Winter Olympics 2026 day 10: Bree Walker misses Milano Cortina Games medal, Eileen Gu finishes with silver

And that’s the place we’re leaving our protection of day 10 of the Milano Cortina Olympics.

Make positive to hitch us once more tonight as we sort out day 11.

Have a very good day forward!

Japan has gained the pairs skating gold for the primary time in Winter Olympics historical past.

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara — who had been fifth after the brief program — got here to the fore within the free skating part.

They scored 158.13 to complete with a complete of 231.24.

Silver medallists Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava (221.75) additionally loved a slice of historical past, giving Georgia its first podium end on the Winter Olympics.

Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin — who led the competitors after the brief program — claimed bronze with a rating of 219.09.

With solely 4 pairs to go, Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara lead the competitors in the course of the free skating program.

Miura and Kihara have a complete rating of 231.24.

The 2023 and 2025 world champions posted 158.13 within the free skating part.

Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin — who led after the brief program — are nonetheless to come back.

Elana Meyers Taylor has gained gold within the monobob by simply 0.04 seconds!

Meyers Taylor — at 41 years of age — claimed victory for the United States, edging out German favorite Laura Nolte.

Nolte was the final athlete to go down the ultimate run, having led the standings after three heats.

Meyers Taylor produced a time of 59.51 to crank up the stress on Nolte, who posted 59.70 in response.

The mixed occasions throughout the 4 runs noticed Meyers Taylor edge out Nolte 3:57.93 to three:57.97.

Fellow American and defending champion, Kaillie Humphries Armbruster, took bronze with a complete time of three:58.05.

Australia’s Bree Walker (3:59.49) completed in eighth place.

Italy’s Flora Tabanelli flies into the bronze medal place with a rating of 94.25.

But it is heartbreak for GB’s Kirsty Muir, who doesn’t enhance in her third run.

She will end in fourth.

That means Canada’s Megan Oldham cannot be caught and can win gold, with every skier’s two finest scores added collectively for a last whole.

Oldham does not enhance on her third run, however it does not matter.

The Canadian is mobbed by teammates and supporters, overjoyed by a well-deserved gold medal within the girls’s freeski huge air.

Eileen Gu, in the meantime, takes silver.

The defending champion and world famous person was up in opposition to it after a disappointing second run however delivered a formidable rating of 89 in her third.

These are the medal-winning scores:

1. Megan Oldham 180.75 (CAN)
2. Eileen Gu 179 (CHI)
3. Flora Tabanelli 178.25 (ITA)

For now, a minimum of.

Eileen Gu improves on her second run massively, scoring 89 in her third and taking her total whole to 179.

That takes her to the silver medal place.

Can she keep there?

Five skiers to come back.

Bree Walker is on the prime of the monitor …

59.69 for her last run, which ensures her a top-eight end.

Her whole time is 3:59.49, however we cannot know for a short while what her last place shall be.

Consecutive top-eight placings on the Olympics — the Aussie may be happy with this feat.

We’re solely minutes away from Bree Walker placing down her last run of the monobob competitors.

Walker was eighth after the third run — can she climb the standings?

The second run of the freeski huge air is full, and Canada’s Megan Oldham is properly and actually on prime.

The finest qualifier, Oldham notched an excellent 89 in her second run, taking her total rating to 180.75.

She leads GB’s Kirsty Muir (174.75) within the silver medal place and Italy’s Flora Tabanelli (174) behind her.

Eileen Gu (151.25) in eighth with some critical floor to make up.

One run to go.

Eileen Gu has notched a rating of 61.25 in her second run.

She seemed good by way of the air however botched the touchdown a contact, solely simply staying upright.

That effort brings her again to seventh, with a mixed rating of 151.25.

We’re midway by way of the free skating program within the pairs last, with Emily Chan and Spencer Howe of the US holding the provisional lead.

After eight pairs, Chan and Howe prime the standings with a complete rating of 200.31.

They scored 130.25 within the free skating part.

Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin led after the brief program and would be the last pair on the ice.

Austria’s Lara Wolf, the most effective from the opening run of the ladies’s free ski huge air, has simply had a disappointing second run.

Attempting a double 12 blunt seize, Wolf falls on impression and is given a rating of 21.

Well, contemplating the completely horrid circumstances in Livigno, that was a extremely spectacular opening run from the skiers contesting the large air last.

The finest qualifier, Canadian Megan Oldham, concludes the opening set and flies into second place with a rating of 91.75.

That means she’s one spot forward of American-born Chinese famous person Eileen Gu, who notched an excellent 90.

Austria’s Lara Wolf leads the pack on 93.75.

Two extra runs to go.

Defending champion and freeski famous person Eileen Gu has kicked off her last with a really spectacular run of 90.00.

That is nice sufficient to maneuver her into second place with Canada’s Megan Oldham nonetheless to come back.

Gu is clearly pleased with the rating, racing away to rejoice with a sizeable contingent of Chinese followers watching on.

We’re near a begin within the last run of the monobob competitors, with Australia’s Bree Walker in eighth place.

Walker will begin thirteenth out of the 20 athletes who made the minimize for the fourth warmth.

Her whole time of two:59.80 is 1.53 behind German chief Laura Nolte and 1.29 adrift of American Kaillie Humphries Armbruster, who’s third after three runs.

Walker was fifth on the Beijing Winter Olympics 4 years in the past.

The last run commences at 7:06am AEDT.

After a delay of an hour of an hour and 45 minutes, the hotly anticipated girls’s freeski huge air last is underway.

It’s nonetheless snowing barely in Livigno, however the blizzard has handed.

Unfortunately, we have had two Swiss athletes pull out after injuring themselves of their preparations for the ultimate – Anouk Andraska and third finest in qualifying, Mathilde Gremaud.

We’ve seen 4 runs to this point – with Austria’s Lara Wolf main the way in which with a elegant rating of 93.50.

Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are the provisional leaders because the pairs competitors continues with the free skating program.

Following a difficult build-up to the Games, Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps — the 2024 world champions — scored 126.57 within the free skating part for a mixed whole of 192.61.

They had been 14th after the brief program.

There are nonetheless 13 pairs to come back, so the standings are set to vary.

We’ve simply obtained phrase from Italy.

The girls’s freeski huge air last will start at 8:45pm native time, or 6:45pm AEDT.

That’s in about quarter-hour time.

We will carry you all of the motion from Livigno.

The snowstorm has eased up in Livigno and the clean-up is underway.

Organisers have stated we should not anticipate any competitors till 9pm native time (7am AEDT).

If every part goes to plan, meaning the ultimate of the ladies’s freeski huge air would have already been pushed again an hour and a half.

It’s shaping as a late evening for the medal hopefuls in Livigno.

For Australian viewers, nonetheless, this last – that includes American-born Chinese famous person Eileen Gu – has properly and actually been flung right into a “watchable” time slot.