Olympics news, live updates: Closing Ceremony ends final day of Games, Team USA takes down Canada for gold medal in men’s hockey

We’ve moved on to the dance party portion of the evening. A dance troupe has taken the stage surrounded by strobe lights and mirrors, dancing to electronic music.

Alysa Liu’s still beaming from her gold medal win in women’s figure skating. The 20-year-old spoke with NBC on her way in to the closing ceremony arena, and says she’s not done skating.

“Yeah, I mean I have no plans to leave yet,” Liu said when asked about her Olympic future. “I can’t imagine not skating next year.”

The flags are in the arena. And now the rest of athletes participating in the Closing Ceremony are walking in as one group.

The Parade of Nations is underway with Greece, as always, leading the delegation. The parade has started with with music from renowned Italian Spaghetti Western composer Ennio Morricone.

Italy’s 1994 Olympic cross-country men’s relay championship team has carried the Olympic flame into the arena.

The Closing Ceremony has started with a performance from Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata at the ancient Roman ampitheater Arena di Verona.

The Games have concluded, and the Milan Cortina Closing Ceremony is underway.

For team USA, U.S. women’s hockey captain Hilary Knight and ice dancer Evan Bates will be the flag flag bearers. Knight led Team USA to a gold medal, while Bates won gold in the team figure skating competition and silver with his partner and wife Madison Chock in the ice dancing competition.

MILAN — This wasn’t a miracle. It was a moment of magic.

Forty-six years to the day after a bunch of unheralded amateurs stunned the heavily favored Soviet Union en route to winning Olympic gold, the U.S. men’s hockey team engineered another epic victory. The Americans won a battle of the sport’s superpowers on Sunday, toppling longtime nemesis Canada 2-1 in overtime to win their country’s first Olympic gold in men’s hockey since the famed 1980 “Miracle on Ice.”

Jack Hughes scored the decisive goal, ripping a shot past Jordan Binnington less than three minutes into 3-versus-3 overtime.

Read more from Yahoo Sports’ Jay Busbee on the scene.

Jack Hughes created the winning scoring opportunity with a poke check in the USA end and Zach Werenski skated hard up the ice to get the puck.

Retrieving it in toward the left corner, he finds a wide-open Hughes with a centering pass. Hughes then whistled it past Jordan Bennington for Team USA’s first men’s ice hockey gold in 46 years.

Jack Hughes wins the gold medal for Team USA, 1:40 into overtime. Hughes took a centering pass from Zach Werenski and slaps it past Jordan Binnington for the game-winner.

The U.S, wins gold for the first time since the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” team.

Why not overtime for the men’s hockey gold medal game at the 2026 Winter Olympics? The U.S. and Canada will go to an extra period tied at 2-2 after three.

Under Olympic rules, the two teams will play 3-on-3 to decide the winner.

The Milan Cortina Games will last just a bit longer!

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Cale Makar’s goal tied the score for Canada at 1-1 shortly before the second period ended. Prior to that, Team USA did strong work defensively in denying scoring chances, even killing a 5-on-3 Canada power play.

As the period ended, Canada’s Brad Marchand and USA’s Matt Boldy tussled in front of the U.S. bench. USA’s Charlie McAvoy and Vincent Trocheck tussled with Canada’s Drew Doughty and Sam Bennett as well, but no penalties ensued.

The U.S. and Canada each have eight shots on goal as the first period ends. At one point, Canada had a 7-2 advantage, so Team USA really increased the pressure late in the period, helped by a power play opportunity.

Sweden defeated Switzerland, 6-5, in 10 ends to win the gold medal in women’s curling.

Anna Hasselborg scored the final point to give Sweden its fourth consecutive gold for the Swedish team, joining the championships won in Sochi, Pyeongchang and Beijing.

Hasselborg is the second Swedish skip to win two gold medals, joining Anette Norberg. Altogether, five Swedish curlers have earned two Olympic golds, including Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer and Sofia Scharback.

Overall, Sweden has medaled in seven of the eight Winter Olympics since women’s curling was added to competition in 1998. The Swedes have earned four golds, one silver and two bronze.

Switzerland gets its third silver medal in women’s curling, joining those won in Salt Lake City and Turin.

Team Canada captain Sidney Crosby will not play against the U.S. in Sunday’s gold medal men’s ice hockey final.

Crosby, 38, suffered a right leg injury during Canada’s quarterfinal matchup versus Czechia and did not play in the semifinals against Finland. The hope was that Crosby would recover in time for Sunday’s final, but the decision was made before gametime.

Follow Yahoo Sports’ live blog for the USA-Canada final here.

Germany did not sweep the medal podium in 4-man bobsled. However, the Germans took the first two spots with the team piloted by Johannes Lochner taking gold and Francesco Friedrich’s team getting silver.

Lochner’s gold joins the silver his team won in Beijing. He and George Fleischhauer also took gold in two-man bobsled at the Milan Cortina Games.

Switzerland, piloted by Michael Vogt. made a late surge to get a spot on the podium.

Eileen Gu saved her best for last, scoring a 94.75 on her final run and reaching 4.0 meters on her highest jump to win her second consecutive gold medal in women’s freeski halfpipe.

Eileen Gu has won her second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the women’s freeski halfpipe. After pulling out on her first run and scoring a 30.00, she bounced back significantly with a 94.00 and 94.75.

China took the first two spots on the podium with Gu’s teammate Li Fanghui earning silver with a 93.00 on her third run.

Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin was on top after her first run, but couldn’t recover from missing a landing on her second. She scored a 92.50 on her third run to finish behind Gu and Fanghui.

Eileen Gu earns a 94.75 on her third run in the women’s freeski halfpipe final, improving on the 94.00 she scored on her second run. She landed all of her tricks and got strong amplitude, reaching 4.0 meters on her jump.

Zoe Atkin will be the final skier in this third run with a chance to overtake Gu for gold.