lead to five and normal service appears to have resumed.
With a big showdown against Canada on deck tomorrow night, the USA is gliding through the Swiss here in the third.
Goals from Caroline Harvey and Alex Carpenter have paced the USA to a 5-0 lead as we tick past the halfway point of the third period.
Credit to the Swiss, who hung with the Americans in the first half of this game but the quality of Team USA is ultimately shining through.
USA’s Chock, Bates on deck for figure skating rhythm dance qualifier
Hopes are high for American figure skaters Madison Chock and Evan Bates as the duo gets ready to take the ice in today’s qualifier.
The pair will skate to a remix of the songs “American Woman,” “Fly Away,” “Always on the Run” and “Are You Gonna Go My Way.”
Four-time Olympians, Chock and Bates already have one gold medal in this year’s Games for the team event. The two have been to 12 World Championships together, winning three gold, one silver and two bronze medals.
Team USA takes a 3-0 lead in the early stages of the third period
Well, the third period just got underway and it’s already 3-0.
Caroline Harvey comes flying into the zone and goes behind the net and finds Taylor Heise. Heise fires a pass from the faceoff dot toward Hannah Bilka, who steers the puck past Andrea Braendli and into the Swiss net.
Seems academic from here on out now. Another first Olympic goal for the US tonight – it’s Bilka’s first goal on the game’s biggest stage and in her first tournament.
About a minute later, Hayley Scamurra puts the puck in the back of the net after a save by Braendli. But the Swiss are challenging the play, arguing that Joy Dunne interfered with the Swiss keeper — knocking Braendli over just before the shot came in.
There could be an argument that Dunne was pushed into Braendli by a Swiss defender, but Dunne did have a skate in the crease when she collided with the Swiss goalie.
The referee takes the goal off the board and it remains 3-0 in favor of Team USA.
The best photos from Monday’s Olympic action
The Winter Olympics are off to a flying start after an eventful first weekend in Italy.
Dutch speedskater Jutta Leerdam won the 1,000 meters on Monday, setting a new Olympic record in the process. Her time of 1:12.31 broke the record that teammate Femke Kok had set just minutes earlier in the competition. Kok finished with the silver.
Monday’s action also included the slopestyle final in freestyle skiing, which was won by defending champion Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland. China’s Eileen Gu finished with the silver.
Another Swiss athlete, alpine skier Franjo von Allmen, won his second gold medal of these Games as he and Tanguy Nef finished first in the combined event on Monday. Von Allmen already has a gold from the downhill event that he won on Saturday.
Check out all the great Olympic photos we’ve seen so far.
It's 2-0 to Team USA after American pressure pays off
And there’s the second goal and it’s a deeply unfortunate one for the Swiss.
Joy Dunne steals the puck from a Swiss defender behind the net and comes back in front of the net on her backhand. She sends the puck across the front of the crease – an apparent pass? Or an errant shot – and it connects with a Swiss player’s skate and goes into the open net.
The second period comes to an end with the score remaining 2-0. Twenty minutes left in this one.
This post has been updated with additional developments.
Team USA is pressing but can't find another goal yet against Switzerland
The prediction of increased pressure from the US is coming true.
So far, the Americans have hit the post and put Swiss goalie Andrea Braendli under pressure with a few great scoring chances as the action stays almost exclusively in the Swiss zone.
The USA went on the power play for the first time when Lena Marie Lutz is called for an illegal hit – there’s no checking allowed in women’s Olympic hockey. It would have been totally clean if this was happening in a different competition, but not this year in Milan.
The puck isn’t going over the line but Braendli is under fire. The US has 26 shots on goal as we get to the halfway point of the game.
American goalie Gwyneth Philips has had to make a couple of really strong saves on the rare times the Swiss get out of their zone.
The US definitely being tested here.
Second period underway in USA-Switzerland women's hockey game
Away we go in the second period. It’s 1-0 to the US and the Americans are looking to build on their lead quickly as they press into the offensive zone in the opening minute.
The second period is where the US has really broke away during the first two games of these Olympics, expect more pressure from the Americans for the next 20.
It's 1-0 to the US after the first period
The US is being tested a bit more in this game than they were in their opening games.
An excellent save by Gwyneth Philips denies the Swiss an opening goal as she dropped to the ice and flashed an exquisite glove hand to make the save on a short-range shot that came off some fancy tic-tac-toe, cross-ice passing from the Swiss.
Not a bad way to get going in your first Olympic start – especially with expectations so high for this American team.
The US has also had its own chances, but a penalty for tripping on Rory Gildray allowed the Swiss to take the initiative in the latter stages of the first period.
The action largely calmed and neither team claimed a great scoring opportunity before the first period ended. We’ll take a little break and wait for the second to get started.
One thing in the Olympics that’s different than what you might be used to in the NHL: The period intermissions are 15 minutes long rather than the 18 in the NHL.
Germany’s Raimund wins gold, Switzerland earns fourth medal of the day
Germany’s Philipp Raimund is an Olympic gold medalist.
In his first Olympic Winter Games, Raimund had a standout performance at the Predazzo PSJ-Normal Hill with 274.1 total points.
Kacper Tomasiak of Poland came in second, earning a silver medal with his 270.7 total points.
The Swiss had a very successful Day 3 in Milan-Cortina, walking away with two gold, one silver and one bronze medal.
Skijumper Gregor Deschwanden closed things out for Switzerland with a 133.2 point final jump, bumping him into a podium position. The four-time Olympian tied with Japan’s Ren Nikaido for bronze.
USA goes up 1-0 over Switzerland in women's hockey game
The Americans are on the board in Milan!
It’s Haley Winn scoring her first Olympic goal to put the US up 1-0 in the first period. She did what every great goal scorer does – put her head down and cruised to the net with her stick on the ice, breaking through two Swiss defenders to turn a Caroline Harvey pass into the net.
Also assisting on the play was Hilary Knight, her 30th Olympic point (in hockey a goal or an assist counts as a point). She’s just two back of setting a new American record for most Olympic points.
Japan's Kokomo Murase wins gold in women's snowboarding Big Air final
Japan’s Kokomo Murase is shedding tears of joy after winning a gold medal in the women’s Big Air final.
The event came down to the final two runs. Murase went first and was thrilled with her score, which took her total to 179.00 points.
All eyes then turned to Korea’s Yu Seungeun to beat that mark, but with all the pressure on, she barely landed her jump. She ended up with the bronze medal on 171.00 points, with New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott taking silver on 172.25 points.
USA and Switzerland underway in women's hockey action
We’re underway in Milan in the women’s hockey matchup between Team USA and Switzerland.
So far, the American women have romped through these Olympics. They rolled Finland 5-0 on Saturday and stomped the Czech Republic 5-1 on Thursday.
We’re a few minutes in and it’s still 0-0 between the US and Swiss.
Nikaido, Deschwanden are tied for silver in men's normal hill ski jumping
Japan’s Ren Nikaido shares the silver spot in the men’s normal hill skijumping final with Switzerland’s Gregor Deschwanden, with both jumpers nailing back-to-back attempts worth over 130 points. Two jumpers remain until the podium is set.
The Swiss are chasing their fourth medal of the day.
USA duo improves on last attempt, men’s normal hill skijumping final underway
Tate Frantz and Jason Colby both improved on their final jump during tonight’s men’s normal hill skijumping final.
Both Americans scored a fraction above 129 points in their final jump, rounding things out with both jumpers notching over 250 points total.
The USA was passed by Swiss jumper’s Felix Trunz’s 253.6 point total. Colby currently controls the silver medal position with 252.3 points and is trailed by Frantz with 25 jumpers to go.
Yu Seungeun takes the lead in Big Air final ahead of third runs
Drama in the Livigno Snow Park as the women’s Big Air final hots up.
Korea’s Yu Seungeun has taken the lead after Japan’s Kokomo Murase received a surprisingly low score in her second run – many in the crowd couldn’t get their head around why the judges didn’t like it.
Regardless, Murase will have to shake it off as all 12 women prepare for their third runs.
Japan's Kokomo Murase currently leads women's Big Air snowboarding final
The women’s 1000m speed skate final is over but the action doesn’t stop. I’m here, at the back of the stadium, watching the women’s Big Air snowboarding final.
Everyone has performed the first of their three runs, and Japan’s Kokomo Murase is currently top of the leaderboard with a score of 89.75.
Second runs are underway as we speak, and I’ll be bringing you the highlights (as long as the lights don’t turn off in this arena).
