President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev awarded the champion of the XXV Winter Olympic Games, Mikhail Shaidorov, at a ceremony held at the Akorda residence, citing Akorda's press service.

The U.S. is a winter sport powerhouse, second only to Norway. The wins at the Milan Cortina Games come disproportionately from athletes who emerged in a handful of states from Alaska to Vermont.

Relive the closing ceremony with highlights, reactions and key moments you may have missed from the Winter Olympics finale.

American and international stars delivered huge performances in big moments that made 2026 elite and revived the Winter Games ...

The U.S. men's hockey team beat Canada 2-1 in overtime in a thrilling Olympic final game exactly 46 years after Team USA beat ...

The victory by the U.S. men's hockey team over the heavily favored Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics is widely ...

Athletes from more than 90 countries battled in 116 events over 16 days, and USA TODAY tracked each nation's podium finishes.

Norway’s director of elite sport sounded a little hoarse when he answered the phone to CNN Sports. Tore Øvebrø said he had just caught a cold, but he admitted that his raspy voice might also have ...

The 11th gold broke the record set at the last Olympics on U.S. soil — in Salt Lake City in 2002, which has long stood as a ...

The U.S. team won its record-breaking 11th gold medal of the Winter Olympics when the trio of Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis took the title in mixed aerials ...

From a historical standpoint, that gold also pushed the U.S. to 11 Olympic titles at the 2026 Winter Games, the most gold medals ever won by an American team at a single Winter Olympics, surpassing ...