Meet the Quad God’s Top Rival at the Winter Olympics: Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama

Can anyone beat the "Quad God" Ilia Malinin at the Winter Olympics? Japan's Yuma Kagiyama will take his best shot on Tuesday.

Japan extends its snowboard power to big air

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Japan extends its snowboard power to big air with a 1-2 Olympic finish
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — That ever-growing bench of Japanese snowboarders runs deep. Jumps very high, too. The country that has steadily been asserting mastery over the halfpipe took that show to the Winter Olympics big air contest Saturday night,

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Kokomo Murase extends Japan's Olympic snowboarding success, winning women's big air
Japan extends men's snowboarding big air dominance at Olympics

Kokomo Murase Wins First Olympic Gold In Thrilling Big Air Final

Beijing 2022 women’s snowboard big air bronze medalist Kokomo Murase claimed her first Olympic gold medal in a big air battle that came down to the very last run.

Japan, Olympic and Team USA

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Olympic Figure Skating Team Event Results: U.S. Narrowly Edges Japan For Gold
The Olympic Team Event came down to the final skater on Sunday. In front of a packed house inside the Milano Ice Skating arena, the United States narrowly defeated Japan for its second consecutive team gold.

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The U.S. wins Olympic gold in the figure skating team event, holding off Japan
Olympics figure skating live updates: Ilia Malinin, US aim for team event gold

Italy beats Japan to reach Olympic women's hockey quarterfinals for the first time

MILAN (AP) — Host nation Italy secured a place in the quarterfinals of the Olympic women's hockey tournament for the first time by beating Japan 3-2 on Monday. Italy improved to 2-1, with one game left against Germany,

Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: Latest from Day 3 of Games with U.S. reaching gold medal game in curling mixed doubles

Day 3 of the 2026 Winter Olympics features a packed slate, with five gold medals due to be handed out. One of those golds went to Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud in the women's freeski slopestyle to defend her title.

Winter Olympics: Japan’s Kagiyama tops Malinin in men’s short program

Malinin, the two-time World champion and overwhelming favorite to retain for the U.S. the Olympic men’s gold medal Nathan Chen won four years ago in Beijing, finished second to Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama.

2026 Winter Olympics updates: Team USA dominates women's hockey, holds lead in figure skating after Day 1

Team USA made an immediate impact on the first full day of competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, headlined by another one-sided performance from the women's hockey team and a five-point lead in figure skating's team event that sets up a pivotal Sunday.

Winter Olympics 2026 Day 2 recap: Lindsey Vonn's devastating injury crash; USA secures dramatic team figure skating gold over Japan

Team USA secured its second medal of the Games with a gold in the team figure skating in Sunday’s final event. USA came out of Saturday’s Day 1 with a five-point lead, but entered Sunday’s men’s free skate — the final portion of the contest — tied with Japan in first place.