4h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 8:15amAussies in action on day four
Here are the Australians competing at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics tonight and into Wednesday morning (AEDT):
COMING UP
Skeleton: Nick Timmings has training runs from 11:30pmMoguls: Jakara Anthony, Charlotte Wilson and Emma Bosco in women’s qualifying from 12:15am
COMPLETED
Moguls: Matt Graham (10th), Cooper Woods (15th), Jackson Harvey (23rd) and George Murphy (26th) in men’s moguls qualifyingCross-country skiing: Ellen Søhol Lie (50th) and Maddie Hooker (67th) in women’s sprint classic qualification; Hugo Hinckfuss (42nd) and Lars Young Vik (51st) in men’s sprint classic qualification
Short track speed skating: Brendan Corey fourth in men’s 1,000m heat
22m agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 11:54am
Games organisers respond to broken medals
Games organisers claim they are devoting “maximum attention” to solving the problem of Olympic medals breaking at the Milano Cortina Games.
At least four athletes had their awards fall apart in the opening three days of competition.
Earlier on day four, Games operations communication director, Luca Casassa, had this to say:
A limited number of medals have had a few problems. But as you know, the organising committee has immediately gone to the point, working in close cooperation with the Italian mint, which is responsible for the production of the medals.
A solution has been identified and a target-oriented intervention has been implemented.
The athletes who have medals with problems are invited to give them back through the appropriate channels so that they can be immediately repaired and given back.
Milano-Cortina 2026 is confirming their commitment to guarantee that the medals, the symbol of the biggest achievement of each athlete, meet the highest quality standards.
36m agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 11:40am
Olympic champ Johnson dominates for US
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Downhill champion Breezy Johnson may be heading for a golden ‘double double’ at the Winter Olympics.
Johnon dominated the opening leg of the women’s alpine skiing team combined for the US first team, setting up partner Mikaela Shiffrin for the decisive slalom run.
Johnson and Shiffrin — the most successful World Cup skier of all time with a record 108 wins — are the world champions in the event.
Johnson holds the world and Olympic downhill titles simultaneously after winning Sunday’s opening speed race.
Shiffrin — winner of seven of eight World Cup slaloms this season with the crystal globe in the discipline already secured — now has one run on the sparkling Olimpia delle Tofane piste between her and a first Olympic medal since Pyeongchang 2018.
Johnson — who has never won a World Cup race — started 14th and set a time of 1 minute and 36.59 seconds in gloriously sunny conditions, 0.06 faster than Ariane Rädler for Austria’s second team.
Laura Pirovano put Italy2 in third place with a run 0.27 off the pace and became the host nation’s main hope of a medal after Sofia Goggia, downhill bronze medallist, crashed out.
Goggia’s inside ski slid across and she lost her balance, ending the hopes of teammate Lara Della Mea.
She was able to ski down to the finish and waved to the crowd.
The slalom run us due to start at midnight AEDT.
The women’s team combined event is being held for the first time at an Olympics.
— AP
42m agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 11:34am’A lot of room to improve’: Matt Graham on his run
Matt Graham spoke to media in the mix zone a short time ago.
“Not my best,” he said of his run.
“I had a really good training this morning, just got a little bit out of time and out of rhythm in the middle section and then a little bit hung up on the last turn into the bottom air.
“So, look, not my finest, but a lot of room to improve.”
Graham said it was his own mistakes that cost him.
“The course was good. I mean, it was good all morning,” he said.
“The moguls were a little catchy, so you really just had to be in time and in sync with the bumps, but unfortunately I just made a few mistakes.”
Graham was, at that stage, not sure whether he would have qualified automatically for the first final or not.
But he noted that it didn’t really matter to him either way,
“I mean, it is what it is,” he said.
“It doesn’t matter really, either way you can make it work.”
1h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 11:11amGraham through to moguls final
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He sat on the bubble towards the end but Australian co flag-bearer Matt Graham has earned automatic qualification for the men’s moguls final.
Graham snared the 10th and final spot after scoring 75.77.
It wasn’t make or break for the 2018 Olympic silver medallist, as he would have still gone through to Qualification 2 had he missed a top-10 berth.
His Aussie teammates Cooper Woods (15th), Jackson Harvey (23rd) and George Murphy (26th) will contest Qualification 2.
Japan’s reigning world champion Ikuma Horishima topped Qualification 1 with a brilliant score of 85.42.
Qualification 2 will be held at 8pm on Thursday, before Final 1 (10:15pm) and Final 2 (10:55pm) take place.
1h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 11:01am
Woods to go through second qualifying stage
Australia’s Cooper Woods has missed automatic qualification for the men’s moguls final.
Woods scored 73.67 to be 13th from 24 athletes, with six still to come in the opening run.
He can still make the final but will need to advance from Qualification 2.
Matt Graham (75.77)— the 2018 Olympic silver medallist — is the leading Australian in provisional ninth place.
The top 10 in the first qualification phase move through to Final 1.
1h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 10:51am
Aussie Harvey hits moguls course
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Australia’s Jackson Harvey scored 69.26 in his first run of the men’s moguls competition.
On the provisional standings after 19 athletes, Harvey was in 15th place, with Aussie teammate Matt Graham seventh and George Murphy in 17th position.
1h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 10:44amGraham makes opening run
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Australian four-time Olympian Matt Graham has scored 75.77 in the opening qualifying run in the men’s moguls.
Graham was in provisional sixth place after his run, having been the 15th of 30 to go down the course.
George Murphy (67.19) was in 15th place midway through the first run.
Fellow Aussies Jackson Harvey and Cooper Woods are still to come.
The top 10 athletes (including all tied for the 10th place) qualify for Final 1.
The remaining athletes progress to the Qualification 2 stage.
1h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 10:31am
Light causing issues at moguls
ABC Sport’s Simon Smale is watching on at the men’s moguls and has mentioned Australian George Murphy spoke about the light following his run.
Murphy said the light got a bit flat and that’s what caused his mistake at the top of the course.
1h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 10:26am
Go easy on the knees
Never watched this Mogul event before. Does it come with a spare pair of knees and hips ? Gee !!!
– Phillip
I think I’ve done an ACL just watching!
1h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 10:25am
Challenging conditions in moguls qualifying
The clouds are coming in a bit here in Livigno, which will impact the light and ability for the skiers to spot their lines.
We had a light dusting of snow this morning but that has not affected the run. It’s not too hard, not too soft. It’s a goldilocks course.
There’s a lot of Aussies here making a hell of a lot of noise. A superb atmosphere for qualifying.
1h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 10:22am
Aussie Murphy puts down a score
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Olympic debutant George Murphy has registered a score of 67.19, as the opening men’s moguls qualification round gets off to a start.
Murphy’s Australian teammates Matt Graham, Jackson Harvey and Cooper Woods are still to come.
The top 10 athletes (including all tied for the 10th place) qualify for Final 1.
The remaining athletes advance to the Qualification 2 stage.
2h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 10:15amCorey fourth in short track speed skating heat
Australia’s Brendan Corey has missed a top-three finish in his heat of the men’s 1,000 metres on the short track speed skating program.
Corey was third at the bell in the nine-lap event, but finished fourth in a time of 1:26.052.
Italian Pietro Sighel won the heat in 1:25.740.
The two best athletes in each heat and the four fastest third- placed athletes qualify for the quarterfinals.
2h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 10:07amItalian bronze medallist crashes
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The women’s alpine team combined event is underway and there has already be a a shock in the downhill section.
Italian Sofia Goggia — who won bronze in the women’s individual downhill on Sunday — recorded a DNF after sliding off the course.
Goggia and her fellow skiers are contending with poor light, however, so conditions are tricky for those contesting the downhill in the combined event.
Individual downhill gold medallist Breezy Johnson gave the USA 1 team the provisional lead after posting 1:36.59.
Johnson forms a star duo for the US alongside Mikaela Shiffrin.
Shiffrin has won two Olympic gold medals, in the slalom (2014) and giant slalom (2018).
She will contest the slalom section in the team combined event.
2h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 9:50am
Not long to go
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Grab a snack and your favourite beverage, and make yourself comfortable as we’re not far away from making a start in the men’s moguls qualification.
The opening round kicks off at 9:15pm AEDT, with four Aussies in action.
Leading the charge is 2018 silver medallist Matt Graham, who will be joined by compatriots George Murphy, Jackson Harvey and Cooper Woods.
Early tomorrow morning AEDT, reigning Olympic champion Jakara Anthony and Australian teammates Charlotte Wilson and Emma Bosco take part in the women’s qualification phase.
2h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 9:30am
Final placings in sprint classic qualifying
Hugo Hinckfuss and Lars Young Vik have learned their official placings in the qualifying stage of the men’s cross-country sprint classic.
Hinckfuss (3:23.41) was 42nd and Young Vik (3:26.13) was 51st, with the top 30 progressing to the quarterfinals.
Norwegian Johannes Høsflot Klæbo was top of the pops, recording the fastest time of 3:07.37.
2h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 9:17amAussies out of quarterfinal contention
Australians Hugo Hinckfuss and Lars Young Vik have missed advancing to the quarterfinals of the men’s cross-country sprint classic.
Hinckfuss was the fastest of the duo, managing a time of 3:23.41, while Lars Young clocked 3:26.13.
3h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 9:02am
Men’s sprint classic underway
It’s now time for the men’s cross-country sprint classic qualification stage.
Two Aussies are competing — Lars Young Vik and Hugo Hinckfuss — among 95 entrants.
We’ll let you know how they do as they chase quarterfinal berths.
3h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 8:47amLie, Hooker miss qualification
The qualification stage of the women’s cross-country sprint classic has wrapped up, with the top 30 moving through to the quarterfinals.
Australians Ellen Søhol Lie (4:01.65) and Maddie Hooker (4:13.09) finished in 50th and 67th place respectively.
Sweden filled the top three spots on the qualifying standings, with Linn Svahn the fastest with a time of 3:36.21.
3h agoTue 10 Feb 2026 at 8:37am
Aussies cross finish line
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Ellen Søhol Lie and Maddie Hooker have stopped the clock in the qualification phase of the women’s cross-country sprint classic.
Lie posted a time of 4:01.65, with Hooker recording 4:13.09.
There are still athletes yet to start, so we’ll update their final positions on the standings when the qualification stage concludes.