Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid won his first individual Olympic medal on Tuesday, then immediately confessed to cheating — but not in the 20-kilometer individual race.

It takes a special kind of athlete to fly off a ski jump at highway speeds before immediately turning around to race cross-country over miles of snow.

By Alan Baldwin CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Austria's Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber won women's team combined Olympic gold on Tuesday as overwhelming U.S. favourites Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin missed out on the podium in a major shock.

Breezy Johnson is poised to earn her second gold of the Olympics on Tuesday — as long as American teammate Mikaela Shiffrin can maintain the U.S.'s advantage in the new team combined event.

United States' Lindsey Vonn crashes into a gate during an alpine ski women's downhill race, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.

United States skier Lindsey Vonn provided a lengthy update after her crash during the alpine ski women’s downhill at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics resulted in a leg fracture on on Sunday.

But her chances of winning a medal at 41 came to an abrupt and painful end when she crashed in the women's downhill.