Breezy Johnson notches Team USA's first gold medal at 2026 Winter Olympics

Breezy Johnson enactment Team USA connected the committee Sunday erstwhile she won a golden medal successful the alpine skiing women’s downhill lawsuit astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Johnson was the sixth rider to spell down the upland and scorched the people with a 1:36.10 time. She wasn’t precisely the favourite going into the contention and had to clasp her enactment arsenic 30 different competitors had to spell downhill aft her.

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United States' Breezy Johnson celebrates astatine the decorativeness country of an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Italy’s Sofia Goggia won a metallic medal successful 2022 and a golden successful 2018 and had a bully accidental to prime up different golden medal successful the Milan Cortina event. However, 1 mendacious determination threw her clip disconnected capable to support Johnson successful the lead.

Johnson besides had to hold done Lindsey Vonn’s run. But Vonn’s hopes of eclipsing her American teammate and propulsion disconnected a miraculous golden medal triumph came to a nasty halt.

As Vonn entered the archetypal sector, she crashed hard. The lawsuit was enactment connected clasp for respective minutes arsenic aesculapian professionals tended to Vonn and waited for a chopper to transportation her disconnected the mountain. She was coming to the lawsuit injured arsenic she ruptured her ACL successful a clang earlier the Olympics began. Vonn powered done a grooming league connected Friday to beryllium capable to enactment successful the event.

United States' Breezy Johnson speeds down the people during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Johnson is the archetypal American to medal astatine the Winter Olympics. It’s besides the archetypal clip she’s medaled astatine immoderate Games. She was expected to vie for Team USA successful 2022 but a genu wounded forced her disconnected the team.

She is the 2nd American pistillate to instrumentality golden successful the event, pursuing successful Vonn's footsteps.

United States' Breezy Johnson speeds down the people during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Germany's Emma Aicher won the metallic medal and Goggia picked up the bronze.

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The Wyoming autochthonal won golden medals astatine the 2025 World Championships successful downhill and squad combined. Now, she tin telephone herself an Olympic golden medalist.

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