Breezy Johnson puts U.S. in Olympic team combined lead
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Breezy Johnson spoke with USA TODAY Sports about her Olympic downhill gold medal, what it means — and how it broke.
The big story over the weekend at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi was Lindsey Vonn’s crash in the women’s downhill on Sunday. For Vonn, her Olympic experience in Milan was not supposed to end this way after
American ski racer Breezy Johnson won the Olympic downhill with a hard-charging run on a day marred by teammate Lindsey Vonn's crash that saw her being taken off the mountain in a helicopter.
Swiss skier Franjo von Allmen won the first gold medal of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics over the weekend, and he added another on Day 3. It’s turning into quite the Olympic debut for von Allmen, who partnered with Tanguy Nef to win the team combined Monday in the event’s Olympic debut.