2026 Winter Olympics, Day 8
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Follow live text, BBC TV coverage, radio commentary, reaction and updates from the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.
Pinheiro Braathen grew up in Norway but switched to represent Brazil, his mother's country, and now has first Winter Olympics medal for South America.
The 2026 Winter Olympics continue Saturday with medal events in Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country skiing, skeleton, snowboarding, and speed skating.
Of the 16 sports at the Winter Olympics, drones have captured footage in all but hockey, curling, short-track speed skating and figure skating, where the organizers felt traditional cameras, including overhead cameras that move on cables, were a better fit.
Olympic gold medalist Marianne Timmer alleges confrontation with Snoop Dogg’s security at Milan’s speed skating venue.
Malinin is the son of two Russian-born Olympic figure skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who competed for Uzbekistan at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. They later moved to Virginia, where Ilia was born in 2004. He started skating at age 6.
In one of the most stunning collapses in Olympic figure skating history, Malinin plummeted from a near-certain gold medal all the way to eighth place.
The Kings forward left Switzerland's group-stage game against Canada after getting tangled up with Tom Wilson along the boards.