Winter Olympics

The 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships wrapped up on Saturday, with Ilia Malinin, the Quad God, repeating as world champion in the men’s free skate at TD Garden in Boston.

The 20-year-old landed six quadruple jumps to claim his second straight world title, earning a total score of 318.56 points, more than 31 points ahead of second-place finisher Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan, who took silver. Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama secured the bronze.

Here are the full results from Saturday’s action, courtesy of NBC Sports. 

Men's Free Skate

Gold: Ilia Malinin (USA) — 318.56

Silver: Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ) — 287.47

Bronze: Yuma Kagiyama (JPN) — 278.19

4. Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) -- 275.48

5. Kevin Aymoz (FRA) -- 272.52

6. Shun Sato (JPN) -- 270.56

7. Cha Jun-Hwan (KOR) -- 265.74

8. Jason Brown (USA) -- 265.40

9. Nika Egadze (GEO) -- 263.03

10. Nikolaj Memola (ITA) -- 255.13

Ice Dance

Gold: Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) — 222.06

Silver: Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN) -- 216.54 

Bronze: Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson (GBR) — 207.11

4. Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri (ITA) -- 206.46

5. Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko (USA) -- 204.88 

6. Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha (CAN) -- 200.41

7. Olivia Smart/Tim Dieck (ESP) -- 200.92

8. Evgeniia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud (FRA) -- 194.63

9. Caroline Green/Michael Parsons (USA) -- 192.47

10. Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin (GEO) -- 190.50

Full results can be found here

In Ice Dance, the United States' Madison Chock and Evan Bates clinched their third consecutive world championship gold medal after receiving 90.18 points in the rhythm dance portion and 131.88 points in the free dance, totaling 222.06 points.

Chock and Bates are the first couple to win three consecutive world championships since Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov of Russia did so from 1994 to 1997.

Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier took silver with 216.54 points and Great Britain’s Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson took bronze with 207.11.

American snowboarder Chloe Kim won halfpipe gold at the World Championships on Saturday in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

The 24-year-old secured her third world title with a dominant first run, scoring 93.50 after landing a double cork 1080 and double 900s.

“I think I am back (on top of my game)," Kim told the FIS after the win. "I started to find the joy for the sport again and that has been a positive change.”

Her second run was a victory lap, during which she attempted a cab 1260— a trick no woman has ever landed in competition— but fell on the landing.

“My favorite part about a victory lap is trying to progress the sport and try to do the craziest run I’ve ever done,” Kim continued “I was hoping to put that down here, but next time.”

Japan’s Sara Shimizu took silver (90.75), while Mitsuki Ono earned bronze (88.50).

Poor weather delayed Saturday's final by more than two hours, taking a toll on the riders in their final runs.

“Today was definitely a big mental battle, I think for all the ladies,” Kim said. “I definitely had a couple mental breakdowns during practice, so I’m just really happy I was able to land something.”

Her comeback season after a two-year break to focus on her mental health and recover from burnout following the 2022 Beijing Games—where she won her second Olympic gold medal—began in January with a victory at the Aspen X Games.

There, she made history by becoming the first woman to land frontside and cab double cork 1080s.

“(I) just want to kind of reset. I don’t want to get right back into it after such a fun, but draining year, at the same time, knowing that it was an Olympic year," Kim said in 2022 after her announcement that she would be stepping away, per NBC News' Marlene Lenthang. 

With the win, Kim clinched a spot in the 2026 Winter Olympics next February in Milano Cortina.

Day 3 of the 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships came to an end on Friday, with some hardware handed out.

U.S. skater Alysa Liu wrapped up a stellar free skate performance, earning a gold medal and becoming the first American women's figure skating world champion since 2006.

In the ice dance, Madison Chock and Evan Bates sat atop the leaderboard following their rhythm dance at TD Garden in Boston.

Here are the full results from Friday's competition.

Ice Dance

1. Madison Chock / Evan Bates (USA) - 90.18
2. Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier (CAN) - 86.44
3. Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson (GBR) - 83.86
4. Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri (ITA) - 83.04
5. Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha (CAN) - 81.77
6. Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko (USA) - 81.51
7. Caroline Green / Michael Parsons (USA) - 77.51
8. Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck (ESP) - 77.21
9. Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud (FRA) - 76.74
10. Katerina Mrazkova / Daniel Mrazel (CZE) - 74.49

Women's Free Skate

1. Alysa Liu (USA) - 222.97 (148.39 free skate)
2. Sakamoto Kaori (JPN) - 217.98 (146.95)
3. Chiba Mone (JPN) - 215.24 (141.80)
4. Isabeau Levito (USA) - 209.84 (136.51)
5. Amber Glenn (USA) - 205.65 (138.00)
6. Higuchi Wakaba (JPN) - 204.58 (132.48)
7. Nina Pinzarrone (BEL) - 199.43 (131.69)
8. Niina Petrokina (EST) - 196.67 (131.09)
9. Lee Haein (KOR) - 194.36 (126.57)
10. Kim Chaeyeon (KOR) - 194.16 (128.49)

Full results can be found here

Chock and Bates took a commanding 3.74-point lead heading into Saturday's free dance, as their 90.18 score represented a new season-best mark.

“We’re the most prepared that we’ve ever been, and we’re ready to go,” Chock said, via NBC Sports' Nick Zaccardi.

They're attempting to become the first pair of ice dancers to win three consecutive world championships in 28 years.

As for Liu, she built upon her lead in Wednesday's short program to secure her spot on top of the podium. It represented another milestone in her comeback after she retired in April 2022 at 16 years old, but came out of retirement in Oct. 2024.

Liu's routine was nearly flawless and included a triple flip, triple Lutz-triple toe, triple Salchow and a double axel.

"I mean, it means so much to me and everything I've been through," Liu said, per the Associated Press (h/t ESPN). "My last skating experience, my time away and this time around -- I'm so happy, I guess. I'm mostly glad I could put out two of my best performances."

The World Figure Skating Championships will continue on Saturday with the ice dance free dance and men's free skate.

The 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships continued on Thursday.

In the men's short program, Ilia Malinin jumped out to an early lead heading into Sunday's free skate as he attempts to defend his world championship.

Meanwhile, Japan's Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi maintained their lead after Wednesday's short program and excelled in the free skate to become two-time world champions.

Here are the full results from Thursday's action.

Men's Short Program

1. Ilia Malinin (USA) 110.41
2. Kagiyama Yuma (JPN) 107.09
3. Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ) 94.77
4. Kevin Aymoz (FRA) 93.63
5. Sato Shun (JPN) 91.26
6. Nika Egadze (GEO) 90.39
7. Nikolaj Memola (ITA) 87.89
8. Andrew Torgashev (USA) 87.27
9. Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) 87.22
10. Cha Junhwan (KOR) 86.41

Pairs' Free Skate

1. Miura Riku / Kihara Ryuichi (JPN) 219.79 (143.22 free skate)  
2. Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin (GER) 219.08 (145.49)  
3. Sara Conti / Niccolo Macii (ITA) 210.47 (135.86) 
4. Anastasiia Metelkina / Luka Berulava (GEO) 202.21 (130.53)
5. Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps (CAN) 199.76 (132.44)
6. Alisa Efimova / Misha Mitrofanov (USA) 199.29 (135.59)
7. Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea (USA) 195.38 (126.77)
8. Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko (HUN) 193.29 (125.84)
9. Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore (AUS) 188.24 (122.51)
10. Ekaterina Geynish / Dmitrii Chigirev (UZB) 183.01 (120.68)

Full results can be found here

Malinin's 110.41 score was a new personal-best mark. His stellar routine included a quadruple flip, triple Axel and a quad Lutz–triple toe loop combination.

The 20-year-old revealed that he was initially nervous when stepping onto the ice before calming down once his performance started.

"Actually stepping on the ice, I felt more nervous than usual," Malinin said, via USA Today's Tom Schad. "And I didn't understand why. I was like, 'OK, this is interesting.' But once the music started playing and I got into a starting position, I almost fell into that flow state. And it really just took me from there."

As for Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi, they earned gold medals once again after winning silver at the 2024 ISU World Championships. They narrowly won, as their overall score was a mere 0.71 points higher than the German duo of Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin.

The World Championships will continue on Friday with the rhythm dance and women's free skate competitions.

Lindsey Vonn is back on the podium more than five years after she initially announced her retirement from competitive skiing.

Vonn finished in second place, 1.29 seconds back of winner Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland, in Sunday's Super-G at the Ski World Cup Finals in Sun Valley, Idaho.

“I usually do better when the pressure’s higher,” Vonn told NBC Sports (h/t Nick Zaccardi). “It’s the last race of the season. I just put it all on the line.

"This is the level that I know I can ski. I know I can even do better than that. It’s been a rough season of people saying that I can’t, that I’m too old, that I’m not good enough anymore. I think I proved everyone wrong.”

The run, which took place in Vonn's final competition of the season, marked her 408th career World Cup start and 138th podium finish, per Olympics.com's Rory Jiwani.

The race also marked Vonn's first podium finish since her return to racing in December 2024.

Vonn had previously announced her retirement in 2019 amid struggles with knee pain. She underwent partial knee replacement surgery in April 2024 and announced her intention to return to racing last November.

Having turned 40 in October, Vonn is now the oldest woman to ever make a Ski World Cup podium.

Vonn next hopes to qualify for and compete at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics, after which she plans to retire a second time, she told the AP's Andrew Dampf. She currently holds three Olympic medals, including a gold and bronze in downhill as well as a bronze in Super-G.

Three-time Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn provided some insight into her final goal as she returns to alpine skiing.

Vonn confirmed on Saturday that she's targeting a trip to the 2026 Winter Olympics, which will occur in the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.

"I've tried to keep everything in perspective and not set goals too high," Vonn said after forerunning the Stifel Birds of Prey World Cup races at Beaver Creek, Colorado. "But ultimately, if I can make it to Cortina, that would be my goal."

The 40-year-old initially stepped away from the sport after the 2019 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, but she announced plans to come out of retirement and join the U.S. Ski Team on Nov. 14.

Vonn's injuries played a role in her break from alpine skiing, revealing that she underwent knee replacement surgery in April. On Saturday, she detailed her recovery from the procedure.

"It feels so amazing to be back," Vonn said. "I can't tell you how big of a difference it makes to be able to ski without pain. It's a completely new world for me. I haven't felt this good in 15 years, so I'm excited to be back."

When she left the tour in 2019, her 82 World Cup wins represented a women's record at the time and she still sits at No. 2 on the all-time leaderboard behind Mikaela Shiffrin at 99.

Vonn was hand-timed at 1:34.1 as a forerunner at Beaver Creek on Saturday, which would have placed her just inside the top 20 of the eventual race (h/t Rory Jiwani of Olympics.com).

Vonn is set to compete in a pair of super-G events at the World Cup in St. Moritz, but an appearance in the Games is her ultimate goal.

Mikaela Shiffrin provided an injury update on Saturday after a nasty crash into the protective fencing during her second run of a World Cup giant slalom race.

In a video released on social media, the star skier said there was "not really too much cause for concern at this point" and that "all scans so far are clear," but that she had a "pretty good abrasion."

Shiffrin was attended to for some time on the course by medical staff after flipping and crashing into the protective fencing during the giant slalom race.

"It's just so sad, of course, to see Mikaela crash like that and skiing so well," Sara Hector—who ultimately won the event with a time of one minute and 53.08 seconds—said on the broadcast. "It breaks my heart and everybody else here."

Shiffrin was leading the pack after her first run by a 0.32-second margin and suffered her injury just five gates away from the finish.

The 29-year-old Shiffrin has not dealt with an excess of injuries during a career that has included two Olympic gold medals, five World Cup titles and seven world championships, though this year has now included two injuries.

In January, she dealt with a sprained MCL and tibiofibular ligament in her left knee. It was the first significant injury for the star skier since 2015 when she tore her MCL and dealt with bone bruising in her right knee. In both circumstances, surgery wasn't required.

It's also rare that Shiffrin doesn't finish races, with only 19 DNFs in 275 World Cup starts. Saturday's injury will keep her out of her best event, the slalom, on Sunday.

Shaun White announced in a social media post on Wednesday that he and his girlfriend, actress Nina Dobrev, are engaged.

According to Vogue's Elise Taylor, White originally had a few other ideas planned for their engagement. The first was for a vacation over the summer, but that plan got scrapped after Dobrev suffered a knee injury in a dirt biking accident. The second idea was for early November when the two planned to be in Cape Town, but White altered that plan after he felt like Dobrev knew it was coming.

"She's an extremely organized person who is rarely surprised, but she loves being surprised," White said, per Taylor.

White ultimately settled on proposing in New York City at the Golden Swan Restaurant, according to Taylor.

White, who has three Olympic gold medals in snowboarding and 15 gold medals at the X Games in both snowboarding and skateboarding, announced that the 2022 Winter Olympics would be his last. He later announced he would no longer compete in snowboarding in any capacity.

With his fruitful snowboarding career now behind him, White has time for other endeavors, one of which will be planning a wedding.

Ryan Wedding, a former snowboarder who represented Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics, is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after being charged with murder and other crimes.

The FBI has issued a reward of up to $50,000 "for information leading to the apprehension, arrest and extradition" of the 43-year-old Wedding.

A federal arrest warrant has been issued for Wedding in the United States District Court, Central District of California.

Wedding, who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list, is being charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to export cocaine, leading a continuing criminal enterprise, murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise and drug crime, and attempt to commit murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise and drug crime.

The U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California released a statement on the matter, citing Wedding and 15 others for "allegedly running and participating" in a transnational cocaine trafficking operation.

"A Canadian former Olympic snowboarder and 15 other defendants have been charged in a 16-count superseding indictment for allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States, and whose leaders orchestrated multiple murders in furtherance of these drug crimes."

Wedding is considered the "superseding indictment's lead defendant." He and 34-year-old Andrew Clark are charged with murder in retaliation for an unpaid drug debt.

The statement reads as follows:

"...the organization resorted to violence—including multiple murders—to achieve its aims. Wedding and Clark allegedly directed the November 20, 2023, murders of two members of a family in Ontario, Canada, in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment that passed through Southern California. Another member of that family survived the shooting but was left with serious physical injuries. Wedding and Clark allegedly also ordered the murder of another victim on May 18, 2024, over a drug debt..."

Per the Associated Press' citing of federal records, Wedding was convicted in 2010 in the United States "of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and was sentenced to prison."

Chris Leather, chief superintendent with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said Wedding also has unresolved and separate drug trafficking charges in Canada dating back to 2015, according to the AP.

Wedding represented Canada in one event, the men's parallel giant slalom, finishing 24th in Salt Lake City.