Team USA wasn’t expected to get many medals Thursday. But the events it was in contention for were important ones. The U.S. came into Thursday still third in overall medals, still trailing Norway and Italy.

Alysa Liu lands most difficult combination in women's figure skating competition to post big score, chase gold medal at Olympics originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. She's lighter, happier, freer -- and she's in contention for a figure skating gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Stream every moment and every medal of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games on Peacock. Read more NBC News coverage of the Olympics and the athletes competing. American Alysa Liu won gold in women's figure skating, becoming the first American woman to do so since 2002.

Gold medals are usually chosen by the skates that are free and skated with wild abandon, and she is the skater capable of that.” – Tara Lipinski on Olympic champion Alysa Liu

Frostad swiped the gold medal back from Forehand by equalling that 98.25 on his final run, giving Norway its 14th gold of this year's Games. While Forehand couldn't nab gold, he walked away with an impressive silver medal in what commentators called the best Big Air competition they've ever seen with outrageous scoring from the entire field.

Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu will be leaving the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics with at least two silver medals. She could add one more medal to her total if she can qualify for Saturday's women's skiing halfpipe final.

The 2026 Winter Olympics ran into an odd situation last week when an Italian media outlet reported that a condom shortage is plaguing the massive global sporting event. With over 2,900 athletes competing at the Milan-Cortina Games,