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By Hannah Ryan, CNN (CNN) — On the ice, they’re sworn enemies. At the 2026 Winter Olympics, they’re on opposing sides of a historic and storied rivalry between two proud nations and both will be fighting tooth and nail throughout the competition to emerge victorious. Off the ice, though, they’re a very happy couple and

By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — The great ones make it look so easy that we forget how hard it is to be exceptional. Secretariat running like a machine in the Belmont and Michael Phelps gobbling up gold medals in 2008; Tom Brady engineering seven Super Bowl victories and Simone Biles coming back for more

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (CNN) — She thought about watching “Miracle,” thinking the story of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team would be the exact sort of motivation she needed. But then Sarah Warren thought about it a little more. “Miracle,” she realized, had some low points. It was January 5 of

By Ben Church, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — When Ilia Malinin’s score was displayed on screen at the end of his free skate on Friday, no one could believe what they saw. Journalists looked at each other in stunned silence, while members of the crowd sat with their mouths open even wider than their eyes.

CNN By Dana O’Neil, Patrick Sung Cuadrado, Aleks Klosok, CNN (CNN) — A Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) arbitrator has denied Vladyslav Heraskevych’s appeal and the Ukrainian skeleton rider will not be reinstated to compete in the Olympics wearing what he has deemed his “memory helmet.’’ Heraskevych was kicked out of the Milan Cortina

By Dana O’Neil, Patrick Sung Cuadrado, Aleks Klosok, CNN (CNN) — A Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) arbitrator has denied Vladyslav Heraskevych’s appeal and the Ukrainian skeleton rider will not be reinstated to compete in the Olympics wearing what he has deemed his “memory helmet.’’ Heraskevych was kicked out of the Milan Cortina Games

By Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Competitions at the Winter Olympics are defined by extremes: extreme air, extreme speed and extreme temperatures. On sliding tracks, athletes in luge, bobsled and skeleton break highway speed limits. In the halfpipe and big air competitions, snowboarders hit huge jumps, completing dizzying numbers of spins while airborne. They

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been criticized for selling merchandise commemorating the 1936 Berlin games, which Adolf Hitler used to showcase his Nazi ideology. The website for the Olympics — currently in the spotlight due to the ongoing Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — features a men’s T-shirt marking

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (CNN) — The Ukrainian flag wrapped around her shoulders and its colors painted on her left cheek, Olha Scherhyna stood near the top of the Cortina Sliding Centre and pointed her phone at the big board announcing the start list for the men’s skeleton. Minutes earlier, the International

CNN By Dana O’Neil, CNN Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (CNN) — The Ukrainian flag wrapped around her shoulders and its colors painted on her left cheek, Olha Scherhyna stood near the top of the Cortina Sliding Centre and pointed her phone at the big board announcing the start list for the men’s skeleton. Minutes earlier, the