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Wednesday was a busy day for U.S athletes at the Milan Cortina Olympics as Team USA doubled its gold-medal tally.

Meanwhile, injured snowboarder Chloe Kim laid to rest any notion that she’s anything but the gold-medal favorite. Madison Chock and Evan Bates likely finished their careers on the podium. And the jilted lover of the unfaithful Norwegian biathlete has responded.

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Here are five of the top stories from Day 5 of the Milan Cortina Olympics

Jordan Stolz’s star turn

If you didn’t know Jordan Stolz’s name before, he introduced himself to the wider world on Wednesday.

The 21-year-old U.S. speedskater who’s the best in the sport made his Olympics debut in dramatic fashion. Stolz trailed Jenning de Boo of the Netherlands in the final lap of their 1,000-meter race and appeared at risk of an upset loss.

But he chased de Boo down on the back stretch, then sprinted past him on the final turn as if propelled out of a slingshot to overtake the Dutch skater with the fastest time of the day at 106.28, a new Olympic record. Stolz made up nearly a full second over de Boo on the final lap to secure the win.

Stolz’s time survived the final race of the competition, and the world-record holder in the 1,000 meters is now the Olympic record holder and a gold medalist. De Boo took silver, and China’s Ning Zhongyan won bronze.

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Stolz is just getting started at Milan Cortina. He has a realistic shot at leaving the Games with four gold medals. He’s also slated to compete at 500 meters (Saturday), 1,500 meters (Feb. 19) and in the mass start event slated to close speedskating competition on Feb. 21.

Madison Chock, Evan Bates get their medal

It’s not the color they were targeting. But Madison Chock and Evan Bates finally have Olympic medals of their own.

The veteran U.S. ice dancers skated second to last in Wednesday’s free dance and executed a performance worthy of gold-medal contention.

But France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron entered Wednesday with a slim lead of 0.46 points after edging the U.S. couple in Monday’s rhythm dance.

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And they delivered a brilliant performance of their own to edge Chock and Bates with a total score of 225.82 to secure the gold medal.

Chock and Bates won silver with a combined score of 224.39, 1.43 points behind the gold-medal winners. Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier won bronze with a score of 217.74.

The individual Olympic medal was the final item on the résumé for Chock and Bates, who have been partners on the ice for 15 years and married since 2024. They’ve won two Olympic gold medals in team competition, including from Sunday night. And they entered the Milan Cortina Games with three consecutive world championships.

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Wednesday’s performance was expected to be their last in competition. If so, they’ll conclude their decorated careers with two more Olympic medals from Milan Cortina.

Chloe Kim looks just fine

Chloe Kim declared on Jan. 13 that she was “good to go” for the Olympics despite sustaining a torn left labrum in training just days earlier.

It turns out that she was right. The two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist in the halfpipe made her Milan Cortina debut in qualifying on Wednesday. As stated, she’s good to go.

Kim laid down a monster score of 90.25 on her first of two runs.

That score stood at the end of the day as the best by nearly three points. Japan’s Sara Shimizu finished second with an 87.5, and Kim’s U.S. teammate Maddie Mastro finished third with an 86.

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The scores don’t carry over to Thursday’s final, where each rider will have three runs to lay down the best score of the day. But Kim erased any doubt that her injury has made her anything but the favorite to secure her third consecutive Olympic gold medal and the sixth in seven Games in the event for the U.S.

U.S. Women go gold-silver in moguls

It was a banner day for the U.S. in women’s moguls competition. All four American competitors advanced to Wednesday’s final. Two of them finished on the podium with gold and silver medals.

Liz Lemley finished with gold thanks to a dominant performance that secured a score of 83.20, well clear of any of the skiers before her.

Her teammate Jaelin Kauf competed after her and posted an 80.77 as the only other competitor to crack 80 points.

Neither of their positions were secure until reigning Australian Olympic gold medalist Jakara Anthony competed. But Anthony fell on her final run and finished in eighth place, ensuring that Lemley and Kauf would claim gold and silver.

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France’s Perrine Laffont won bronze with a score of 78. Japan’s Hinako Tomitaka matched Laffont’s 78, but finished excruciatingly off the podium in fourth place due to a tiebreaker.

Lindsey Vonn posts painful injury update: ‘I’ll be OK’

It was clear from reports that Lindsey Vonn’s broken leg was no simple fracture.

Vonn provided some insight on Wednesday hammering that point home. In her second update since her devastating injury crash in Sunday’s alpine downhill competition, Vonn posted on Instagram that she’d undergone a third surgery to repair her fractured left tibia. She also shared a picture from her hospital bed demonstrating just how serious her injury is.

Vonn’s left leg is placed in what appears to be an external fixator, a brace that uses pins, wires and bars to stabilize severely fractured bones. She previously announced that she’d sustained a complex fracture, which Yale medicine defines as “when the bone breaks into bits and pieces, when the soft tissue surrounding the bone is severely damaged, or when the patient has other illnesses or injuries that complicate treatment and healing.”

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It’s not clear if Vonn will require more procedures to rebuild her broken leg. But she clearly has a difficult road to recovery.

Vonn expressed optimism in her recovery while giving a thumbs up alongside a note of gratitude to her medical team and supporters and well wishes for Team USA at the Olympics.

“I had my 3rd surgery today and it was successful,” Vonn wrote. “Success today has a completely different meaning than it did a few days ago. I’m making progress and while it is slow, I know I’ll be ok.”

Highlight of the day

NBC’s drone pilots are doing outstanding work getting third-person shots of athletes barreling down the halfpipe, racing on the downhill course and sledding through the twists and turns of the luge track. They also appear to be having a good time.

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On Wednesday, they offered up this gem simulating a first-person view of what it might look like to take on the Milan Cortina moguls course.

One last thing

We have an update on the saga of the cheating Norwegian biathlete. He cheated in love, not in competition, to be clear.

In case you missed it, Sturla Holm Lægreid won bronze in the 20km biathlon on Tuesday, then made the questionable decision to admit in his post-race interview — in tears — that he cheated on his girlfriend. And that he’d hoped to win her back.

The girlfriend has now weighed in. Make that the ex-girlfriend. She understandably does not sound interested in Lægreid’s post-infidelity overtures.

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The girlfriend — who chose to remain anonymous — provided this response to Norwegian tabloid VG:

“It’s hard to forgive,” she wrote. “Even after a declaration of love in front of the whole world. … I did not choose to be put in this position, and it hurts to have to be in it. We have had contact, and he is aware of my opinions on this.”

Here’s the initial interview that sparked one of the strangest story of these Games:

“There’s someone I wanted to share it with who might not be watching,” he said, via BBC translation, fighting back tears.”Six months ago I met the love of my life — the most beautiful and kindest person in the world. Three months ago I made my biggest mistake and cheated on her.

“I had the gold medal in life, and I am sure there are many people who will see things differently, but I only have eyes for her.”

It sounds like her eyes are looking elsewhere.

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026 is coming into focus, with a list of 21 finalists announced Wednesday.

It’s a diverse group of recent NBA and WNBA stars, top coaches, older names and other contributors. The headliners include Blake Griffin, Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne, Mike D’Antoni and Kelvin Sampson, all of whom are first-time nominees.

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Doc Rivers and Amar’e Stoudemire are among the bigger names getting a second look for induction. The lone referee nominated is the long-controversial Joey Crawford, while the team in the running is the 1996 U.S. women’s national team, whose Olympic dominance helped launch the WNBA the following year.

One of those 1996 players, Jennifer Azzi, is also up for individual induction.

The finalists will have their fate decided by the Hall’s 24-member Honors Committee. The new class will be announced on April 4 during Final Four weekend.

Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2026 finalists

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• 1996 United States Women’s National Team*

* denotes a first-time nominee

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Kyle Busch’s quest for a Daytona 500 win will start from the pole position Sunday.

Busch earned the top spot in front row qualifying for the Daytona 500 on Wednesday night with a lap of 183.925 mph in the second round of qualifying. Busch’s lap usurped Chase Briscoe from the top spot in the final round. Briscoe started last year’s Daytona 500 on the pole.

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Sunday will mark Busch’s 21st start in the Daytona 500 as he chases his first win in NASCAR’s biggest race. His winless streak is longer than any other active driver’s and is even longer than Dale Earnhardt’s. The seven-time champion won the 1998 Daytona 500 in his 20th start.

Earnhardt won that race while driving for Richard Childress Racing, the same team that Busch represents. The 2026 season is Busch’s fourth with RCR after moving over from Joe Gibbs Racing. And Busch is looking to recapture the form he had with JGR.

Busch, 40, has 63 Cup Series wins across 750 starts. But he hasn’t won in each of the last two seasons after scoring three wins in his first season with RCR in 2023.

At JGR, Busch won the 2015 and 2019 Cup Series titles as he won 40 races in the 2010s. Busch missed the Daytona 500 in 2015 after suffering a broken leg in the Xfinity Series race the day before. But he returned after missing 11 races and went on to win five of the remaining 25 races that season to win his first title.

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Daytona has not been terribly kind to Busch in the Cup Series, either. Across 41 starts, Busch has just one win and 13 top-10 finishes. That win came in the 2008 summer race and just five of his top 10s at the track have come in the Daytona 500.

Wednesday night’s qualifying session only locked in the top two starting spots for the Daytona 500 and determined which two non-chartered teams would make the race. Corey Heim, driving a fourth car for Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing, was the fastest driver in a non-chartered entry and he’s locked into the race. So is Justin Allgaier. He posted the second-fastest time among open teams while driving for Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s JR Motorsports.

With Jimmie Johnson also guaranteed to be part of the 41-driver field, thanks to a NASCAR provisional, six drivers are competing for the final two spots in the Daytona 500 in Thursday night’s Duel races.

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The highest finisher among Corey LaJoie, Chandler Smith and Casey Mears in the first Duel race will make the 500 while the best finishing driver among Anthony Alfredo, BJ McLeod and JJ Yeley will make the race from the second Duel.

Here are the lineups for each of the two qualifying races on Thursday night. The first race will set the inside row and the odd-numbered starting positions while the second race will set the outside row and the even-numbered starting spots.

Duel 1

1. Kyle Busch

2. Ryan Preece

3. Corey Heim

4. Alex Bowman

5. Chris Buescher

6. Joey Logano

7. Austin Dillon

8. Corey LaJoie

9. John Hunter Nemechek

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10. Brad Keselowski

11. Ryan Blaney

12. William Byron

13. Cole Custer

14. Cody Ware

15. Jimmie Johnson

16. Bubba Wallace

17. AJ Allmendinger

18. Ross Chastain

19. Shane van Gisbergen

20. Daniel Suarez

21. Chandler Smith

22. Casey Mears

23. Noah Gragson

Duel 2

1. Chase Briscoe

2. Denny Hamlin

3. Kyle Larson

4. Chase Elliott

5. Ty Gibbs

6. Christopher Bell

7. Justin Allgaier

8. Austin Cindric

9. Zane Smith

10. Michael McDowell

11. Connor Zilisch

12. Erik Jones

13. Josh Berry

14. Carson Hocevar

15. Riley Herbst

16. Todd Gilliland

17. Anthony Alfredo

18. Ty Dillon

19. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

20. Tyler Reddick

21. BJ McLeod

22. JJ Yeley

Former Colorado tight end Christian Fauria is not a backer of Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders.

The ex-NFL player said on a podcast appearance Tuesday that he was “not a fan” of Sanders as the Pro Football Hall of Famer enters his fourth season at Colorado in 2026. Colorado went 3-9 in 2025 after a 9-4 season in 2024 when Travis Hunter won the Heisman Trophy.

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Through three seasons with Sanders in charge, the Buffaloes are 16-21. Sanders coached the entirety of the season after he was diagnosed with bladder cancer in the spring.

“I’m just not a fan of the coach. I’m not. I’ll never be a fan of the coach,” Fauria said on the “Zach Gelb Show” released on Tuesday. “I love the school, and this isn’t me picking on Deion Sanders, because I picked on Joe Gibbs. The worst coach I ever had was Joe Gibbs. So me picking on Deion Sanders is nothing. I just don’t like the way he coaches football. I don’t think he’s very bright. I don’t think he can manage a game. I think there’s a lot of flash but there’s no substance. And he’s got a lot of people brainwashed.

“And we’ll see what he can do. But I’m just not a fan of him. Not a fan of his coaching style, not a fan of his messaging. There’s a lot of things internally that I know about that I’m not a fan of. And it’s just not worth my energy to sit there and follow it and go back and forth with the emperor has no clothes crowd that support him regardless of how stupid he is sometimes.

“So yeah, that’s the way I feel about it. And it bugs me that a lot of alumni just don’t speak up about it. They don’t say anything. But I will.”

Fauria’s son Caleb played three seasons at Colorado before transferring to Delaware ahead of the 2024 season. Caleb Fauria left after Sanders’ first season in charge with the Buffaloes and appeared in six games in 2023.

Christian Fauria admitted in the discussion that it was difficult to win at Colorado; Karl Dorrell won seven games when he was fired midway through his third season with the school in 2022. Colorado’s last 10-win season came in 2016, and the Buffs’ nine-win season in 2024 was their first winning record across a full season since that 10-4 year under Mike MacIntyre.

He also added that he initially supported Sanders’ hire before he soured on how Sanders’ tenure has gone so far. Over the offseason, Colorado had the No. 28 transfer class in the country, according to On3, with 41 arrivals and 34 departures. Sanders has mined the transfer portal nearly as much as any other coach since he came to Boulder — though the Buffaloes did lose star offensive tackle Jordan Seaton when he transferred to LSU late in the January transfer window.

“If relevancy and having a sold-out crowd and having people talk about you on Twitter, if that’s what you want, then congratulations, you’ve achieved it,” Fauria said. “But I just don’t know if that’s — is that the end goal? Just to be relevant? To have a new scoreboard? To have people talking about you? Or do you want to win games? Win games. The way you win games, the way you recruit, know everybody’s name, give everybody the same attention. Sing the fight song. Learn the fight song. I would say then you’ve got business. But right now all your victories are hollow in my book if all you care about is relevancy.”

The public airing of Pittsburgh Steelers grievances by ex-players hit a new level Wednesday.

This time, former All-Pro linebacker Joey Porter weighed in, coming to former head coach Mike Tomlin’s defense. He had some scathing criticism of Ben Roethlisberger along the way.

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Porter didn’t play for Tomlin. But he was a defensive assistant on Tomlin’s staff from 2015-18. And he won a Super Bowl with the Steelers under head coach Bill Cowher while playing with James Harrison and Ben Roethlisberger. Both have publicly criticized Tomlin in recent months.

Porter calls out Harrison, Roethlisberger for Tomlin criticism

Porter questioned Harrison’s motivations for criticizing Tomlin. And he saved some choice words for Roethlisberger, whom he called “not a good teammate.”

Porter made his comments on the “Not Just Football” podcast hosted by current Steeler Cam Heyward on an episode released Wednesday.

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“They tell the version of the story in Pittsburgh that they want to tell,” Porter said of Tomlin’s critics.

Porter then directly addressed Harrison, who’s criticized Tomlin repeatedly, calling him not “a great coach” and not a Hall of Famer. He says that he told Harrison that he disapproves of everything that he said about Tomlin.

“How can you say he’s not a great coach when everything that happened good to you in football was under his watch?” Porter said.

He rattled off Harrison’s accolades while playing for Tomlin, which included two All-Pro selections, a Super Bowl championship and a Defensive Player of the Year award.

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“You think the head coach didn’t have his hand in making that player?” he continued. “When you say he did nothing for you, that’s crazy. Then it’s like, why would you take the shot at the guy who changed your life?”

Porter goes off on Ben Roethlisberger

But Porter saved his most scathing comments for Roethlisberger, who said during the season before Tomlin’s postseason resignation in January that “maybe it’s a clean-house time.”

Roethlisberger quarterbacked the 2006 Steelers team on which Porter won a Super Bowl. Porter didn’t even say Roethlisberger’s name on Wednesday. He instead referred to him by his jersey, No. 7.

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“[Harrison] broke the brotherhood, then 7 definitely broke the brotherhood,” Porter said. “The s*** that 7 do, that did, that we don’t talk about, is crazy. Out of anybody that should talk, he should never grab a microphone and really talk Steeler business.

“Because if we’re talking Steeler business, his a** is foul of all foul. Like the s*** that he did is foul of all foul. He’s not a good teammate. Won a Super Bowl with him. But the person? He’s just not a good teammate. He knows that. Anybody in the Steeler building knows that. But we protected him.”

When asked for specifics, Porter said that Roethlisberger refused as a rookie to sign autographs for teammates’ families.

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“Who the hell is too cool to sign for your teammate?” Porter said. “Like, I’m not a fan. I strap on with you every day. I’m in practice with you every day”

And he said that when he returned to the Steelers as a coach, Roethlisberger “was off limits to even talk about.”

“At that point in time, he could do it however he want to and wasn’t nobody gonna say nothing,” Porter continued. “That animal was already built.”

This isn’t likely to be the last word in this Steelers saga.

The remade Pac-12 is introducing a scheduling wrinkle in 2026.

The conference announced Wednesday night that it will have a flexible schedule for the final week of the football regular season. Week 13’s matchups will officially be decided after Week 12, though they were tentatively announced on Wednesday night with Boise State visiting Utah State, Texas State at Colorado State, San Diego State at Fresno State and Oregon State at Washington State.

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With eight teams in the conference, each team plays seven conference games by playing everyone else once. A repeat matchup is needed for an eighth conference game. And with that in mind, the Pac-12 said it’s introducing the flex scheduling so it can “retain the right to adjust matchups based on the best interests of the league, including College Football Playoff considerations at that time.”

Simply put, if the Pac-12 has a chance to bolster a team’s playoff position late in the season, it’s going to do that by tweaking the schedule.

The schedule can’t change en masse, however. The four home teams listed above will play at home no matter what in Week 13 to ensure they have a fourth conference game at their own stadiums. The only teams that can be moved around are the road teams. And the Pac-12 said it will make any changes no later than the Sunday after Week 12 concludes.

Oregon State and Washington State had competed in a two-team Pac-12 for the past two seasons after they got hung out to dry when the conference effectively dissolved in the summer of 2024. Four teams went to the Big Ten, while four others went to the Big 12, and Stanford and Cal joined the ACC.

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Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State have all joined the Pac-12 from the Mountain West while Texas State came over from the Sun Belt. The Mountain West will have nine members in 2026 as Northern Illinois joins as a football-only member.

The eight-team Pac-12 will have its games on CBS, CBS Sports Network, USA and the CW in 2026 and beyond. The conference title game is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 4, on CBS.

Things have not gone well so far this season in Manhattan, Kansas, and Wildcats fans look like they’re simply done with Jerome Tang.

A large group of students threw brown paper Aldi bags on their heads during Kansas State’s 91-62 loss to Cincinnati at Bramlage Coliseum on Wednesday night. The message was clear. The students were looking for just more than $18.5 million to buy out the rest of Tang’s contract.

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It’s no wonder that, after the blowout loss that dropped the Wildcats to 1-10 in Big 12 play, Tang erupted on his program and took only two quick questions.

“I’m embarrassed for the university. I’m embarrassed for our fans, our student section. We have practice at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. We will get this right. I have no answers and no words.”

Tang is in his fourth season with the Wildcats this fall. He led the team to the NCAA tournament in his first campaign running the program, which he took over from longtime coach Bruce Weber, and they climbed as high as No. 5 in the national rankings.

But it’s been a steady decline ever since. The team hasn’t been to the NCAA tournament the last two years, and now sit at just 10-13 with seven games left in the regular season. The Wildcats have lost five straight and only just barely snuck out their one conference win late last month against Utah after a late go-ahead bucket from PJ Haggerty. The Wildcats, without a remarkable run both over the next few weeks and in the Big 12 tournament, are going to miss the NCAA tournament once again.

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But getting rid of Tang isn’t that simple. Tang’s buyout is the 12th-largest in all of college basketball, according to the Capital-Journal, and would set a record for the largest buyout in the sport’s history if Kansas State pulls the trigger. Wake Forest currently holds that record with the nearly $14.7 million buyout it gave Danny Manning in 2020. Jerry Stackhouse was believed to have received more than $15 million when he was fired from Vanderbilt, but terms of his buyout are not publicly known.

While Wildcats fans may not like it, they are very likely stuck with Tang for another year. And by the sounds of it, they’ll have a very different roster next fall.

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This season, though, feels just about lost.

“I’m pissed,” Tang said plainly.

The Winter Games have begun in Italy. From the rink to the slopes, a new generation of stars has emerged to chase gold. We’ll keep you connected to all of the thrilling moments and top stories as we track the medal race each day of the Games.

The United States is up to 12 total medals so far in Italy, and will have several opportunities to add to that count in Day 6 of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

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Here are the top five things to watch on Thursday at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics:

1. Team USA gets started in men’s hockey

NHL players are officially back at the Olympics for the first time since 2014, and Team USA’s cohort get started at 3:10 p.m. ET against Latvia.

The Americans enter the Olympic tournament as co-favorites alongside Canada. This could very well be the best team in U.S. history, with Auston Matthews, Jack Eichel, the Tkachuk brothers, the Hughes brothers and reigning Hart trophy winner Connor Hellebuyck forming a strong core.

2. Chloe Kim goes for Olympics’ first snowboarding 3-peat

There is exactly one snowboarder in Olympic history with three gold medals: Shaun White. Kim has a chance to join him in that club Thursday, while going for the Olympics’ first three-peat in snowboard halfpipe (White won his in 2006, 2010 and 2018).

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Going into the final, Kim sits in top position after leading all competitors in qualifying with a score of 90.25. The health of her shoulder, dislocated a month before the Games, was one of Team USA’s biggest storylines going in, but she looked perfectly fine while throwing down a 1080 on Wednesday.

Fellow American Maddie Mastro also qualified for the final.

3. Breezy Johnson continues her heater

The biggest Team USA skiing star of this Olympics hasn’t been Mikaela Shiffrin or Lindsey Vonn, who have won a combined 192 World Cup events. Instead, it’s been Breezy Johnson, a 30-year-old with exactly zero World Cup wins over a decade-long career.

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Johnson landed a surprise gold in the women’s downhill, then proved it wasn’t a fluke with the best downhill time in the women’s combined event (but missed out on a medal because of Shiffrin’s lackluster slalom). Thursday will be her final day of competition in the Super-G. Considering she reached her first career podium in that event just two weeks ago, underestimate her at your own peril.

4. Americans try to break men’s moguls drought

The United States hasn’t won a medal in men’s moguls since 2010 — its last gold was Jonny Moseley in 1998— but 23-year-old Nick Page could be in striking distance after a fifth-place finish in the first round of qualifying on Wednesday.

Dylan Walczyk also made it through qualifications in seventh place, while Charlie Mickel and Landon Wendler will be trying to reach the medal round in the second round of qualifications after just missing out with the 11th and 12th fastest times.

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5. Kristen Santos-Griswold’s redemption tour reaches its final leg

Santos-Griswold was a lap away from a gold medal in the 1,000-meter short track speed skating race in 2022, when a competitor’s aggressive turn sent her spinning off the podium. She’s back in 2026, competing for that elusive gold in the 500-meter race.

Santos-Griswold was one of two Americans to emerge from the heats Tuesday, winning her qualification race with a time of 42.767. She has three more rounds ahead of her on Thursday, but a win would be one of the best stories of the Olympics.

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026 (Day 6)

All times ET.

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Alpine Skiing

Super-G

• 5:30 a.m.: Women’s final (USA Network)🏅

Cross-Country Skiing

10 kilometers

• 7 a.m.: Women’s final (USA Network coverage begins at 7:15 a.m.; airs on NBC at 4 p.m.)🏅

Curling

Women’s round-robin

• 3:05 a.m.: South Korea vs. USA (airs at 9:15 a.m. on USA Network), Japan vs. Sweden, Italy vs. Switzerland, Canada vs. Denmark

• 1:05 p.m.: China vs. Great Britain, Italy vs. South Korea, Denmark vs. Japan, Sweden vs. USA (airs at 9:30 p.m. on USA Network)

Men’s round-robin

• 8:05 a.m.: Norway vs. Germany, USA vs. Switzerland (airs at 5 p.m. on CNBC), Great Britain vs. Sweden

Freestyle Skiing

Moguls

• 4 a.m.: Men’s qualifying (USA Network)

• 6:15 a.m.: Men’s final (USA Network coverage begins at 6:45 a.m.; airs on NBC at 12 p.m.)🏅

Hockey

Men’s pool play

• 6:10 a.m.: Switzerland vs. France

• 10:30 a.m.: Czechia vs. Canada (USA Network)

• 3:10 p.m.: USA vs. Latvia (USA Network), Germany vs. Denmark

Women’s pool play

• 8:20 a.m.: Finland vs. Canada — rescheduled

Luge

• 12:30 p.m.: Team relay final (NBC coverage begins at 12:45 p.m.)🏅

Short Track

• 2:15 p.m.: Women’s 500m and men’s 1000m finals (USA Network)🏅

Skeleton

3:30 a.m.: Men’s runs 1, 2 (airs on USA Network at 1:45 p.m.)

Snowboarding

Snowboard cross

• 4 a.m.: Men’s qualifying (USA Network coverage begins at 4:35 a.m.)

• 7:45 a.m.: Men’s final (USA Network coverage begins at 8:35 a.m.)🏅

Halfpipe

• 1:30 p.m.: Women’s final (NBC)🏅

Speed Skating

5000 meters

• 10:30 a.m.: Women’s final (airs at 1 p.m. on USA Network)🏅

One of the biggest names in women’s snowboarding, Chloe Kim, will be competing for the gold medal at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Thursday in the women’s half-pipe final. 25-year-old Kim came in first place during the qualifying round and is pursuing her third straight gold medal in the event despite a recent shoulder injury that some feared might show her down. She will be joined in the final by her American teammates Bea Kim and Maddie Mastro. The women’s half-pipe snowboarding final airs Thursday at 1:30 p.m. ET on Peacock and NBC. (A re-air will also be broadcast on USA at 2 a.m. Friday morning for you night owls.)

Read on for a complete schedule of every Team USA Snowboarding event at this year’s games, a rundown of who’s competing, and how to watch all the action. And if you want to learn even more about every event at this year’s Winter Games, here’s a guide to everything you need to know about the Milano Cortina Games.

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How to watch the women’s snowboarding half-pipe final:

Date: Thursday, Feb. 12

Time: 1:30 p.m. ET/10:30 a.m. PT

Location: Livigno Snow Park

TV channel: NBC

Streaming: Peacock, DirecTV, and more

Where can I stream snowboarding at the 2026 Winter Olympics?

The women’s half-pipe snowboarding final will stream live at 1:30 p.m. ET on Peacock this Thursday, Feb. 12.

Where to watch the women’s half-pipe final on TV:

Women’s snowboarding coverage on Thursday will be broadcast on NBC, which you can stream on DirecTV, Hulu + Live TV and more. You can also catch a re-air on USA at 2 a.m. Friday.