Nordic combined is the only Olympic sport that doesn't allow women to compete, despite athletes' efforts to change that. They say their odds for 2030 hinge on people watching men's events this week.

Nordic combined — ski jumping and cross-country in one — remains the only Winter Olympic sport that does not include women, even though women compete on the World Cup circuit and at world championships. “It’s heartbreaking, it really is,” U.S. team skier Annika Malacinski told the Associated Press.

Alysa Liu won the first women's figure skating gold medal for the United States in 24 years at Winter Olympics in Milan on Thursday.

Liu won gold with a rousing routine to "MacArthur Park" by Donna Summer. Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai, both of Japan, won silver and bronze.

Veteran sports columnist Christine Brennan remembers when male colleagues used to laugh at her for insisting on covering women's sports back in the 1990s. “It was absolutely infuriating to me,” said Brennan,

He was unable to match the Olympic record time set by China's Ning Zhongyan. Elsewhere at the Milan Cortina Games on Thursday, the newest Olympic sport handed out its first medals and Norway extended its lead atop the medal chart.

Following skier Lindsey Vonn's broken leg at the Olympics, other athletes share their stories of being badly hurt with millions watching

Day 12 of the 2026 Winter Olympics expects to be a big one for Team USA with a quarterfinal showdown on the ice and multiple medal chances scattered across the mountains and oval.