The 2026 Winter Olympics have presented many amazing storylines thus far, and American skater Maxim Naumov added to that Friday during his final skate at the Milan-Cortina event. Naumov has become a Team USA favorite in recent years,

Team USA curler Rich Ruohonen has broken a Winter Olympics record simply with his age. Ruohonen, 54, subbed into a men’s curling game during the 2026 Winter Olympics, making him the oldest American to compete in the Winter Games in nearly 100 years.

The United States of America’s women’s team claimed their own piece of Olympic history in Friday’s third round-robin session when they beat Canada by 9-8 — a first-ever Olympic victory by American women over their Canadian opposition.

The athlete attracted the president's ire after saying that he had "mixed emotions" about representing the United States at the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics

HISTORY AT THE #WinterOlympics. 🇺🇸👏 54-year-old curler Rich Ruohonen waited more than 30 YEARS to make his Olympic debut. With the USA's game out of reach, his team subbed him in, making him the oldest American ever to compete at the Winter Games. pic.twitter.com/Pqe91JClmn

When it comes to the Winter Olympics, figure skating is always one of the most anticipated, most-watched events of the two-week extravaganza. That is once again the case with the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Four years after Breezy Johnson crashed while training at Cortina and ended her hopes of competing in the 2022 Winter Games, the American skier reclaimed the narrative on this iconic slope with a gold medal in the 2026 Olympic downhill race.

When American speedskating phenom Jordan Stolz and his family went out to eat while in the Netherlands for a World Cup event a few months ago, they didn’t have the luxury of choosing a restaurant for the type of food it served.

Sibling stoat mascots, Tina and Milo, are representing the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, respectively. One ecologist calls stoats “the greatest athletes of the animal world.”

France’s polarizing figure skating duo of Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron narrowly edged America’s Madison Chock and Evan Bates to win gold in the ice dance competition at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Olympian Rich Ruohonen started his Olympics journey at the trials in 1988, but never made it to the Games. Now, he's leaving as an Olympian and the oldest American to be a part of Team USA in the Winter Games.