{"id":482454,"date":"2026-02-21T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:07:07","slug":"usa-chases-gold-ilia-malinins-gala-run-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482454\/","title":{"rendered":"USA chases gold; Ilia Malinin\u2019s gala run \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowFor the second consecutive Olympics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/u-s-wins-gold-in-mixed-team-aerials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Team USA wins gold in mixed aerials<\/a>, with Chris Lillis, Connor Curran and Kaila Kuhn soaring to the top of the podium.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/curling-bad-publicity-winter-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Canada<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/curling-athletes-tired-winter-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">United States<\/a> in the bronze medal match in women&#8217;s curling, denying the American women their first-ever medal in the event. Speed skater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/jordan-stolz-wins-first-ever-gold-medal-speed-skating-mens-1000m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jordan Stolz<\/a> missed out on his chance to become the first man since 1994 to collect three gold medals in long track speed skating, finishing fourth in the mass start event. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/winter-olympians-most-medals-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Norway\u2019s\u00a0Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo<\/a>\u00a0completed his historic gold medal sweep of the men\u2019s cross-country skiing events this morning by winning his sixth race and setting the record for the most golds by one athlete in a single\u00a0Winter Olympics.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/bobsled-2026-milan-cortina-winter-olympic-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bobsleigh 2-woman heats<\/a> wrap up, starting at 1 p.m. ET, with three American duos still in medal contention, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/elana-meyers-taylor-gold-monobob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Elana Meyers Taylor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/kaillie-humphries-olympian-bobsled-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kaillie Humphries<\/a>.A week after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/quad-god-ilia-malinin-finish-figure-skating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">disappointing free skate<\/a>, Ilia Malinin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/ilia-malinin-today-interview-olympics-pressure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">returns to the ice<\/a> at 2 p.m. ET for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/ilia-malinin-breaks-silence-olympic-heartbreak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">exhibition gala<\/a> along with fellow U.S. stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/american-alysa-liu-earns-gold-medal-womens-figure-skating-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Alysa Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/madonna-amber-glenn-video-message-figure-skating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Amber Glenn<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along for live updates:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowFor the second consecutive Olympics, Team USA wins gold in mixed aerials, with Chris Lillis, Connor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482455,"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":{"0":"post-482454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-united-states-of-america","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482454","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=482454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}