Kira Kimura stunned the top favourites to lead a Japanese one-two and claim men's snowboarding big air gold on Saturday at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. Kimura scored a total of 179.

The American-born gold-medalist skier who competes for China is the highest-paid athlete in the Winter Olympics.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — That ever-growing bench of Japanese snowboarders runs deep. Jumps very high, too. The country that has steadily been asserting mastery over the halfpipe took that show to the Winter Olympics big air contest Saturday night,

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Eileen Gu skied backwards out of the slopestyle starting gate, jumped onto the first rail, did a 270-degree spin and landed on the snow. Then, she fell. For the next hour, as she prepared for her second,

Most countries that have competed at the Winter Olympics have taken home medals in multiple sports over the years. There are also some that have emerged

The first medals of the 2026 Winter Olympics were awarded Saturday in men's downhill skiing and women's cross-country Skiathlon.

While the U.S. is on top of the overall Olympic medal count, it is not the country that dominates winter sports like the 2026 Milano Cortina Games in Italy.