Winter Olympics 2026: China’s Gu soars to gold, Germany dominate four-man bobsleigh – live
NEWS | 22 February 2026
From 2h ago 06.07 EST 🥇 Eileen Gu wins gold in the women's halfpipe! So after a fall on her first run, Gu shows nerves of steel to improve with each of her next two runs. Zoe Atkin led after the first runs but despite improving her score to 92.5 on her final effort she falls just short of Li Fanghui, who bagged silver. Here are the final standings: Eileen Gu (CH) 94.75 Li Fanghui (CH) 93 Zoe Atkin (GB) 92.50 China’s Li Fanghui and Eileen Gu and Britain’s Zoe Atkin pose after the women’s freestyle skiing half-pipe final Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/AP China’s Eileen Gu soars to ski halfpipe gold as Zoe Atkin claims GB’s fifth medal of Games Read more Share Updated at 07.38 EST 1m ago 07.58 EST Summary of the day If you’re just joining us, here is what has happened so far on the final day of the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games: Eileen Gu defended her Olympic ski half-pipe title to make it six medals in six events over her Winter Games career. The 22-year-old Gu is already the most decorated freeskier in the short history of the sport at the Olympics. She won the event on the strength of her second run, a clean, technically sound pass and got even better in her final run to finish with a score of 94.75. Her teammate, Li Fanghui, took silver and Zoe Atkin of Britain was third, upping GB’s medal tally to five. Sweden’s Ebba Andersson surged away from her rivals to secure a commanding win in the 50km classic cross-country ski race, winning the first gold medal in the event on its Olympic debut. It was redemption for Andersson, who suffered a series of falls in the relay that likely cost her team a gold medal. She also has three second-place finishes at Milano Cortina, one earned after an impressive comeback in the relay and individual silvers in the skiathlon and 10km freestyle event. Germany’s Johannes Lochner collected his second bobsleigh gold of these Games in the four-man event, completing a hugely dominant week for the sliding superpower. Compatriot and double-defending champion Francesco Friedrich took silver but Germany’s hopes of a first-ever clean sweep in the event were spoiled when Michael Vogt snatched bronze for Switzerland on the final run. Sweden beat Switzerland for women’s curling gold to conclude the sport’s competition at Milano Cortina. It was Sweden’s sixth Olympic gold and 13th medal overall in Olympic curling, trailing only Canada in both categories. After upsetting top-ranked Canada in the semi-finals Anna Hasselborg’s Sweden defeated Silvana Tirinzoni’s Switzerland 6-5. Canada beat the United States for bronze on Saturday. Sidney Crosby is out for Canada in the men’s Olympic hockey gold medal game against the United States after a right knee injury. Crosby skated in a closed practice on Saturday. The 38-year-old left Canada’s quarter-final against the Czech Republic and missed the semi-final against Finland. Connor McDavid wears the captain’s “C” again. He leads the tournament with 13 points in five games. Share 10m ago 07.49 EST 🥇 Sweden claim women's curling gold against Switzerland The final stone dislodges Switzerland’s red and there it is. Sweden win 6-5 to win their second Olympic gold eight years on. What a result for Anna Hasselborg and her team! Share 14m ago 07.46 EST Curling: Sweden are just hitting their shots perfectly. Switzerland have one last chance to disrupt the yellow stone in the middle … Share 24m ago 07.35 EST Curling: Huge end for the Swiss as they score two to level it all up against Sweden – 5-5 as we go to the 10th end. View image in fullscreen Sweden's Anna Hasselborg delivers a stone in the nail biting curling final. Photograph: François-Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images Share Updated at 07.48 EST 29m ago 07.30 EST Bobsleigh: The Great Britain pilot, Brad Hall, speaks to BBC Sport after a seventh-place finish in the four-man bobsleigh: double quotation mark It’s very difficult to put into words to be honest. It’s pretty devastating to finish where we did today but we weren’t in the place we wanted to be overnight and we said we were going to come out fighting and do the best we can – and that’s what we feel like we did. It didn’t work out the way we wanted it to but we have so much to be proud of over the past four years – world championships medals, European champions and World Cup medals as well so, it’s just sucks to end a four-year Olympic period with a result like this. It’s difficult to put into words right now. Share 36m ago 07.23 EST Curling: Sweden steal one in the women’s final after an error from Switzerland’s Alina Pätz with the hammer. The Swedes now lead 5-3 with two ends left to make up for it. Share 41m ago 07.18 EST Ice hockey: Some big breaking news for the men’s ice hockey final. Canada’s captain, Sidney Crosby is out of the gold-medal game against the United States. The two-time Olympic champion, will play no part due to an injury sustained in the quarter-final win over the Czech Republic after a heavy hit from the defenceman Radko Gudas. The 38-year-old has two goals and four assists in four games this tournament. Connor McDavid will continue to wear the ‘C’ in Crosby’s absence. You can follow our dedicated live blog for the final with Beau Dure below. Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey final: Canada v USA – live Read more Share Updated at 07.33 EST 48m ago 07.11 EST 🥇🥈 Germany win one-two in four-man bobsleigh Gold for Johannes Lochner and his team, as the Beijing 2022 gold and silver medallist pilots swap places in 2026! That is a fifth Olympic gold for Thorsten Margis, part of Lochner’s crew. He won two-man and four-man gold in 2018 and 2022 as part of Friedrich’s team. Francesco Friedrich (Germany) takes silver and it is bronze for Michael Vogt’s Switzerland sled! Great Britain’s team comprising pilot Brad Hall, Greg Cackett, Leon Greenwood and Taylor Lawrence finish seventh. View image in fullscreen It’s gold and silver for Germany! Photograph: Annegret Hilse/Reuters Share Updated at 07.15 EST 54m ago 07.06 EST Thanks Tom and hello all. Let’s see how those medals shake up then … Share 1h ago 07.02 EST Right, to see you through to the conclusion of this one is Yara El-Shaboury. I’ll be back in a bit. Share 1h ago 07.01 EST Ammour can’t go clean for the Germany third team and that guarantees a bronze for the Swiss! The third German team post a 3mins 38.68secs overall time. Share 1h ago 06.59 EST The fourth-place Swiss put down their quickest start and Vogt delivers in the pilot seat. They’ve put the pressure on Ammour’s German unit in the bronze medal position, with an overall time of 3mins 38.64secs. Share 1h ago 06.56 EST Big roar for Baumgartner’s crew go for Italy, but they’re losing time all the way down and can’t move up from fifth. Share 1h ago 06.52 EST Unfortunately Hall can’t go quicker, it’s not his cleanest run and the British four finish in 55.03 for a total time of 3mins 39.12secs. It looks like a seventh-place finish for Team GB. Share 1h ago 06.50 EST Follador’s team for Switzerland go down in 54.94 so their four-run total is 3mins 39.03secs. Brad Hall’s GB team were on the same time ahead of that Swiss run, can they go better? Share 1h ago 06.46 EST Now we’re turning our focus back to the bobsleigh. Here’s the top five ahead of the final runs: Germany (Lochner) - 2mins 42.86secs Germany (Friedrich) - 2mins 43.34secs (+0.48secs) Germany (Ammour) - 2mins 43.78secs (+0.92secs) Switzerland (Vogt) - 2mins 43.87secs (+1.01secs) Italy (Baumgartner) - 2mins 43.96secs (+1.10secs) Switzerland and Team GB are joint sixth on 2mins 44.09secs (+1.23secs off the lead) Share 1h ago 06.43 EST Quick update on the curling. We’re into the sixth end and the Swedes lead Switzerland 3-1. Share 1h ago 06.35 EST For a full look at the updated medal table, hop over to our live page here. Share 2h ago 06.29 EST Email from Chris Page: double quotation mark Gutted for Zoe, but very proud. I think the judges were unnecessarily harsh. But my mind is now turning to the upcoming Paralympics, especially the Wheelchair Curling. It requires even more skill and finesse than the non-disabled variety, as there’s no sweeping involved. Let me know your thoughts on the action via the link at the top of the page. Share 2h ago 06.28 EST Cross country is a mad sport, 49km of gruelling skiing and then a sprint uphill. Super human athletes. Right, here are the final places in the cross country: Ebba Andersson (SWE) Heidi Weng (NOR) Nadja Kälin (CHE) Share 2h ago 06.24 EST Here comes Diggins, but she can’t get past Fosnæs on the climb. Kälin still leads this mini-race and is pulling away. It’s bronze for Kälin! Share Updated at 07.37 EST 2h ago 06.22 EST Nadja Kälin of Switzerland has a little lead going into the last climb and Kristin Austgulen Fosnæs of Norway is just behind her. Jessie Diggins of USA is on their tale, she could go past on this incline. Share 2h ago 06.21 EST Norway’s Weng comes in to take silver, who will take bronze? This will comes down to a sprint. Share 2h ago 06.18 EST 🥇 Sweden's Ebba Andersson wins gold in the 50km cross country Andersson goes into Klaebo mode on the final climb and enters the stadium all alone. She’s been the silver lady so far in this Games, but now gets her golden moment. View image in fullscreen Ebba Andersson crosses the line to take gold in the 50km cross country. Photograph: Alex Pantling/Getty Images Share Updated at 06.22 EST 2h ago 06.16 EST Taking a brief switch over the cross country, Sweden’s Ebba Andersson has a huge lead with less than 5km to go. She well away for gold and Heidi Weng has a decent gap for second, but the shake up for bronze could be interesting with five athletes all in with a shout. Share 2h ago 06.05 EST It's bronze for Atkin! She put it all out there, the height was massive and she lands a switch 900 to finish but the judges only gave her 92.50, meaning she’s 0.50 short of silver. That’s Team GB’s fifth medal of the Games, adding to the three golds and one silver. View image in fullscreen It’s bronze for Zoe Atkin. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images Share Updated at 06.12 EST 2h ago 06.02 EST Li Fanghui is guaranteed a medal, will this see her move into gold? It’s clean, technical and greater difficulty than her second run. That’s a 93, meaning Zoe Atkin needs slightly more to move up from bronze. Share 2h ago 05.59 EST Indra Brown puts in her best run, she’s a long way off the medals at the moment, but will that change? She goes to 87, for fifth place. Share 2h ago 05.58 EST Eileen Gu shuns the 1080 but her run is better than the one that scored 94 but it only improves her scored by 0.75. The task for Zoe Atkin and Li Fanghui is not impossible but is a little bit harder. The BBC boys are surprised that doesn’t score higher. Share 2h ago 05.55 EST Zhang Kexin is yet to land a run, but she can put up big scores. Ooooo, that’s the first 1080 we’ve seen in this final and that was an impressive technical run. It wasn’t big on the height and the score of 83.25 reflects that. Share 2h ago 05.52 EST What can Amy Fraser do? She’s fourth currently and that’s a big run. There was a lot of switch tricks in there but not a lot of height. It’s good enough for 88 and that won’t win a medal for the Canadian. View image in fullscreen Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images Share Updated at 05.54 EST 2h ago 05.49 EST This is good, Svea Irving skipped the second run after a bang on the first run and I thought she was out, instead the American is going to give it a go. Unfortunately she calls it early after fighting the landing on her second trick. Share 2h ago 05.47 EST Rachael Karker is next, but she falls coming off her jump. The Canadian’s 79.50 puts her in fifth for now. Share
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