Overview
- Ilia Malinin topped the men's short program with 108.16 points, skipped the quad Axel, included a backflip, and enters Friday's free skate as the clear favorite after team gold.
- Women's doubles luge debuted at the Olympics with Italy's Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer taking gold and Germany's Dajana Eitberger and Magdalena Matschina earning silver by 0.12 seconds.
- IOC entry limits allowed only one sled per nation, reducing the doubles luge field to 11 teams and excluding Germany’s world medalists Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal.
- Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen captured downhill, team combination and Super-G to complete a three-gold haul, becoming the first man since 1968 to win three alpine titles at one Games.
- Norway’s Sturla Holm Lægreid won biathlon bronze before publicly admitting in a TV interview he had cheated on his partner, while Finland’s men lost 1–4 to Slovakia in hockey, Germany’s Selina Grotian placed 55th in the biathlon individual, and Kristine Stavas Skistad’s sprint fifth drew sharp Swedish media criticism.