On Thursday, February 19, Alysa Liu scored the gold medal in the women's free skate final at the 2026 Olympics. The post Alysa Liu Announcement Made After Olympic Gold Win appeared first on Heavy Sports.

The 21-year-old Ilia Malinin was heard on a hot mic lamenting his lack of Olympic experience and how it affected him at the 2026 Games.

Women's skicross world champion Fanny Smith says her trust in skiing officials remains in tatters as she eyes potentially her last chance for Olympic gold at the Milan Cortina Winter Games

Eileen Gu held her nerve to reach the final of the women's freeski halfpipe on Thursday in an event marred by former Olympic champion Cassie Sharpe's horrific crash. Gu, 22, came to the Games in Italy targeting a clean sweep of golds in her three events after winning two golds and a silver at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Mikaela Shiffrin is an Olympic champion again after roaring to victory in the slalom on Wednesday to bring an end to her eight-year medal drought on the biggest stage of all.Before Wednesday Breezy Johnson's downhill gold had been the highlight for the US and she would have had at least another medal had Shiffrin not been 15th fastest in the slalom run of the team combined.

At the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, the Russian Olympic Committee team was stripped of their gold medals after 15-year-old Kamila Valieva failed a drug test and was handed a four-year ban. Her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, has long served in the same role for Petrosian, who also shares the same choreographer and training site in Moscow as Valieva.