CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Ami Nakai and Japanese teammate Kaori Sakamoto upstaged Alysa Liu and the rest of the “Blade Angels” from the U.S. to take the lead after the short program in the women’s figure skating competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Tuesday.

The Olympic figure skating pairs competition ended with Japan taking gold and Team USA getting two top 10 finishes. See full results, highlights.

Japan won its first Olympic pairs gold and Georgia earned its first Winter Games medal at Milan Cortina 2026, rewriting figure skating history.

MILAN (AP) — Alysa Liu is left to bear the ambitions of the American figure skating team on Thursday night, when the last of the “Blade Angels” with a legitimate shot at the Olympic gold medal tries to catch Japanese teammates Ami Nakai and Kaori Sakamoto during the women's free skate at the Milan Cortina Games.

Apparently skiing backwards is becoming a new fad these days. The 2026 Olympics have been wild so far, and Japan’s Ikuma Horishima’s insane finish to the downhill dual moguls event was just the next on the list.

The 2026 Winter Olympics continues to outperform itself with wild finishes across various events, and Japanese skier Ikuma Horishima stunned fans Sunday. During the downhill skiing dual moguls events,

Japan's Ikuma Horishima botched his landing on his last jump in the men's round of 16 Sunday at the Milan Cortina Olympics, then bounced back up to ski backward over the finish line. And he still won.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The best snowboard contest in history came down to one trick. Half a spin, really. Scotty James built up speed, launched himself above the coping of the halfpipe and took his Olympic hopes and dreams for a twirl through the clear,