{"id":468166,"date":"2026-02-14T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:07:18","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-live-updates-the-latest-from-day-8-of-the-games-including-curling-and-alpine-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468166\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: The latest from Day 8 of the Games including curling and alpine skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s Lucas Pinheiro was the first skier down the Stelvio here in the Men\u2019s Giant Slalom, and he took full advantage of a clean track. His 1:13:92 was the fastest of the 81 skiers in Run 1, but the best in the world, Switzerland\u2019s Marco Odermatt, went off fifth and was a hair behind him at 1:14:87.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the opening runs, the times kept climbing. Switzerland\u2019s Loic Meillard was third, and the top 10 skiers were all among the first 20 down the hill.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Odermatt is 0-for-3 when it comes to gold medals in these Olympics, outshined by his fellow Swede Franjo von Allmen. But the giant slalom might be Odermatt\u2019s best event, a test of both speed and tehicnical skills.<\/p>\n<p>The skiers are off for Run 2 at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Lucas Pinheiro was the first skier down the Stelvio here in the Men\u2019s Giant Slalom, and he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-468166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468166","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=468166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}