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Israel's Adam Edelman, left, slides down the track during a two man bobsled training session at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Swiss TV commentary of Israeli Olympic bobsled run fuels fierce reaction

Graham Dunbar, The Associated Press 3 minute read 10:10 AM CST

MILAN (AP) — Switzerland’s public broadcaster has taken down a Winter Olympics clip from its website after a journalist’s commentary during an Israeli bobsled team’s run was criticized.

The commentator quoted and referred to past social media posts by bobsled pilot AJ Edelman supporting the conflict in Gaza. Stefan Renna also cited International Olympic Committee eligibility rules that require Russian athletes not to have publicly backed the war in Ukraine.

The two-minute commentary on Monday also noted a report commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council which concluded last year that Israel committed genocide. Israel disputed those findings as "distorted and false."

In a statement on Tuesday, Switzerland’s French-language public broadcaster RTS said its journalist was questioning the IOC policy in relation to the athlete’s public comments.

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France suspends defenceman Crinon after fight, taunts vs Canada

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France suspends defenceman Crinon after fight, taunts vs Canada

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 6:30 PM CST

MILAN - France has suspended defenceman Pierre Crinon for the remainder of the Olympic men's hockey tournament following his fight with Canada’s Tom Wilson.

Crinon was assessed a fighting major in Sunday’s 10-2 preliminary-round loss to Canada and was handed a game misconduct penalty.

He taunted Wilson and the Canadian bench as he left the ice, holding both hands to his ears and encouraging jeers from the crowd as he walked to the locker room.

The French Ice Hockey Federation (FFHG) said his conduct “constitutes a clear violation of the Olympic spirit” and does not reflect the values expected of players representing the national team.

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Updated: Yesterday at 6:30 PM CST

Canadian forward Tom Wilson (43) fights with French defenceman Pierre Crinon (7) at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Japan wins Olympic pairs title with world record free skate

The Associated Press 1 minute read Yesterday at 4:02 PM CST

MILAN (AP) — Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan win Olympic pairs title with world record free skate.

Russian figure skater Adeliia Petrosian is an Olympic mystery with big jumps and fitness concerns

James Ellingworth, The Associated Press 4 minute read Preview

Russian figure skater Adeliia Petrosian is an Olympic mystery with big jumps and fitness concerns

James Ellingworth, The Associated Press 4 minute read Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026

MILAN (AP) — Few figure skaters at the Winter Olympics have seen Adeliia Petrosian compete in real life.

She might leave with the gold medal.

Russia's exclusion from international sports events during its war with Ukraine means that the 18-year-old Petrosian has only skated one senior competition outside of her homeland, the qualifier that earned her place as a neutral athlete in Milan.

As she readies to skate to Michael Jackson's music in the short program Tuesday, no one besides Petrosian and her controversial coach, Eteri Tutberidze, can be sure of her form, or whether she's injury-free.

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FILE - Adeliia Petrosian of Russia, competing as a neutral athlete, performs during the women's free skating program at the ISU Skate to Milano figure skating qualifier, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)

Defending champion Sweden out of Olympic medal contention in men’s curling after ‘horrible week’

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Defending champion Sweden out of Olympic medal contention in men’s curling after ‘horrible week’

Steve Douglas, The Associated Press 3 minute read 1:49 PM CST

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Defending champion Sweden was eliminated from semifinal contention in the men's curling competition at the Winter Olympics with two matches to spare Tuesday after what skip Niklas Edin described as a “horrible week.”

A 9-4 loss to Switzerland in the morning session dropped Sweden's record in round-robin play to 1-6, leaving the team unable to secure a place in the top four and play for a medal.

The Swedes have been on the podium in each of the last three Winter Games under Edin, winning bronze in 2014, silver in 2018 and gold in Beijing in 2022.

Sweden has been embroiled in a headline-grabbing cheating controversy over the past few days, since one of its players — Oskar Eriksson — accused Canadian rival Marc Kennedy of an illegal double-touch in a feisty match on Saturday.

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Sweden's Niklas Edin reacts after the men's curling round robin session against Germany, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

US skier protests women’s exclusion from Olympic sport while cheering for brother at Milan Cortina

Brian Melley And Derek Gatopoulos, The Associated Press 3 minute read Preview

US skier protests women’s exclusion from Olympic sport while cheering for brother at Milan Cortina

Brian Melley And Derek Gatopoulos, The Associated Press 3 minute read 9:00 AM CST

TESERO, Italy (AP) — U.S. team skier Annika Malacinski attended the Nordic combined at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Tuesday to cheer for her younger brother.

And protest.

Annika came from her training base in Norway to watch brother Niklas finish 13th in his Olympic debut. It was bittersweet for Annika.

Nordic combined — ski jumping and cross-country in one — remains the only Winter Olympic sport that does not include women, even though women compete on the World Cup circuit and at world championships.

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Athlete Annika Malacinski, of the United States, holds a sign demanding the inclusion of women's nordic combined competitions in the Olympics, during the nordic combined individual Gundersen large hill/10km at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Tesero, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Here’s the latest on Day 11 of the Milan Cortina Olympics

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Here’s the latest on Day 11 of the Milan Cortina Olympics

The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: 4:16 PM CST

It's Day 11 of competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics, where Canadians are back in action, looking to add to the country's medal total.

Here are the latest developments. All times Eastern.

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Canada's Laurie Blouin competes during the women's snowboarding slopestyle qualifications at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Livigno, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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Notable quotes from the Milan Cortina Olympics: Feb. 16, 2026

The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 6:41 PM CST

MILAN - Here are some notable quotes from the Milan Cortina Olympics on Feb. 16, 2026:

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"Hockey's not easy. We're at the Winter Olympics. Everybody wants to win.

"We're going to the gold-medal game. We won this game, we scratched, we clawed, we battled hard. We got a lot of shots. We've got to find a way to put a few more in, but at the end the day the gold medal is going to be a battle."

Austria wins gold in 1st Olympic men’s super team ski jump

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Austria wins gold in 1st Olympic men’s super team ski jump

Brian Melley, The Associated Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:25 PM CST

PREDAZZO, Italy (AP) — A disappointing Olympics for Austria's ski jumpers turned to gold Monday on the final night of competition in the debut of the men’s super team ski jump at the Milan Cortina Games.

Jan Hoerl and Olympic rookie Stephan Embacher led through the event before a snow squall forced the cancellation of the final round of the event.

Poland took silver and Norway won bronze.

The result was redemption for Austria, which won the men’s team event in Beijing in 2022, but had not reached the podium in this Olympics.

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Gold medalists Stephan Embacher and Jan Hoerl, of Austria, celebrate on the podium, with silver medalists Pawel Wasek and Kacper Tomasiak, of Poland, and bronze medalists Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Johann Andre Forfang, of Norway, after the ski jumping men's super team competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Predazzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Child dies in car crash on James Bay road

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Child dies in car crash on James Bay road

The Canadian Press 1 minute read Yesterday at 3:19 PM CST

A child is dead following a collision on Friday between two vehicles in James Bay, in northern Quebec, over 1,000 km north of Montreal.

Quebec provincial police said they received a call at 12:35 p.m. about the crash.

Police said five people were involved, four were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

Police said the minor was already deceased when officers arrived at the scene.

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Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, wins Olympic gold medal for US in women’s monobob

The Associated Press 1 minute read Yesterday at 3:18 PM CST

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, wins Olympic gold medal for US in women's monobob.

Canada’s captain Marie-Philip Poulin breaks Olympic women’s hockey scoring record

Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Preview

Canada’s captain Marie-Philip Poulin breaks Olympic women’s hockey scoring record

Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 7:09 PM CST

MILAN - Marie-Philip Poulin's record-breaking goal at the Olympic Games wasn't pretty, but it was important to her Canadian team.

The captain's one-timer hit a Swiss forward and took a couple bounces on its way to becoming her 19th career goal in Olympic women's hockey.

That surpassed the previous high of 18 held by her former teammate Hayley Wickenheiser.

Poulin scored a second goal in a 2-1 win over Switzerland on Monday that sent Canada to the gold-medal game against the United States at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

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Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin (29) reacts a women's ice hockey semifinal game between Canada and Switzerland at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham wins gold in big air for second Olympic medal

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Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham wins gold in big air for second Olympic medal

Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:08 PM CST

LIVIGNO - Canada slopestyle/big air coach J.F. Cusson says Megan Oldham's looks deceive.

"You look at her, and she's all tiny and cute and smiling. But I call her the Mighty Meg," he said with a smile. "She's something."

The 24-year-old freestyle skier from Parry Sound, Ont., lived up to that billing Monday, surviving a 75-minute weather delay to win gold in women's big air in dominant fashion at Livigno Snow Park. Oldham had already earned a bronze in slopestyle, recovering from a "pretty heavy" crash on her second run to make the podium on Feb. 9.

Oldham led the big air competition after the first two runs — competitors had three with the best two counting — and was assured of the gold by the time it came to her third run as the final skier.

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Canada's Megan Oldham pumps her fist as she comes into the finish zone following her first run in the women's free ski big air at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Livigno, Italy on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Gold for Elana! Meyers Taylor, 41, wins Olympic monobob title at Milan Cortina Games

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Gold for Elana! Meyers Taylor, 41, wins Olympic monobob title at Milan Cortina Games

Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 4:35 PM CST

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Elana Meyers Taylor's two young sons watched her leap into the air, throw her fists skyward, wave the American flag, then fall to her knees and start to cry.

In time, they'll understand what they saw.

They saw history.

The 41-year-old U.S. bobsledder — a mother of two special-needs children, an athlete whose career was jeopardized by concussions, someone who dealt with plenty of doubt in recent years — is, finally, an Olympic champion. Meyers Taylor won the gold medal in monobob at the Milan Cortina Games on Monday night, her sixth career medal and first Olympic title.

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Germany's Laura Nolte slides down the track during a women's monobob run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Women’s Olympic freeski big air final delayed by snowstorm at Livigno Snow Park

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Women’s Olympic freeski big air final delayed by snowstorm at Livigno Snow Park

Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 1:47 PM CST

LIVIGNO - A sudden snowstorm delayed the start of the women's freeski big air final by 75 minutes Monday at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Organizers initially said the earliest the final would start would be 9 p.m. local time, a delay of 90 minutes. But competition eventually started at 8:45 p.m., with almost no sign of snow.

During the delay, workers used shovels and portable snowblowers to remove excess snow from the course at Livigno Snow Park.

Canadians Megan Oldham and Naomi Urness were both in the final, with Oldham having topped qualifying.

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Medics stretcher off Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud after she crashed during practice before the women's freestyle skiing big air finals at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Livigno, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Five things to watch at the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday, Feb. 17

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Five things to watch at the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday, Feb. 17

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 4:05 PM CST

Canada’s men’s hockey gold-medal path gets clearer, and our women’s speedskating squad defends its team pursuit title — here are five things to watch Tuesday at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

MEN'S QUARTERFINAL

Canada's men's hockey team finds out its quarterfinal opponent when Czechia and Denmark meet in Tuesday's qualification playoff. The Canadians cruised through Group A, outscoring their opponents 20-3. Connor McDavid has led the way with nine points (two goals, seven assists) alongside 38-year-old Sidney Crosby (two goals, four assists) and 19-year-old Macklin Celebrini (four goals, two assists). The quarterfinals are Wednesday.

IN PURSUIT

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February 17, 2026

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