{"id":456650,"date":"2026-02-08T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456650\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:23:10","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-live-updates-usa-wins-downhill-gold-but-lindsey-vonn-airlifted-after-crash-day-2-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456650\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: USA wins downhill gold but Lindsey Vonn airlifted after crash, Day 2 latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Milano Speed Skating Stadium, where the men\u2019s 500m gold medal event will kick off in just under 20 minutes. The United States\u2019 only chance to medal is Casey Dawson, who will skate in the 8th of 10 pairs.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Kleintje Pils, a 15-person Dutch band, is playing a version of \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d better than all the ones I\u2019ve heard at Fenway Park for Red Sox games. <\/p>\n<p>This is tradition. The group, whose name translates to \u201cSmall Beer,\u201d has become a regular fixture on the Winter Olympic stage since Nagano in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>As for this photo, it is from the 2010 Vancouver Games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greetings from Milano Speed Skating Stadium, where the men\u2019s 500m gold medal event will kick off in just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-456650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456650","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=456650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}