The U.S. is going for gold. Americans Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse defeated reigning Olympic gold medalists Amos Mosaner and Stefania Constantini of Italy in their curling mixed doubles semifinal on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fireworks as the Olympic cauldron under the Arco della Pace in Milan is lit by Alberto Tomba and Deborah Compagnoni.

The XXV Winter Olympic Games from Italy officially begin on Friday, with 92 nations and nearly 3,000 athletes competing. There will be 116 medal events, with new ones in skeleton, ski jumping, ...

The saying “Let the Games begin!” first applied to the Winter Olympics in 1924. That was when the first official Olympic Games took place, representing the culmination of more than three decades of ...

The wait is finally over — the 2026 Winter Olympics have arrived, bringing the world's best athletes to the historic cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. After an action-packed opening ...

Stream every moment and every medal of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games on Peacock. Read more NBC News coverage of the Olympics and the athletes competing. Coverage on this live blog has ended. Please ...

The opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics is complete at Milan's San Siro Stadium. Featuring simultaneous ceremonies in the mountain towns of Cortina, Livigno and Predazzo, the ...

Olympic gold medals haven’t been actual gold for over a century. The last solid, 24-karat gold medal to be awarded was at the 1912 Games in Stockholm, according to the International Olympic Committee.

Every Olympics opening ceremony is an advertisement—for the host country, for the Olympics themselves, for the notion of a free-trading global order competing through sport, in the same place and on ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics are officially underway after Friday's Opening Ceremony festivities at Milano San Siro Olympic Stadium in Milan, Italy. The Opening Ceremony featured the expected Italian ...

The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are officially open with the conclusion of Friday’s Opening Ceremony. This was a historic Opening Ceremony, where two Olympic cauldrons were used for the first ...

As the 2026 Winter Olympic Games kick off with the opening ceremony, at least a dozen athletes will represent AIN. The three-letter acronym isn't an abbreviation of a country delegation — its athletes ...