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Eileen Gu Balks at Question on 'Lost' Olympic Golds
Eileen Gu Balks
at Question on
'Lost' Olympic
Golds
2026 Olympics
Feb 18, 2026 11:20 AM CST

Eileen Gu Balks at Question on 'Lost' Olympic Golds

Gu calls query 'ridiculous' on whether 2 silvers won at 2026 Games are really '2 golds lost'

(Newser) - Eileen Gu isn't sweating the what-ifs. After becoming the most decorated women's freestyle skier in Olympic history with five medals, the 22-year-old US citizen competing for China was asked at a Milan Cortina press conference if she viewed her pair of 2026 silver medals as "two silvers...

Shiffrin Ends Her Medal Drought on Top
Shiffrin Ends Her
Medal Drought on Top
2026 Olympics
Feb 18, 2026 9:02 AM CST

Shiffrin Ends Her Medal Drought on Top

8-event Olympic drought ends with a dominant slalom victory in Cortina

(Newser) - Mikaela Shiffrin saved her best for last in Cortina. In her final event of the 2026 Winter Games, the American skier finally claimed slalom gold, snapping an Olympic medal drought that covered eight straight events stretching back to 2018, per NPR . Racing under clear blue skies, Shiffrin built a commanding...

Norway's Klaebo Continues 'Golden Run' at Games
Norwegian Rules
Cross-Country
Slopes, Along
With a Dog
2026 Olympics
Feb 18, 2026 8:17 AM CST

Norwegian Rules Cross-Country Slopes, Along With a Dog

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo earns 5th gold medal of Games, while a pup infiltrates the women's heat

(Newser) - Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo's golden run at Milan Cortina continued Wednesday as the Norwegian cross-country ski star secured his fifth gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics—and a record 10th overall—in the men's team sprint. Klaebo beat back a challenge from the United States to improve on his...

Olympic Skier Explains His Walk to the Woods
Olympic Skier Explains
His Walk to the Woods
2026 olympics
Feb 17, 2026 1:05 PM CST

Olympic Skier Explains His Walk to the Woods

Norway's McGrath needed 'peace and quiet' after a tough loss

(Newser) - Norwegian slalom star Atle Lie McGrath came to the start gate chasing a gold medal and ended up hunting for quiet in the trees. The 25-year-old, leading after the first run in Bormio on Monday, missed a gate on his second run, erasing not just gold but any spot on...

'Quad God' on Stunning Falls: 'Felt Like I Had No Control
Malinin: I Was Hit With 'Negative
Thoughts' Before Skate
2026 Olympics
Feb 14, 2026 6:50 AM CST

Malinin: I Was Hit With 'Negative Thoughts' Before Skate

US figure-skating favorite for gold speaks on his disastrous performance in Milan

(Newser) - Ilia Malinin arrived in Milan as the man to beat. He left with a team gold medal, but also with an eighth-place finish in the event that was supposed to define his career. The 21-year-old American, dubbed the "Quad God" for his unmatched jumping ability, needed only a solid...

Athlete Convicted of Fraud Wins Olympic Gold Over Victim
Athlete Convicted of Fraud
Wins Olympic Gold Over Victim
2026 Olympics
Feb 12, 2026 12:55 PM CST

Athlete Convicted of Fraud Wins Olympic Gold Over Victim

France's Julia Simon edges past scammed teammate, who came in 80th, in 15km biathlon

(Newser) - A biathlete who admitted ripping off her teammate's credit card just skied past her to an Olympic title. France's Julia Simon, 29, took gold in the women's 15km individual biathlon in Italy's Milan Cortina Games, while Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, the teammate she defrauded, finished a distant 80th,...

Some Winter Olympics Medals Are Already Falling Apart
Winter Olympics
Medals Are Falling Apart
2026 OLYMPICS
Feb 9, 2026 12:12 PM CST

Winter Olympics Medals Are Falling Apart

'Don't jump in them,' Breezy Johnson advises after ribbon detaches from medal

(Newser) - Some of the first medals awarded at the Winter Olympics are already falling apart. Organizers of the Milan-Cortina Winter Games say they are urgently examining why multiple medals have separated from their ribbons soon after being awarded. US alpine skier Breezy Johnson, who took gold in the women's downhill,...

Greg Louganis Sells His Medals
Greg Louganis Sells His Medals
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Sep 6, 2025 11:52 AM CDT

Greg Louganis Sells His Medals

'I needed the money,' says famed Olympic diver, who also sold home to start life anew in Panama

(Newser) - Five-time Olympic medalist Greg Louganis is now down three of those medals, reports NJ.com , saying in a Facebook post that he's leaving the country and that "I needed the money" to make that happen. The fabled American diver, who won gold medals in the 1984 and 1988...

Musk, Rowling, Trump Tweeted About Her. Now She's Suing

Olympic boxer and gold medalist Imane Khelif files criminal complaint over cyberbullying on her gender

(Newser) - The Algerian boxer who faced global scrutiny over her gender on the path to an Olympic gold medal is suing her bullies. Imane Khelif has filed a criminal complaint in France alleging "aggravated cyber harassment" from Elon Musk, JK Rowling, and others on Musk's social platform X. Though...

After Tie With US, Some in China Count Gold Differently

Enlarged vision of the nation lifts Chinese total to 44 in posts after Olympics

(Newser) - With a population the size of China's, there are bound to be few people unwilling to settle for a tie with the US at the Paris Olympics at 40 gold medals each. The official result generally was cheered in China, and a state media post on Weibo with the...

US Women Capture First Soccer Gold Since 2012
US Women Top Brazil for Gold
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Aug 10, 2024 1:00 PM CDT

US Women Top Brazil for Gold

Americans win first Games since 2012 after Swanson's goal, Naeher's saves

(Newser) - The US women's soccer team won its fifth Olympic gold medal on Saturday by beating Brazil 1-0 at the Paris Games, touching off a celebration made possible by Mallory Swanson's second-half goal and Alyssa Naeher's clutch saves. It's the team's first gold medal since 2012...

Olympic Medal Tradition Started in the US

Now, 120 years later, that gold medal is mostly silver

(Newser) - The Olympic Games are nearly 3,000 years old. The gold, silver, and bronze medals awarded, only 120 years. NPR digs into the tradition that feels as long as time, finding it can be traced to an American city. Olympic medals themselves hail from the first occurrence of the modern...

Gymnast Turned Shooter Wins Guatemala's First Olympic Gold

Adriana Ruano was forced to pivot after injury ended her career

(Newser) - A spinal injury ended Adriana Ruano's chances of competing at the Olympics as a gymnast. She came back as a shooter and won Guatemala's first gold medal on Wednesday, the AP reports. Ruano was training for the 2011 world championships in gymnastics, a qualifier for the London Olympics...

Some Olympians Return Home to More Than Just Applause

In Hong Kong, gold medalists earn $768K for their efforts; other nations offer lots of other perks

(Newser) - For some Olympic medalists, after the podium come the perks. CNBC notes that the International Olympic Committee doesn't hand out prize money itself to those who take home gold, but Forbes looked into the more than 200 countries participating in the Paris Games and found more than a handful...

Italy Suffers Tough Loss, Gets Trolled With Pineapple Pizza

Italy files complaints over fencing final loss to Hong Kong's Cheung Ka Long

(Newser) - Hong Kong's Cheung Ka Long became the third man to defend his title in the individual foil, a fencing event, on Monday. In doing so, he unknowingly launched what the South China Morning News describes as an "all-out war" online. Ka Long had narrowly defeated Italy's Filippo...

US Hurdler Negotiated Deal to Get Long-Denied Gold in Paris

Lashinda Demus lost in the 2012 Games to Russian Natalya Antyukh, who had been doping

(Newser) - There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone found out later, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will get is a great day under the Eiffel Tower on Aug. 9, where...

Paris' Olympic Medals Feature a Little Something Special

Yep, that's an actual piece of the Eiffel Tower going home with victorious athletes

(Newser) - An Olympic medal with an inlaid piece of the Eiffel Tower. How's that for a monumental prize? A hexagonal, polished chunk of iron taken from the iconic landmark is being embedded in each gold, silver, and bronze medal that will be hung around athletes' necks at the July 26-Aug....

Measuring Error Cancels Winner's World Record

Route at Pan American Games turns out to be almost 2 miles too short

(Newser) - Peru's Kimberly García thought she set the world record in the women's 20 kilometers walk race at the Pan American Games in Chile. She later found out she didn't. Organizers of the largest multi-sports in the continent said in a statement that the times of the...

American Set to Win Olympic Gold—for 2012 Race

Lashinda Demus recognized as winner after Russian stripped of medal due to doping

(Newser) - More than a decade after the race was run, Lashinda Demus is set to enter the record books as the first American woman to win the 400-meter hurdles at the Olympics. Russian 400-meter hurdler Natalya Antyukh is being stripped of her gold medal from the London 2012 Olympics due to...

Collector's Reaction to 'Utterly Unique' Medal: 'Holy [Expletive]'

Only gold Daniel Morgan at Cowpens Medal, minted in 1839, could go at auction for up to $500K

(Newser) - In 1839, the Philadelphia Mint created a single gold medal in tribute to the courage shown by Revolutionary War Gen. Daniel Morgan at 1781's Battle of Cowpens . The medal was minted to replace the original given to Morgan, after that one was stolen in an 1818 robbery at a...

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