Winter Olympics 2026 AM roundup: Mathilde Gremaud takes slopestyle gold again; Breezy Johnson, Mikaela Shiffrin team up in combined

Monday is another busy day at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. Five gold medals are up for grabs in men’s team combined alpine skiing, women’s slopestyle, men’s normal hill individual, women’s big air, and the women’s 1000m speed skating.

Also, the U.S. women’s hockey team looks to improve to 3-0 when they take on Switzerland at 2:40 p.m. ET.

As we wait for those events, there were several that took place early Monday morning, including one that saw another gold medal handed out.

Here are the top stories of the day so far:

1. Mathilde Gremaud owns slopestyle again

Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud won her second straight gold medal in the women’s slopestyle, besting China’s Eileen Gu in a tight final day of competition.

Gu held the top spot following the first run with a score of 86.58 compared to Gremaud’s 83.60. But the second run saw Gremaud move ahead of Gu with an 86.98.

Needing a strong score to have a shot at gold, Gu fell on first rail in her third and final run to give Gremaud her second consecutive Olympic title. Gu had to settle for silver for the second straight Olympics.

Avery Krumme, the youngest competitor in the field at 17 years old, finished in 11th place with a score of 52.90

2. Breezy Johnson, Mikaela Shiffrin team up

The women’s combined event will take place on Tuesday and U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced the pairings for the event that sees a downhill skier teamed up with a slalom skier.

Johnson, who earned the USA’s second gold medal in women’s downhill on Sunday, is paired with two-time Olympic gold medalist and eight-time World Champion Mikaela Shiffirin.

Here’s who the U.S. will send out together on Monday:

Team 1: Breezy Johnson (downhill), Mikaela Shiffrin (slalom)
Team 2: Jackie Wiles (downhill), Paula Moltzan (slalom)
Team 3: Bella Wright (downhill), Nina O’Brien (slalom)
Team 4: Keely Cashman (downhill), AJ Hurt (slalom)

3. U.S. mixed curling doubles team loses, moves on to semifinals

The U.S. team of Cory Thiesse and Kory Dropkin lost their final round-robin match to Italy 7-6, but they won’t have to wait long for revenge. Both teams finished 6-3 and will meet in the semifinals on Monday at 12:05 p.m. ET.

Great Britain (8-1) will meet Sweden (5-4) in the other semifinal. Tuesday will be a medal day with the bronze medal match at 8:05 a.m. ET and the gold medal final at 12:05 p.m. ET.

4. Italy out front in men’s team combined

Giovanni Franzoni won silver in Saturday’s downhill and followed that up with a strong showing in the downhill portion of the men’s team combined with a time of 1:51.80. The Italian will now wait to see what teammate Alex Vinatzer can do in the slalom portion later this morning.

Three Swiss teams are right behind the Italians, with Alexis Money (+0.17), Marco Odermatt (+.28) and Franjo von Allmen, who won gold in the men’s downhill on Saturday, placing second, third and fourth, respectively.