RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With Brazil entering the joyous throes of Carnival, Alpine ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on Saturday gave it another reason to celebrate — an Olympic medal. It was the first-ever medal at the Winter Games for any country in South America.

According to La Stampa, an Italian newspaper, the 10,000 gratis prophylactics available to the athletes at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games have run out in record-breaking time -- i.e., three days. “The supplies ran out in just three days,” an anonymous athlete told the newspaper. “They promised us more will arrive, but who knows when.”

We do have two Americans into the final eight, though. Charlie Mickel upset the gold medalist from the moguls, Cooper Woods — with the Australian bailing out of his final jump to hand Mickel the win. Dylan Walczyk is also through and faces Horishima in the quarterfinals.

Athletes from more than 90 countries will compete for Winter Olympic medals in 116 events over 16 days, and USA TODAY is keeping a tally of every nation finishing on the podium. Here's a look at the latest medal standings on the morning of Friday,

Follow along for live coverage from Day 9 of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, which sees nine more Winter Olympics gold medals won. One of today's big storylines will be American Mikaela Shiffrin competing in women's alpine skiing giant slalom.

Recapping Day 8 of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Jordan Stolz won another speedskating gold medal and South American won its first medal ever in the Winter Games.

At the Winter Olympics today, Ilia Malinin skates for gold, the USA women's hockey team plays, and men's halfpipe is settled. Follow along live.

The Winter Olympics bring sports we barely see outside of these few weeks. Many of them look exciting. Some of them look like a bad idea for normal people. A lot of these events mix speed, ice, height,

An anonymous athlete has revealed that the 2026 Winter Olympic Village has run out of condoms, with athletes going through nearly 3,000 in three days

Nobody is forced to come to the Olympics. The athletes in Milan and Cortina dreamed about these two weeks long before the flames were lit in northern Italy. For others who arrived here as the bold-faced names in their sport and heavy medal favorites,

The director of "Fists of Freedom," a documentary about Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, says the reaction to Olympians speaking out has some similarities and differences to 1968.