Today's Milan Cortina Olympics Headlines

Tuesday, February 17

Good Morning! Before you read another word, say "MONOBOB" out loud. It sure is a fun word to say, and it played a big role in history at these 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina on Monday. Elana Meyers Taylor riding a monobob into the record books, winning her sixth winter medal and her FIRST GOLD, tying the legend Bonnie Blair for most medals by a United State female Olympian at six! Speaking of legends, the Team USA Women's hockey surged on. They have shattered an Olympics record for longest shutout streak and now are set to play Canada Thursday night in the Gold Medal game! This team is the talk of Milan and that rivalry rematch promises to be one of the hottest tickets of these games! What will Tuesday bring? More drama? We can only sit back and wait and see! -Have a good one, Eli!

Our Eli Rosenberg is on the ground in Milan Cortina! Follow along:

The U.S. women’s hockey team, whose roster features 10 players with New England ties, will face Canada for the gold medal.

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Lindsey Vonn is back in the U.S.

The American alpine skiing star flew back following a week of treatment in Italy after breaking her leg during the women’s downhill event at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

“Haven’t stood on my feet in over a week… been in a hospital bed immobile since my race,” Vonn wrote on social media Monday night. “And although I’m not yet able to stand, being back on home soil feels amazing.

Women’s monobob came down to the bare seconds on Monday.

Four hundredths of a second, to be exact.

Elana Meyers Taylor claimed her first ever Olympic gold medal in the second ever women’s monobob competition, edging Germany’s Laura Nolte in a thrilling finish.

Winning an Winter Olympic medal facing forward is already difficult enough.

Now try doing it backward.

That’s how Japanese freestyle skier Ikuma Horishima eventually won his silver medal in the men’s dual moguls Sunday at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.

Since short track speed skating debuted at the Olympics in 1992, it has shared a venue with figure skating — meaning the rink has to switch between two different kinds of ice for the two events. The person in charge of that switch? The Ice Master.