Captain Leon Draisaitl has said that the German ice hockey team lacked a proper plan at the Olympics and suggested that pre-Games expectations in them were also too high. Germany had hoped for a medal but went out in the quarter-finals against Slovakia at the Olympic tournament in Milan last week.

The chairman of the German Olympics body DOSB has defended the German athletes after they received harsh criticism for their performance at the Milan/Cortina Winter Games, which ended on Sunday. "It's not a disaster as some couch athletes like to say,

German-born skater Julia Sauter, who competed for Romania at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, achieved the best results in the country’s history in women’s Olympic figure skating. She finished the competition in 17th place,

American sliders Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, and Kaillie Humphreys, 40, secure gold and bronze medals. Meyers-Taylor built on her record as the Black athlete with the most Winter Olympics medals.