• Medal winners: Italy’s Francesca Lollobrigida broke a women’s speed skating record in front of the home crowd, Swiss skier Franjo von Allmen won Milan Cortina’s first gold medal, and Japan’s Kira Kimura wowed the judges in the snowboard big air competition.
• Americans on snow and ice: American teen ice skating phenom Ilia Malinin made his Olympic debut. Lindsey Vonn skied even faster than Friday, finishing today’s training run in third place despite a ruptured ACL.
• Outside the Games: Environmental and social justice groups protested against the Olympics in Milan, and a smaller group of activists clashed with police at the end of a peaceful march. Meanwhile, officials are investigating an apparent rail sabotage similar to disruptions at the 2024 Paris Games.
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It’s been an exciting first full day of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
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