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By JAMES ELLINGWORTH
Associated Press
Associated Press
Published: February 15, 2026 astatine 11:34 AM
MILAN (AP) — Federica Brignone and Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo glided into past astatine the Winter Olympics connected Sunday successful precise antithetic ways.
Host federation Italy was delighted arsenic Brignone's sensational comeback continued with a 2nd golden medal of the Olympics, inactive successful symptom aft a severely breached limb past year.
Klaebo has the astir golden medals of immoderate Winter Olympian successful past with 9 aft taking golden with Norway's cross-country men's relay team.
Brignone does it again
Winning 1 golden medal successful super-G made Brignone consciousness similar she was surviving successful a movie.
What bash large movies get? A sequel.
The Italian skier known arsenic the Tiger was unbeatable successful the elephantine slalom for her 2nd golden of the Olympics and 5th vocation medal, breaking her ain grounds arsenic the oldest women's Alpine skiing Olympic champion for bully measure.
There were 2 metallic medalists arsenic Sara Hector and Thea Louise Stjernesund finished successful precisely the aforesaid clip and bowed to Brignone to people her victory.
After breaking aggregate bones successful March, Brignone needed 2 surgeries and 42 stitches to enactment her limb backmost together. She lone returned to skiing successful January.
Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States was 11th and has present failed to triumph a medal successful 8 consecutive Olympic races since the Winter Games successful 2018.
Record ninth golden medal for Norwegian skier
Klaebo stands unsocial arsenic the astir palmy Winter Olympian of each clip aft winning his ninth vocation golden medal successful cross-country skiing.
Norway’s Prime Minister was watching arsenic Klaebo anchored his team's relay golden Sunday. That broke a necktie connected 8 golden medals with 3 different Norwegians: cross-country skiers Marit Bjoergen and Bjoern Daehlie and biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.
Klaebo could get into treble figures by the extremity of the Milan Cortina Games. His adjacent chances for a 10th golden are successful the squad sprint connected Wednesday oregon the 50-kilometer contention connected Saturday. He's inactive lone 29.
Another triumph for the moguls king
Mikael Kingsbury of Canada has won astir everything determination is to triumph successful moguls skiing. When they added a caller Olympic event, helium won that too.
Kingsbury took gold, his 5th vocation Olympic medal, successful the inaugural dual moguls lawsuit Sunday, 3 days aft settling for metallic successful the accepted moguls lawsuit successful a astonishment triumph for Australian Cooper Woods.
Britain won its first-ever Olympic golden successful immoderate snowfall athletics with triumph for Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale successful squad snowboardcross.
Biathlon saw a archetypal Olympic golden for Italy arsenic Lisa Vitozzi won the women's pursuit, hours aft Sweden's Martin Ponsiluoma's astonishment golden successful the men's event.
Still to come
Later Sunday, Dutch speedskater Jutta Leerdam and Erin Jackson of the United States vie for the women's 500-meter gold. Leerdam, whose fiance is influencer and boxer Jake Paul, is aiming for a 2nd golden aft winning the 1,000, portion Jackson won the 500 astatine the 2022 Olympics and carried the U.S. emblem astatine the opening ceremonial successful Milan.
Medals are besides connected connection successful the women's skis jumping ample elevation lawsuit and squad skeleton. The pairs fig skating contention begins with the escaped skate and the United States plays Germany successful men's hockey aiming to unafraid a quarterfinal place.
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