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The 79th Motocross of Nations (MXoN) begins in Ernée, France, with Team Mexico securing the first gate pick for Saturday's qualifying races, while Team USA draws 26th. Simultaneously, the Progressive GNCC season resumes at Mason-Dixon in Pennsylvania. Team GB aims for a top-10 finish, leveraging the technical track layout, while Australia defends its title from the previous edition.
The Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics closed in Verona with an opera-inspired ceremony, final medals awarded in the 50km cross-country events, and a handover of the Olympic flag to 2030 hosts France; Team GB achieved its best Winter Games yet with five medals (three golds), Norway topped the medal table, and Italy celebrated its strongest Games to date with 10 golds and 30 medals.
Zoe Atkin won bronze in the women's halfpipe at the 2026 Winter Olympics, giving Team GB its fifth medal and equalling the country’s best-ever medal haul as Eileen Gu took gold.
Team GB aim for curling gold in the men’s final against Canada, while the women’s halfpipe final is postponed due to heavy snowfall in Livigno, delaying part of Milano-Cortina 2026’s Winter Olympics schedule.
Britain's women’s curling team, led by Sophie Jackson with Jen Dodds among the veterans, fought back to beat the United States and keep their Olympic semi-final hopes alive; meanwhile the British men face a must-win situation against the U.S. to have any chance at medals, with further help needed from Italy or Norway.
Norway’s Tormod Frostad won the men’s freeski big air gold on the final jump with a 98.5, edging his rivals Mac Forehand (USA) and Matej Svancer (Austria) as Germany swept the two-man bobsleigh podium; meanwhile Team GB fell to Canada in curling, with Norway extending its lead atop the Winter Olympics medal table as the day featured a range of events from skating to sprinting.
Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won Great Britain's first-ever Winter Olympic gold on snow in the mixed team snowboard cross at Milan-Cortina 2026, overcoming earlier disappointments in their individual events as Bankes surged to beat Italy’s Michela Moioli by 0.43 seconds, with Nightingale delivering the.championing ride to seal GB’s second medal of the Games after Matt Weston’s skeleton gold.
Lindsey Vonn is stable after surgery on a leg fracture from a horror downhill crash at the Winter Olympics, while Team GB’s Kirsty Muir and Mia Brookes are among Britain’s medal hopes, with Brookes squeezing into the Big Air final after a nervy start and Muir set to compete in the women’s freeski slopestyle final; Day 3 of Milan-Cortina 2026 features multiple events across alpine, freestyle and more.
Britain's Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds extended their unbeaten run to seven wins by beating Canada and the United States to reach the Winter Olympics mixed doubles curling semi-finals, with Sunday’s matches against Switzerland and Italy determining their last-four opponent.