Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin are halfway to pairs figure skating gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics.

Team USA has beaten Germany 5-1 to cap a perfect 3-0 record in the preliminary round at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Auston Matthews scored two goals for Team USA, while Zach Werenski, Brock Faber and Tage Thompson each added one.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Ami Nakai and Japanese teammate Kaori Sakamoto upstaged Alysa Liu and the rest of the “Blade Angels” from the U.S. to take the lead after the short program in the women’s figure skating competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Tuesday.

The U.S. men’s hockey team defeated Germany on Sunday at the 2026 Winter Olympics and earned a bye to the quarterfinals.

Slovakia and Germany face off in the men's ice hockey quarterfinals of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina on Wednesday.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The two-man bobsled competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics is four runs over two days, the same format the event has used for nearly a century. Germany's Johannes Lochner might have ended this year's event in exactly 54.

Team USA men’s hockey faces Germany in a preliminary game at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics on Sunday, Feb. 15 at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.

Leon Draisaitl is already the greatest Germany-born hockey player ever. He has 1,036 points with the Edmonton Oilers and is only 30 years old. He won the Hart Trophy as the NHL most valuable player in 2020 and led the League with 52 goals last season.

SportsLine expert Matt Severance reveals his United States vs. Slovakia picks for the Olympics men's hockey Friday semifinal

Canada has beaten Germany 5-1 in the quarterfinals of the women's hockey tournament at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Brianne Jenner, Claire Thompson, Sarah Fillier, Blayre Turnbull and Marie-Philip Poulin scored for Canada, while Franziska Feldmeier scored a short-handed goal for Germany.

Slovakia and Germany will meet in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, with a semifinal berth on the line in what projects as one of the most evenly matched elimination games of the tournament.