Norwegian dominance, a U.S. hockey sweep and figure skating upsets ignited the 2026 Winter Olympics, which concluded Sunday in Verona, Italy.

Stolz was trying to become the second American − Eric Heiden won five in 1980 − to win four individual medals in a single Winter Olympics.

Alysa Liu finished the night in third place, Isabeau Levito finished in eighth and Amber Glenn is in 13th place after a popped jump. That puts extra pressure on all of them for Thursday's medal event.

By Pearl Josephine Nazare MILAN, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Jordan Stolz may have entered the Milano Cortina Games as the headline act in speed skating, but it was Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida who transformed the home oval into a theatre of triumph and national emotion.

Olympic champion Alysa Liu’s rise to skating superstardom came with an extraordinary financial commitment, with her father revealing he invested close to $1 million to support her career.

Have you seen a panda ice skate? If not, the Olympics provided the viral moment of the event that somehow involved Jackie Chan.

Watching my favorite Winter Olympics event, the Freestyle Kung-Fu Panda Magical Knockdown of Sub-Zero and Deadpool.