Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes of Team Canada celebrate after winning the Women's Round Robin match against Team Republic of Korea on day thirteen of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

Thursday at the Olympics is headlined by the U.S. facing Canada for women's hockey gold and figure skater Alysa Liu looking to snap a 20-year U.S. drought.

Alysa Liu retired from figure skating, but she's back to go for Winter Olympics gold medal for Team USA originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Alysa Liu hasn't missed an Olympic cycle.

Win, and you're in. With a victory over Switzerland, the United States would guarantee itself a spot in the playoffs. In the end, it wasn't that simple, but Team USA secured their spot in the semifinals with a narrow 7-6 win over Switzerland that came down to a clutch hammer from Tabitha Peterson in an extra end.

Team GB are hoping for more medal success this evening - after two golds on Sunday ensured they will leave the 2026 Olympic Winter Games as history makers. Follow the latest below.

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Malinin is the son of two Russian-born Olympic figure skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who competed for Uzbekistan at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. They later moved to Virginia, where Ilia was born in 2004. He started skating at age 6.