Ilia Malinin skated for a gold medal Friday, Feb. 13, at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. He fell twice, though, and finished fourth.

Ilia Malinin stumbled under Olympic pressure as underdog Mikhail Shaidorov captured gold in a shocking Olympic men’s figure skating final at Milano-Cortina 2026.

Japan's Yuto Totsuka had a stunning second run to claim men's snowboarding halfpipe gold on Friday at the Milan/Cortina Winter Games. The World Cup leader fell in his third and final run, but that didn't matter because the 95 points from his previous effort secured him his maiden Olympic medal.

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.

Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov claimed gold, while Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama took silver and Japan’s Shun Sato won bronze.

Japanese snowboarder Yuto Totsuka won a gripping men's halfpipe final on Friday, shattering Australian snowboard veteran Scotty James's dreams of an elusive gold medal in his fifth Winter Games. Totsuka,

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — That ever-growing bench of Japanese snowboarders runs deep. Jumps very high, too. The country that has steadily been asserting mastery over the halfpipe took that show to the Winter Olympics big air contest Saturday night,

The Olympic Team Event came down to the final skater on Sunday. In front of a packed house inside the Milano Ice Skating arena, the United States narrowly defeated Japan for its second consecutive team gold.

How to watch Japanese figure skaters including Yuma Kagiyama, Shuna Sato, Kaori Sakamoto and pairs team Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Hirano is the reigning gold medalist in the event. He also took back-to-back silvers in 2014 and 2018. He can't be completely counted out of the medal race either. He won the first halfpipe event on the FIS World Cup circuit this season.