As the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics approach their final weekend, the competition is only intensifying. The word is focused on the action, with medals yet to be awarded across eight disciplines, including cross-country skiing, speed skating, bobsleigh.

Both Kaila Kuhn and Winter Vinecki had a shot to medal for Team USA after advancing to the final run among the top 6 competitors in women's aerials.

The run started out strong as Goepper, who sat in bronze medal position at the start of his third and final run, prepared to go big.

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.

Team USA's figure skater Ilia Malinin, who is best known as the "Quad God" for his signature quadruple axel, is reacting to his performance during the 2026 Winter Olympics free skate competition. CBS

In addition, the Olympic Games are also an opportunity to learn about history, geography, and math. For example, students can create tables of results and graph data points to make predictions for remaining events. Older students can try to estimate the economic impact of the event on the host country.

Lawrenceburg native Nick Goepper finished just short of the Olympic podium in Milan-Cortina after a hard fall in the ski halfpipe final.

Canada’s controversial men’s team will have the curling power’s last chance at Olympic gold at the Milan Cortina Games