Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin are halfway to pairs figure skating gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics.

Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany took a sizable lead in the Olympic pairs figure skating short program in Milano-Cortina, topping a tightly contested field ahead of Monday’s free skate.

Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara soared from fifth place to Olympic gold with a world-record free skate on Monday. See full pairs results, medalists and dramatic highlights from Milano-Cortina.

French biathlon great Martin Fourcade and the German relay team received gold medals from the 2010 and 2014 Olympics respectively on Sunday in a reallocation ceremony at the Milan/Cortina Games. The ceremony took place in the sold-out Anterselva biathlon stadium between the men's and women's Olympic pursuit races in the presence of International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry.

ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) — French biathlon star Martin Fourcade and the 2014 German men's Olympic relay team are among the medalists who are scheduled to be honored Sunday during a medal reallocation ceremony at the Antholz-Anterselva Biathlon Arena at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

Figure skater Nikita Volodin is a medal contender for Germany with his partner Minerva Hase in pairs figure skating.

An advertising campaign by German rail firm Deutsche Bahn for the Winter Games has angered Germany's Olympic boss, who says any proceeds should have funded sports not company profits. State-owned Deutsche Bahn,

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