Overview
- Jordan Stolz won the men’s 1,000m speed skating in 1:06.28, an Olympic record that added to Team USA’s surge to 12 medals.
- France topped ice dance with Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron taking gold, Madison Chock and Evan Bates earning silver, and Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier securing bronze.
- With NHL players back at the Olympics for the first time since 2014, Canada opened men’s hockey by beating Czechia 5–0 as Connor McDavid logged three assists.
- Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was excluded after refusing to change a helmet honoring athletes killed in the war, which the IOC said violated on‑venue expression rules.
- Organizers implemented a targeted fix for a small number of snapped medals, while WADA said it is examining evidence regarding a widely circulated ski‑jumping injection rumor.