MILAN (AP) — Steven Dubois prevented Dutch short track speedskating star Jens van ’t Wout from making it three victories out of three at the Milan Cortina Olympics by winning the men's 500 meters on Wednesday.

South Korea and Canada denied the Dutch a fifth- or sixth-straight short track gold in Milan Wednesday, topping the podium in the women's 3000m and the men's 500m, respectively.

The luge relay event is still relatively new to the Winter Olympics and has a new competent since the last Games. The 2014 Olympics was the first to include the relay. Here’s how it works: each competing nation send down four sleds — one women’s singles, one men’s doubles, one men’s singles, and one women’s doubles.

Germany is now 4-for-4 in the team event in the Olympic program, winning yet another gold medal to end this year's luge slate at the Cortina track. The team of women's singles gold medalist Julia Taubitz,

Stay upright. That was the key to gold in the women’s cross-country skiing relay on Saturday, as wet, slushy conditions landed Sweden in second and Norway at the top of the podium for its second women’s cross-country skiing medal of these Olympics and first gold.

Julia Kern, Rosie Brennan, Novie McCabe and Jessie Diggins combined for a time of 1 hour 17 minutes and 37 seconds, just 1 minute, 52.2 seconds behind Norway, which claimed the gold.

Germany remained undefeated in the luge team relay, taking an emphatically dominant gold medal to cap off luge competition at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.

Steven Dubois crossed the finish line with his mouth and his arms competing over which could open wider. He had just won gold in the men’s 500-metre short track final, beating fellow Canadian William Dandjinou and three Dutch skaters,