Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt means everything,\u201d Woods said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI said this yesterday, it means more than the medals, all the glory, the fame. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of the best things you can do in sport, wave the flag for your country, so super excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott was similarly taken aback by the honour.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute privilege,\u201d the four-time Olympian said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think for me personally, these Games have just grown into the best it could have and the icing on the cake now is being given this opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo represent such a successful winter team is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony Flag Bearers, Cooper Woods and Dani Scott. Pic: Supplied.Source: Supplied Source Known<\/p>\n
Earlier, Australia\u2019s mixed aerial team of Scott, Abbey Wilcox and Reilly Flanagan came fourth in the final.<\/p>\n
The Australians missed a medal place by 23.64 points with the United States taking gold, silver for Switzerland and China rounding out the podium places.<\/p>\n
Two Chinese skiers missed their landing, but they still earned enough air points to edge out of the Australians.<\/p>\n
Aerials gold medallist Lydia Lassila did get her hopes up on Channel 9\u2019s broadcaster, saying: \u201cI think we have a medal\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Indra Brown\u2019s women\u2019s freeski half-pipe final was postponed due to heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old qualified fourth for the final, ahead of defending champion and Chinese superstar Eileen Gu.<\/p>\n
The final will now take place on Sunday night AEDT.<\/p>\n
Bree Walker and Kiara Reddingius recorded Australia\u2019s best ever finish in the two-woman bobsleigh as they finished tenth, while Germany won gold and silver with the United States taking bronze.<\/p>\n
Australia’s Indra Brown smiles during the women’s freestyle skiing halfpipe qualifications at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Livigno, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (AP Photo\/Gregory Bull)Source: AP<\/p>\n
\ufeff\u2018I JUST WANT TO GO HOME\u2019: STAR\u2019S RESPONSE TO POSTPONEMENT<\/p>\n
Norwegian cross-country skier Johannes Klaebo won a ground-breaking sixth gold at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Saturday, while heavy snow forced China\u2019s freestyle skiing superstar Eileen Gu to wait for her elusive first title in Italy.<\/p>\n
Klaebo\u2019s victory in the men\u2019s 50km mass start event saw him clinch his 11th Winter Olympics gold medal, extending the record he set earlier in these Games.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old also became the first athlete to win all six cross-country skiing races in one Games.<\/p>\n
The only athlete in Winter or Summer Games history with more Olympic titles is American swimmer Michael Phelps, who won 23 golds.<\/p>\n
Gu had been aiming to win a gold of her own at these Games on Saturday, having taken two silvers so far in Italy.<\/p>\n
But heavy snowfall forced organisers to postpone the women\u2019s freeski half-pipe final.<\/p>\n
The event at Livigno Snow Park, high in the Italian Alps, has been pushed back to Sunday, the final day of competition, with better weather forecast.<\/p>\n
Gu arrived at the Games targeting a clean sweep of golds in her three events after winning two golds and a silver at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, where she was the host nation\u2019s darling.<\/p>\n
But she came up just short in the slopestyle and big air competitions in Livigno.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank God this is my last event,\u201d the 22-year-old US-born athlete said after qualifying earlier in the week. \u201cI\u2019m exhausted, I just want to go home to bed.\u201d A host of other gold medals were up for grabs on the final full day of action. Emily Harrop and Thibault Anselmet combined to win gold for France in the mixed relay event of ski mountaineering in Bormio.<\/p>\n
Ski mountaineering is making its Olympic debut at the Milan-Cortina Games and while the \u2018skimo\u2019 sprints offered a condensed version of the sport, the mixed relay proved to be a true lung-busting race.<\/p>\n
Scott wins Aerials Silver Medal | 00:53<\/p>\n
– Double French gold –<\/p>\n
Harrop and Anselmet clocked a winning time of 26min 57.44sec in the relay, consisting of ascents on skis and sections on foot with skis attached to the backpack.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a crazy feeling. The Olympics are the top of any athlete\u2019s dream,\u201d said Harrop.<\/p>\n
The Swiss duo of Marianne Fatton and Jon Kistler claimed silver, 11.86sec behind, with Spain\u2019s Ana Alonso Rodriguez and Oriol Cardona Coll rounding out the podium.<\/p>\n
An hour later, France won their sixth gold medal in biathlon of this Games when Oceane Michelon took the glory in the women\u2019s mass start event.<\/p>\n
Biathlon accounts for six of France\u2019s eight gold medals overall so far. In Livigno, favourite Simone Deromedis delighted Italian fans by winning the freestyle skiing skicross event to take the home nation\u2019s gold medal count at these Games to 10.<\/p>\n
In men\u2019s curling later, Britain will seek to upgrade the silver medal they won four years ago in Beijing when they take on Canada in the final.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such a good opportunity to put our sport on a platform that we don\u2019t often get,\u201d said Britain\u2019s Bruce Mouat.<\/p>\n
Canada coach Paul Webster called Britain the \u201cbest team in the world\u201d. There was drama at the bobsleigh track when the Austrian four-man team overturned at high speed.<\/p>\n
Pilot Jakob Mandlbauer was stretchered off after the bob hurtled down the track for a good 30 seconds on its side.<\/p>\n
Tournament favourites Canada and the USA will face off for ice hockey gold at Milan\u2019s Santagiulia Arena on Sunday, while Finland and Slovakia will battle for bronze on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Nathan MacKinnon scored Canada\u2019s winner in the final seconds to complete a thrilling comeback from two goals down in a 3-2 win against Finland on Friday, while the Americans breezed to a 6-2 victory over the Slovaks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s everything. It\u2019s the gold medal at an Olympic Games,\u201d said MacKinnon, with Canada eyeing their record 10th Olympic title but the first since Sochi 2014.<\/p>\n
The USA are targeting their first Olympic title since the 1980 \u201cMiracle on Ice\u201d. The ice hockey rosters at Milan-Cortina are packed with players from the National Hockey League (NHL), who are competing at the Olympic Games for the first time since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has named moguls skier Cooper Woods and aerial skier Danielle Scott as the nation\u2019s flag bearers for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[249958,2095,249965,1724,3686,249961,2065,249949,512,249568,249967,237786,9239,11301,2057,6214,236738,236724,249954,249953,11329,53230,16652,249957,43,35442,9264,28520,249955,589,2328,249959,249962,249960,142588,249950,249968,53221,249952,25054,44,2041,2067,3583,249956,236723,249970,249969,66143,3595,6221,249951,249964,41,39,42,40,249963,2614,13739,2062,249966,31080],"class_list":{"0":"post-496058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aerial-skier","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ana-alonso-rodriguez","11":"tag-asia","12":"tag-beijing","13":"tag-bruce-mouat","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-ceremony-flag","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-closing-ceremony","18":"tag-cross-country-skiing-races","19":"tag-danielle-scott","20":"tag-eastern-asia","21":"tag-eastern-europe","22":"tag-europe","23":"tag-finland","24":"tag-flag-bearers","25":"tag-freestyle-skiing","26":"tag-freestyle-skiing-skicross","27":"tag-freestyle-skiing-superstar","28":"tag-gold-medal","29":"tag-gold-medallist","30":"tag-gold-medals","31":"tag-half-pipe-final","32":"tag-headlines","33":"tag-heavy-snowfall","34":"tag-home-nation","35":"tag-host-nation","36":"tag-ice-hockey-rosters","37":"tag-ice-hockey","38":"tag-italy","39":"tag-jakob-mandlbauer","40":"tag-jon-kistler","41":"tag-lung-busting-race","42":"tag-lydia-lassila","43":"tag-marianne-fatton","44":"tag-mass-start-event","45":"tag-michael-phelps","46":"tag-moguls-skier","47":"tag-national-hockey-league","48":"tag-news","49":"tag-north-america","50":"tag-northern-america","51":"tag-northern-europe","52":"tag-paul-webster","53":"tag-reilly-flanagan","54":"tag-relay-event","55":"tag-skiing-skicross-event","56":"tag-slovakia","57":"tag-southern-europe","58":"tag-switzerland","59":"tag-teen-upstages-superstar","60":"tag-top-honour","61":"tag-top-news","62":"tag-top-stories","63":"tag-topnews","64":"tag-topstories","65":"tag-tournament-favourites","66":"tag-united-states-of-america","67":"tag-weather-forecast","68":"tag-western-europe","69":"tag-wins-aerials","70":"tag-winter-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}