Winter Olympics 2026: Malinin and Glenn go for gold in figure skating team event – live

Let’s set the stage …

The team competition is pretty simple. Finish first in a particular program, and your team gets 10 points. Second place is 9 points. Third is 8. Halfway through, we cut down to the final five.

So the current scores, after five of eight stages are …

Malinin will skate again today in the men’s free skate. Kagiyama will not.

And that could be pivotal. Japan could make up four points in pairs to pull within one point with two events left.

Competition starts with pairs in about 25 minutes (1330 ET). The women start at 1445 ET, then the men at 1555.

Get comfortable. Get popcorn. Get tissues. Enjoy.

Beau will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s Bryan Graham on how an eventful women’s downhill competition played out:

There was always a version of this story that ended in a single, violent instant. Lindsey Vonn was 13th to push out of the start gate on Sunday in Cortina d’Ampezzo knowing exactly what she was racing with: a fully ruptured ACL in her left knee, a heavy brace wrapped around the joint, and the accumulated wear of a career spent flirting with speed and consequence.

She barely made it out of the opening phase of the run.

Not 13 seconds into her descent, under bright late-morning sunshine on the Olympia delle Tofane, the 41-year-old American appeared to clip her right pole on a gate. The contact was subtle, almost imperceptible at full speed, but catastrophic in effect. She lost her balance, lurched violently to the right, twisted awkwardly in the air and landed hard on her side before being pitched backward down the piste.

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