Jeannette native Jasmine Jones returns home with Olympic bronze
Jasmine Jones, the Jeannette native who competed in this year’s Winter Olympics in Italy, remembers the moment a childhood dream 15 years in the making came true. Jones, 29, was on her first Olympic journey last month with the U.S. women’s bobsled team. German athletes were dominating the first three...
USA Olympic star Jack Hughes: ‘Every time I come back to Pittsburgh, I’ll really appreciate what they did for me’Video
The last guy with a similar smile to get an ovation that big in Pittsburgh might have been Jack Lambert after Super Bowl XIV. Some of Jack Hughes’ teeth are still chipped from a stick to the mouth he endured during Team USA’s gold medal win over Canada last weekend....
Jack Hughes’ OT goal for Team USA vs Canada in Olympic final averages 26M live viewers on NBC, Peacock
Jack Hughes’ overtime goal, which gave the United States its first Olympic gold medal in men’s hockey since 1980, drew an average audience of 26 million viewers on NBC and Peacock in the U.S., according to Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel ratings and Adobe Analytics digital data. Team USA’s 2-1...
Mark Madden: Jack Hughes should jump from golden goal to NHL’s golden goose
The face of hockey is 38 years old. No offense to Sidney Crosby, but it’s time for a new face. That new face has a broken tooth. That face is Jack Hughes, 24, who scored the golden goal for the U.S. at the Olympics and plays in the New York...
Hempfield’s Jasmine Jones credits Air Force, bobsled pilot for helping her reach Olympic dreams
Lake Placid, N.Y., is where Jasmine Jones calls home these days since she trains there with the Air Force World Class Athlete program. On Saturday night in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, Jones became an Olympic bronze medalist alongside her friend and teammate, Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, in the two-woman bobsled competition. The...
U.S. women’s hockey team declines invitation from Trump to attend State of Union
WASHINGTON — The U.S. women’s hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday. “We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal—winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of...
North Hills student catches puck at U.S. women’s hockey gold medal game
The luckiest Olympians get something to take home with them. That’s apparently also true of Olympic spectators, as one North Hills High School sophomore found out. Joseph “Trip” Cillo was visiting Italy with his family for the 2026 Milano Cortina games and was in the arena as the U.S. women’s...
Mark Madden: Pittsburgh-powered penalty kill helps Team USA prove critics wrong
Plenty of hockey “experts” — including me — thought U.S. GM Bill Guerin and his staff erred in picking his Olympic men’s hockey team. The exclusion of high-octane weapons like Jason Robertson, Cole Caufield and Lane Hutson was bemoaned. Less-talented role players were preferred. But the proof of the pudding...
Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her from having her left leg amputated following Olympic crash
VAIL, Colo. — American skier Lindsey Vonn says she nearly lost her left leg following a frightening crash in the women’s downhill at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Vonn revealed in an Instagram post on Monday that her injuries went far beyond the complex tibia fracture in the leg she initially...
NHL’s return to the Olympics lives up to the hype, sets stage for 2028 World Cup of Hockey
MILAN — The long wait for the best hockey players in the world taking the ice in an international tournament lived up to the hype. Four of the seven games in the knockout round at the Milan Cortina Olympics went to overtime, including the U.S beating Canada in a fast-paced,...
Overtime hockey heartbreak closes Milan Cortina Olympics for Canada
MILAN — Canada’s Olympic run in Italy ended with a 2-1 overtime loss to the United States in the men’s hockey final Sunday. Jack Hughes scored 1:41 into overtime, left alone in the slot during 3-on-3 play as Canada scrambled after surrendering an odd-man break seconds earlier. Matt Boldy also...
Hellebuyck, Hughes add names to U.S. Olympic hockey legends
MILAN — Go ahead and put the names Jack Hughes and Connor Hellebuyck in the same revered place that Mike Eruzione and Jim Craig have occupied since their “Miracle On Ice ” triumph in 1980. It had been 46 years since the United States won the men’s hockey gold medal...
Roundup: Eileen Gu’s halfpipe victory among highlights of final day of Olympics
MILAN — Eileen Gu is now 6-for-6 in Olympic medal events after another halfpipe victory. The 22-year-old Gu, American-born but competing for her mother’s homeland of China, is already the most decorated freeskier in the short history of the sport at the Olympics. She also captured two silver medals at...
Twin Milan and Cortina Olympic cauldrons are extinguished, signaling the end of Winter Games
VERONA, Italy — The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games ever. In declaring the 2026...
What did the Olympics mean for the Penguins and hockey in the United States?
Things were fairly ordinary on a dreary, cloudy Sunday at UMPC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. As members of the Pittsburgh Penguins gathered to refine their skills for practice, fans watched from the stands. And many of them wore jerseys of players who have captivated them for the past two-plus...
Tim Benz: Team USA didn’t need a miracle this time. It just needed to seize the momentVideo
The Team USA Olympic ice hockey win over Canada wasn’t a miracle. This time, the American skaters didn’t need one. They just needed the last goal. Forty-six years ago, in Lake Placid, a miracle was necessary. When the roster was composed of American college kids playing against the Soviet Red...
Photos from the closing ceremony of Milan Cortina Olympics
MILAN — This photo gallery features highlights from the closing ceremony of the Milan Cortina Olympics....
This 89-year-old is ‘King of the Volunteers’ at the Olympics and will star in the closing ceremony
VERONA, Italy — When Mario Gargiulo traveled to the 1956 Cortina Winter Games, his first trip to northern Italy from his hometown of Naples, the 20-year-old never imagined he’d return to the Olympics. But he has, 70 years later, this time as the so-called “King of the Volunteers.” He was...
Eileen Gu finds gold on the halfpipe to make it 6 medals in 6 Olympic events over her career
LIVIGNO, Italy — Eileen Gu snatched a gold ribbon off a gift basket on her way to the mountain Sunday and stuck it in her pocket just in case. Just in case? If her 16-day odyssey at the Milan Cortina Games taught the world anything, it’s that there are no...
Injured captain Sidney Crosby out for Canada against the U.S. in the Olympic gold medal game
MILAN — Sidney Crosby will not play for Canada in the men’s gold medal hockey game against the U.S. at the Winter Olympics on Sunday, four days after suffering an apparent right knee injury. Crosby’s status was revealed just over an hour before puck drop when the lineups came out....
America vs. Canada for Olympic hockey gold is titanic showdown of powerhouses
MILAN — Dylan Larkin has been thinking about the U.S. facing Canada for gold at the Olympics for a year. All the dreams he had as a kid crystallized after he and his teammates lost to their rival in the final of the 4 Nations Face-Off. “I’ve thought about it...
Hempfield’s Jasmine Jones earns Olympic bronze medal in 2-woman bobsled
Their arms raised and an American flag draped across their backs, Jasmine Jones and Kaillie Armbruster Humphries flashed smiles, held hands and leaned against one another on a cold night on an Italian mountain range. The bobsled duo knew they had earned a spot on the Olympic podium. “When we...
Injured Canada captain Sidney Crosby’s status uncertain for the Olympic gold medal game
MILAN — Canada has not decided whether injured captain Sidney Crosby will play in the gold medal game at the Olympics against the U.S. on Sunday, coach Jon Cooper said Saturday. Crosby skated in practice, which was closed to reporters to maintain a shroud of secrecy around the status of...
U.S. captures a record 11th gold medal at the Winter Olympics
LIVIGNO, Italy — The U.S. Olympic team won its record-breaking 11th gold medal of the Winter Games on Saturday when the trio of Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis took the title in mixed aerials. The 11th gold breaks a record set at the last Olympics on U.S. soil...
‘Hotdog’ in the halfpipe! American Alex Ferreira finally wins his Olympic gold
LIVIGNO, Italy — The next time you see a senior citizen barreling down the mountain, maybe doing a double-cork while he’s at it, don’t think twice. That might just be your neighborhood’s friendly new Olympic champion. Alex Ferreira, the freeskier who occasionally dons prosthetics to look 80 and calls his...
