China's Zhongyan Ning upset American Jordan Stolz with an Olympic-record 1:41.98 in the men's speed skating 1,500-meter final Thursday in Milan.

China's Ning Zhongyan set an Olympic record on his way to gold in the men's speed skating over 1,500 metres on Thursday, denying United States' Jordan Stolz a hat-trick of individual gold medals at the Milan/Cortina Winter Games.

Ning Zhongyan wins the gold in the 1500m speed skating event with an Olympic record time of 1:41.98 🏅 He is the first Chinese men's skater to win gold in this event, and it is just the third gold medal for China in speed skating 👏 pic.twitter.com/tzJqEghMgc

Italy upstaged world record-holding Team USA to win gold in the 2026 Winter Olympics men's speed skating team pursuit Tuesday in Milan.

The U.S. team featured Casey Dawson, Ethan Cepuran and Emery Lehman. Conor McDermott-Mostowy competed for the team in earlier rounds.

American Alysa Liu won gold in women's figure skating, becoming the first American woman to do so since 2002. American speedskater Jordan Stolz took silver in the 1,500-meter final. He'd previously won two gold medals at these Games, and he'll have another shot to medal Saturday.