Klaebo becomes the most decorated Winter Olympian ever at Milano Cortina, what was your standout moment from these Games

[Georgia97]

The Milano Cortina Winter Olympics produced no shortage of genuinely historic moments, but Norway's Johannes Klaebo topped them all, winning six gold medals across the cross country skiing programme to push his career total to eleven Olympic golds and establish himself as the outright all time leader in Winter Games gold medals, a staggering individual haul from a single Games that will take some serious effort for anyone to ever match.

Elsewhere on the mountain, 41 year old American skier Lindsey Vonn provided one of the more sobering moments of the entire Games, crashing just twelve seconds into her downhill run during her fifth Olympic appearance following a five year retirement, and needing to be evacuated from the mountain by helicopter stretcher, a stark reminder of the physical risks these athletes take on even at the very top of a sport they have mastered over decades. On the ice, figure skater Ilia Malinin became the first competitor to land a backflip at the Winter Olympics since 1976, a genuinely rare piece of skating history, though it was Japan's Yuma Kagiyama who ultimately claimed gold ahead of Malinin's silver medal winning score of 98.00.

Team USA's men's hockey side delivered arguably the single biggest result of the Games for American fans specifically, beating Canada 2-1 in the gold medal match to claim their first Olympic hockey title in 46 years, since the famous Lake Placid triumph of 1980. Meanwhile Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu added a sixth Olympic medal to her collection, making her the most decorated Olympic freestyle skier in history, an achievement that arrived alongside the ongoing debate around her earlier decision to represent China at these Games rather than the United States, where she was born and originally developed as a skier.

[ShadowKernel]

Klaebo finishing with eleven career Olympic golds and six from a single Games is one of those stats that just does not feel real when you actually stop and read it properly. Cross country skiing does not always get the attention it deserves and this should change that.

[Quasar Ruby]

The Lindsey Vonn crash is honestly hard to watch even reading about it after the fact. Competing at 41 after a five year retirement takes real courage on its own, and it is a brutal way for that comeback story to have gone at this specific stage of her career.

[MiguelCardozo]

What stood out to me most was just how many genuinely different storylines these Games produced across totally separate sports. Most Olympics get remembered for one or two big moments, this one had at least four or five that will each stick around independently.

[StringTheory98]

Klaebo's dominance almost overshadowed everything else at these Games for me. Six golds in one Winter Olympics from a single athlete is the kind of number that usually only gets mentioned in the same breath as Michael Phelps at the Summer Games.

[Linda]

USA beating Canada for hockey gold after 46 years is going to be talked about for a generation in American winter sports circles. That Lake Placid comparison is not hyperbole either, it genuinely echoes that whole Miracle on Ice era of significance for American hockey.

[Mesh Gareth]

Malinin landing that backflip is such a throwback moment given it had not been done at an Olympics since 1976. Shame he could not quite land gold to go with the historic jump, but Kagiyama clearly had the stronger overall programme on the day regardless.

[BookerT]

The Eileen Gu conversation is never going to fully go away no matter how many medals she adds to the collection, and honestly that is probably fair given how genuinely significant her original decision to switch allegiances was at the time she made it.