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.

Cortina saw Marianne Fatton triumph at the expense of the unfortunate Emily Harrop, with the transitions proving decisive to the outcome of the medals

Updated Feb. 19 medal table: Norway extends its lead to 16 gold and 34 total as ski mountaineering debuts and Nordic combined adds another Norway gold. The post Winter Olympics Medal Count Today (Feb.

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Nikita Filippov, the ski mountaineer racer listed as an individual neutral athlete, was feeling the support. From family and his friends, who showed up in the stands for Thursday's race with a big picture of his face on a poster.

Marianne Fatton made history by winning gold in the first-ever Winter Olympic ski mountaineering sprint event. Can't view the above video? Click here. The newest sport on the Olympic program made its debut Thursday at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

As long as you didn’t care about getting soaked, and perhaps flash-frozen, watching these athletes go up the hill on skis lined with a traction-generating skin, navigate a few random obstacles and then ski back down,