Follow along for live coverage from Day 9 of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, with nine more Winter Olympics gold medals in the offing. Mikaela Shiffrin was one of today’s big medal hopes for the U.S. but she missed out on the podium after her second run in the women’s Alpine skiing giant slalom,

According to La Stampa, an Italian newspaper, the 10,000 gratis prophylactics available to the athletes at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games have run out in record-breaking time -- i.e., three days. “The supplies ran out in just three days,” an anonymous athlete told the newspaper. “They promised us more will arrive, but who knows when.”

Elena Meyers Taylor, competing in her fifth Olympic Games, sits in second, just 0.05 seconds behind Germany's Laura Nolte. Kaysha Love, making her Olympic debut, is close behind in third, and Kaillie Humphries is in fourth.

Team USA figure skating sensation Ilia Malinin entered Friday as an overwhelming favorite to take home gold in the men’s free skate at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned.

Mikaela Shiffrin signed up for this. So did Ilia Malinin, Scotty James and all the rest. Nobody is forced to come to the Olympics. The athletes in Milan and Cortina dreamed about these two weeks long before the flames were lit in northern Italy.