Olympics news, live updates: U.S. now has its most gold medals in a single Winter Games, will look to add USA hockey gold on Sunday

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.

After three runs, Germany holds the top three spots in the 4-man bobsled competition. The team of Francesco Friedrich, Matthias Sommer, Alexander Schuller and Felix Straub are in first place.

Team USA has the ninth and 10th spots with the team of Frankie Del Duca, Boone Niederhofer, Bryan Sosoo and Joshua Williamson the closest.

Li Fanghui puts China in the first two spots after scoring a 91.50 on her second run. She and Eileen Gu are one and two.

Zoe Atkin followed and hit the edge of the pipe as she tried to land an alley-oop, causing her to lose both skis as she landed. She gets a “DNI” for her second run, though did reach 5.4 meters on one of her jumps.

Shaking off her first run, Eileen Gu rebounded with a strong second run. She landed the alley-oop that she missed the first time, though didn’t get quite as high with her jumps as Zoe Atkin did on her first run.

Gu scores a 94.00 to move into first with Atkin still to go.

After finishing first in qualifying, Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin stays in top form on her first run in the women’s freeski halfpipe final.

She got great amplitude, reaching 4.5 metres on her highest jump.

Eileen Gu earned a 30.00 on her first run and is eighth going into the second run.

Eileen Gu’s first run in the women’s freeski halfpipe final will be a throwaway. She earned a 30.00 after pulling out on the run after a shaky landing on her first trick.

Canada’s Kate Fraser scored an 85.00 on her first run and is currently in first. USA’s Kate Gray placed seventh with a 44.50.

We have some extra Winter Olympics action on this final day with the women’s halfpipe final, which was delayed yesterday due to snow.

Representing China, this is Eileen Gu’s last chance to leave the Milan Cortina Games with a gold medal after she won silver in Slopestyle and Big Air. She is defending the gold she won in Beijing.

Americans Kate Gray and Svea Irving will compete in the event for Team USA. But Zoe Atkin — American, but competing for Great Britain — might be Gu’s top challenger today. Atkin finished first in qualifying, while Gu placed fifth.

The showdown that the hockey world has waited a dozen years to see again on an Olympic stage is finally here.

It’s the U.S. vs. Canada in Sunday’s gold-medal match. The stakes could not possibly be any higher.

“This is the pinnacle of the sport, this is as good as it gets,” American forward Matthew Tkachuk said.

Then, perhaps forgetting that the puck will drop at 8:10 a.m. ET, Tkachuk added optimistically, “There will not be one TV without this game on in the United States and Canada. That should get you pretty fired up.”

The Americans have not won Olympic gold in men’s hockey since the iconic “Miracle on Ice” 46 years ago. They last reached the gold-medal match in Vancouver in 2010 when Sidney Crosby’s overtime goal lifted host Canada to victory in what remains the most-watched TV broadcast in that hockey-obsessed country’s history.

While nine-time champion Canada won the last two times the Olympics featured NHL players in 2010 and 2014, a best-on-best U.S. victory on Sunday would not be a miracle. The Americans came to Milan with a roster overflowing with NHL talent and the unwavering belief that it is at last their time again.

Many of Sunday’s key players were also on the ice last February when the U.S. and Canada split a pair of tense, hard-fought games at the 4 Nations Face-Off. The Americans won the round-robin matchup in a game that began with three fights in the opening nine seconds. Connor McDavid’s overtime goal secured revenge for the Canadians in the final just a few days later.

Will Canada celebrate Olympic gold for the 10th time? Or will the U.S. end its decades-long drought? Let’s address five key questions about Sunday’s blockbuster gold-medal match.

It’s hard to believe, but the Milan Cortina Olympics are coming to an end. The Closing Ceremony is on Sunday in Verona, Italy, where Team USA will be led by two of its brightest stars.

It was announced Friday that U.S. women’s hockey hero Hilary Knight and ice dance icon Evan Bates will carry the American flag during the ceremony.

Knight, fittingly known as “Captain America,” is coming off a dramatic win over Team Canada in the gold-medal game. The U.S. was trailing 1-0 with a bit more than two minutes left in regulation on Thursday. That was, before the 36-year-old Knight scored a game-tying and record-breaking goal to force overtime.

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The United States set a new American record for gold medals won at a Winter Olympics on Saturday. And it came from a discipline where Team USA hadn’t had any success earlier in the Games.

After disappointing performances in the individual aerials events, the mixed team of Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis got to take home some hardware, defending the gold medal Team USA won in this event four years ago in Beijing.

It was the 11th gold of these Games for the U.S., topping its previous Winter Olympics record set in Salt Lake City 24 years ago.

“We’ve had a lot of success with (this event), and I think the fact a lot of U.S. athletes come from team sports and just using each other as motivation really helps us, especially in aerials skiing,” said Lillis, who was the only holdover from the 2022 team and thus became the most decorated aerials skier in Team USA history. “It can feel kind of lonely up there, but if you watched our team at any point in the day, we literally vibe off each other so much and each person that puts down a great jump just motivates the next person.”

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After a disappointing finish to his Olympics competition, Ilia Malinin put together a stellar rebound performance in Saturday’s gala.

Finland takes the bronze medal in the men’s ice hockey tournament with a 6-1 win over Slovakia.

Tomas Tatar cut Slovakia’s deficit to 2-1, scoring with 30 seconds remaining in the second period. But Finland responded with a four-goal onslaught in the third.

Roope Hintz, Kaapo Kakko and Joel Armia each found the net, and Erik Haula tallied an empty-net goal after Slovakia pulled Samuel Hlavaj with four minutes left in the game. Haula finished with two scores.

Canada took down Great Britain with a hard-fought 9-6 win in Saturday’s gold medal match. It’s the fifth curling gold medal for the Canadian men and first since 2014. Great Britain has yet to win the event.