Stars from the North American National Hockey League will play in the Winter Olympics, the head of the International Ice Hockey Federation said on Sunday, as Milan-Cortina organisers and the International Olympic Committee gave the thumbs up to the Games' main competition rink.

This week in Olympic sports features the Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships starting Wednesday, plus Lindsey Vonn back in action on the Alpine skiing World Cup. After figure skating nationals end Saturday, a committee picks the Olympic team based not only off nationals results, but also performances over the last year of competitions.

Shawn Johnson believes the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team can win at the 2028 Los Angeles Games even without Simone Biles, citing the country's historical dominance in the sport.

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina are set to begin on Feb. 6, and will run until Feb. 22. The Winter Paralympic Games will then begin on March 6 and will run until March 15. Italy will be hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics for the third time, with Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo as the official hosts of the event.

MILAN — Olympic organizers are “100%” confident the NHL won’t pull out of the Milan Cortina Games with the new ice hockey arena finally ready. Or almost.

As Milan prepares to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, the city’s Catholic archdiocese launched a multi-year program that uses sport to promote values such as inclusion and solidarity among children and

Over years of legal battles, fallout from those drug cases meant Russians had to compete in Pyeongchang in 2018 as “Olympic Athletes from Russia” and in Beijing in 2022 as the Russian Olympic Committee, both times without the national anthem.

A Tokyo Olympics volunteer helped an athlete find his way, setting the stage for an unforgettable gold metal moment.