Team USA wasn’t expected to get many medals Thursday. But the events it was in contention for were important ones. The U.S. came into Thursday still third in overall medals, still trailing Norway and Italy.

Norway, Italy, the United States and Germany all added to their overall medal hauls at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Tuesday.

The race for Olympic medal superiority is heating up with just a few days of competition left in Milan Cortina. While Norway has a sizeable cushion from the rest of the pack, there are four countries bunched together that are competing for second on the leaderboard — with the U.