After three days of dramatic and often surprising competition, the United States claimed the Olympic gold medal in the figure skating team competition on Sunday night.
It wasn't easy.
After carrying a five-point lead into the final day of the event, the Americans found themselves locked in a tie with Japan entering the men's free skate, the last segment of the competition.
It would all come down to Ilia Malinin, the two-time reigning world champion in his debut Olympics. The 21-year-old had struggled with nerves during his short program Saturday and stepped out of his triple axel and then under-rotated his quad lutz, finishing in a staggering second pThe stakes Sunday couldn't have been higher as his teammates anxiously watched as he took the ice with their fate on his blades.
"I was more nervous watching Ilia than I was [skating] myself," team captain and pairs skater Danny O'Shea said.lace -- a rarity for him and more than 10 points out of first.
International Glance
Every morning, university professor Hassan El-Nabih straps his briefcase and laptop to his bicycle and rides out in search of a place with electricity and an internet connection, hoping to reach his students online.
Russia offered the US a $12 trillion economic cooperation package, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.
Vice President JD Vance was reportedly booed at the Milan Cortina Winter Games as U.S. Olympians denounced President Donald Trump's administration.
Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across several West Bank towns on Wednesday, firing toxic tear gas into residential areas, causing dozens of suffocation injuries, and abducting two brothers from the Jenin district.





























