Seahawks legend Marshawn Lynch had some words of inspiration for a fellow Oakland, Calif.-raised athlete, Alysa Liu, on Thursday before Liu won Olympic gold in women’s singles free skating at Milan Cortina.

“Hey, what’s up, Miss Liu?” Lynch said to the Team USA figure skater in a selfie video. “What’s happening? Hey man, go out ...Read more

Seattle Torrent and Team USA captain Hilary Knight will carry the United States flag at the Winter Olympics' closing ceremony Sunday.

“Hilary, you’ve capped off your Olympic career with gold, but something even more golden is you’ll be leading Team USA out at the closing ceremony,” Knight’s teammate Megan Keller said Friday, ...Read more

MILAN — The U.S. and Canada faced off in the men’s and women’s hockey finals in the same Olympics twice before the Milan-Cortina Games. Both times Canada took home all the gold.

Now the Americans have a chance at a sweep of their own after the men’s team routed Slovakia, 6-2, on Friday to advance to the gold-medal game Sunday, when ...Read more

MILAN — The U.S. and Canada faced off in the men’s and women’s hockey finals in the same Olympics twice before the Milan-Cortina Games. Both times Canada took home all the gold.

Now the Americans have a chance at a sweep of their own after the men’s team routed Slovakia, 6-2, on Friday to advance to the gold-medal game Sunday, when they...Read more

MILAN — Canada survived another close call in the Milano Cortina Olympic Games’ knockout phase Sunday, overcoming a two-goal deficit to Finland and securing a spot in Sunday’s gold-medal final in the game’s final minute with a Nathan MacKinnon power-play goal for a 3-2 victory.

The victory came two days after Canada twice trailed ...Read more

Olympic broadcaster Danika Mason has issued an apology for being tipsy on air while covering the Winter Olympics in Italy.

“Look, I totally misjudged a situation. I shouldn’t have had a drink especially in these conditions. It’s cold, we’ve got altitude, and not having had dinner probably didn’t help as well,” the Australian “...Read more

Only GOATs chase ghosts. Only the best are defined by legacies, not victories.

Mikaela Shiffrin was choking.

That is what people were saying. That is what they were thinking.

When you are to skiing what Serena Williams is to tennis, there is no grace, no free passes.

As Americans, we only watch the winter sports at the Olympics. It makes ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Alysa Liu joined the realm of Bay Area figure skating legends Thursday when her extraordinary free skate program earned her Olympic gold at the Milan Cortina Games.

The 20-year-old Liu, once the youngest skater to win the U.S. championships, had icons of Northern California skating cheering her on in Italy: Kristi Yamaguchi...Read more

MILAN — Hilary Knight was a little more than two minutes away from taking home another consolation prize as a retirement gift from her final Olympic game.

In four previous Olympics, Knight lost to Canada in the gold-medal game three times. On Thursday, in the Milan-Cortina Games, the U.S. team she captains was 124 seconds from doing it again....Read more

MILAN — At the end of the biggest night in American figure skating in nearly a quarter-century, Dorothy Hamill, Kristi Yamaguchi and Brian Boitano, Olympic champions all, leaned over a wall separating the first row and the ice surface at the Milan Ice Skating Arena, waving Alysa Liu, gold medal around her neck, over to them.

They wanted to ...Read more

MILAN — She flipped her hair. She shrugged. She dusted her hands off.

Alysa Liu makes winning an Olympic gold medal look easy.

The 20-year-old became the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic singles title since 2002, electrifying the crowd at Milano Ice Skating Arena with her “MacArthur Park” program Thursday and overtaking Japanese ...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — In some families, children are expected to attend the same college as their parents or root for mom or dad's favorite team.

In Azaria Hill's family, the children were encouraged to go to the Olympics. Not to watch, but to compete.

Hill's father, Virgil, a boxer, earned a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Games. Hill'...Read more

MILAN — She flipped her hair. She shrugged. She dusted her hands off.

Alysa Liu makes winning an Olympic gold medal look easy.

The 20-year-old became the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic singles title since 2002, electrifying the crowd at Milano Ice Skating Arena with her “MacArthur Park” program Thursday and overtaking Japanese ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Casey Wasserman faced more calls Wednesday to resign from his position leading the 2028 L.A. Olympics — the latest push to oust the embattled mogul in the aftermath of the recent Jeffrey Epstein files release.

During a gubernatorial forum in Sacramento, candidates were asked whether Wasserman should step down. Former ...Read more

MILAN — Even for Jordan Stolz, making history is not as easy as one, two, three.

The 21-year-old star's quest for a speedskating triple crown came up short in the 1,500-meter race Thursday as Stolz settled for silver behind China's Zhongyan Ning at the Milan-Cortina Games.

Ning set an Olympic record, blazing the oval at Milano Speed Skating ...Read more

MILAN — A gold medal that seemed firmly in the grasp of the U.S. women’s hockey team nearly slipped through its fingers in the final of the Milan-Cortina Games on Thursday, but the Americans rallied to win, 2-1, on Megan Keller’s goal just over four minutes into overtime.

Kristin O’Neill’s short-handed goal less than a minute into the...Read more

U.S. hockey star Hilary Knight got engaged to her girlfriend, American speedskater Brittany Bowe, and shared the news a day before the U.S. women’s hockey team is set to compete in the gold medal game.

Knight, 36, proposed to Bowe, 37, during the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. She shared an Instagram video of herself dropping to one knee with...Read more

MILAN — With less than eight minutes remaining in regulation, a line of Team Canada players stood on the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena next to their bench like their 41 million countryman frozen in shock.

Canada, the pre-tournament favorite, had just fallen behind Czechia a second time in the teams’ Milano Cortina Olympic Games ...Read more

MILAN — The U.S. men haven’t stood on the podium at the end of an Olympic hockey tournament in 16 years and haven’t played for a medal in 12.

In fact, it’s been so long since an American hockey team took home a prize from the Winter Games none of the players on this year’s team, the second youngest in the Milan-Cortina competition, ...Read more

So far, the American women’s hockey team has pulverized the field at the Olympics like a wrecking ball blasting through a house of cards. Team USA has been clinical, unrelenting and overwhelming.

“I think they just come at you in waves,” three-time Olympian and Eagan, Minn., native Natalie Darwitz said.

When the Frost’s Kendall Coyne ...Read more