{"id":455041,"date":"2026-02-07T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455041\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:01:09","slug":"first-medals-up-for-grabs-at-2026-winter-olympics-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455041\/","title":{"rendered":"First medals up for grabs at 2026 Winter Olympics \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowThe first gold medals of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/2026-milan-cortina-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2026 Milan Cortina Olympics<\/a> were awarded today to Swiss racer Franjo von Allmen in men&#8217;s alpine skiing, Sweden&#8217;s\u00a0Frida Karlsson women&#8217;s cross-country skiathlon, Italy&#8217;s Francesca Lollobrigida\u00a0in women&#8217;s speed skating, Norway&#8217;s Anna Odine Stroem in women&#8217;s ski jumping and Japan&#8217;s Kira Kimura in men&#8217;s snowboarding.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/team-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Team USA<\/a> nearly captured its first medal of the Games, as snowboarder Oliver Martin finished fourth in the big air event.The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/how-to-watch-usa-womens-hockey-tv-stream-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">U.S. women&#8217;s hockey team<\/a> improved to 2-0 with a dominant 5-0 victory over Finland. Five different players scored for the Americans, highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/hockey-star-hilary-knight-surprised-by-coach-who-taught-her-how-to-skate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">captain Hilary Knight<\/a> tying the all-time U.S. women&#8217;s record for Olympic goals.The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/figure-skating-how-to-watch-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">figure skating team event<\/a> continues with the men&#8217;s short program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/ilia-malinin-figure-skating-how-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">where Ilia Malinin will make his Olympic debut<\/a>, followed by the free dance. Team USA entered the day sitting first in the event.The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/curling-at-the-2026-milan-cortina-winter-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">mixed doubles curling<\/a> duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/video\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/cory-thiesse-kory-dropkin-chasing-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cory Thiesse\u00a0and\u00a0Korey Dropkin<\/a>\u00a0lost to Great Britain in the battle of the undefeated teams, dropping to 4-1 ahead of their next match against South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Follow live updates below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowThe first gold medals of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics were awarded today to Swiss racer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[212317,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-455041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}