The primary gold medal of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Video games was awarded on Saturday on the males’s downhill race.
On a picture-perfect day in Bormio, Swiss racer Franjo von Allmen powered by the difficult course in 1 minute, 51.61 seconds.
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His time was ok to face up to the problem of Italy’s Giovanni Franzoni, who completed 0.2 of a second behind von Allmen to take the silver medal. Franzoni’s teammate, Dominik Paris, had a quick run to take bronze and knock Marco Odermatt of Crew Switzerland off the rostrum.
The very best-ranked American within the males’s downhill was Kyle Negomir, who completed tenth.
“My purpose was to place down one thing the place I may stand within the end and say I did not have any regrets,” Negomir mentioned.
Sweden goes 1-2 in girls’s skiathlon
Crew Sweden has a robust exhibiting on the girls’s 10km+10km skiathlon, taking gold and silver on Saturday at Tesero Cross-Nation Snowboarding Stadium in Val di Fiemme, Italy.
Frida Karlsson powered to the highest of the rostrum, protecting the 20-kilometer course (just a bit greater than 12 miles) in 53 minutes, 45.2 seconds.
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Her teammate, two-time reigning world champ Ebba Andersson, crossed the end line 51 seconds later. Heidi Weng, of Norway, took bronze.
Both a Swedish or Norwegian girl has received the skiathlon gold medal within the final 5 Winter Olympics.
For Crew USA’s Jessie Diggins, an early fall knocked the American star out of medal competition. She completed eighth, 2 minutes, 21.1 seconds behind Karlsson.
Diggins mentioned the setback did little to dampen her confidence.
“I’ve had a lot love and a lot help from so many wonderful folks again dwelling,” Diggins mentioned. “And I simply actually wished to deliver them pleasure and simply go on the market and race my coronary heart out and that is what I did as we speak. I am actually happy with that.”
Whereas the end result ended Diggins’ medal hopes within the opening race of the Olympic cross-country program, she mentioned her efficiency additionally supplied reassurance.
“Oh, there’s so many races to go,” Diggins mentioned. “I used to be actually happy with this skate half. I am actually inspired by the place my physique is at. There’s so many variables that want to come back collectively to have a very good race.”
