9 medal occasions, determine skating, USA hockey – NBC Los Angeles

What to Know

• Day 9 of the 2026 Milan Cortina Video games has 9 medal occasions throughout eight completely different sports activities, together with alpine snowboarding, snowboarding, skeleton and velocity skating.
• Group USA star Mikaela Shiffrin missed the rostrum within the girls’s large slalom, an occasion she gained gold in on the 2018 Video games. She may have one final likelihood at a medal in Milan Cortina within the slalom on Wednesday.
• U.S. flag bearer Erin Jackson was unable to defend her gold medal within the girls’s velocity skating 500m, ending fifth total.
• Bobsled obtained underway with the primary girls’s monobob runs. Reigning silver medalist Elana Meyers Taylor, defending Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries and 2025 world champion Kaysha Love are all within the prime 5 after two runs.
• The determine skating competitors continues with the pairs brief program at 1:45 p.m. ET. The U.S. has by no means gained gold on this occasion, with its final podium end coming on the 1988 Video games.
• The USA males’s hockey crew seems to win its group because it takes on Leon Draisaitl-led Germany at 3:10 p.m. ET to shut out the preliminary spherical. Group winners obtain byes to the quarterfinals.