Austrian snowboarder strips down shirtless, flexes chiseled muscles immediately after winning Olympic gold medal originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Benjamin Karl already had earned the world's attention with his gold medal-winning performance at the Winter Olympics on Sunday.

Francesca Lollobrigida set a new Olympic record of 3 minutes, 54.28 seconds, shaving more than two-and-a-half seconds off the mark set by Dutch legend Irene Schouten four years earlier in Beijing.

Norway's Anna Odine Stroem shocked favorite Nika Prevc to take gold in the individual normal hill competition on Saturday.

The American Breezy Johnson set the tone early. She was the sixth ski racer of the day to drop into the Olympia delle Tofane downhill course on Sunday, and after blazing from top to bottom in one minute and 36.10 seconds, set the fastest time of the day.

The second gold medal of the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games was awarded to Frida Karlsson of Sweden in the women's 10km+10km skiathlon.

The crowd fell silent after Vonn crashed and tumbled before the first timing marker in Cortina. Vonn broke her left leg and needed surgery, a local official said.

Seeing whether Lindsey Vonn can contend for a medal in the Olympic downhill at age 41 with a titanium replacement in her right knee was already going to be one of the highlights of the Milan Cortina O