Spain won a first Winter Olympics gold since 1972 when twice reigning world champion Oriol Cardona Coll triumphed in the men's ski mountaineering sprint as the sport made its Games debut on Thursday.

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — They skied uphill through a diamond-shaped pattern and climbed a flight of on-slope stairs in their ski boots. Far from done, they endured more lung-searing climbing, with skis back on,

Spain's Oriol Cardona Coll and Switzerland's Marianne Fatton bagged the first two Olympic golds on offer in ski mountaineering in Bormio on Thursday as the event made its debut at the Winter Games. Filippov finished 1.

Oriol Cardona Coll won Spain's first Winter Olympics gold medal for 54 years as he claimed victory in the men's sprint in the inaugural ski mountaineering event on Thursday.

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — The steepest hill ski mountaineering athlete Ana Alonso Rodriguez had to climb on her way to an Olympic bronze medal involved no course at all. No snow or competitors, either. Just trusting in herself,

Recapping what happened on Day 14 of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, with the U.S. men's hockey team defeating Slovakia to set up a gold-medal showdown with Canada.

The sport of ski mountaineering made its long-awaited Olympics debut Thursday and crowned its first champion at the Milano Cortina Winter Games in Marianne Fatton of Switzerland.