Breezy Johnson secured the first gold medal for Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on Sunday, while the United States also celebrated a victory in team figure skating, according to NPR News and Time. However, the day was marked by both triumph and setback, as alpine skier Lindsey Vonn crashed during her comeback quest and was transported to the hospital with a broken leg, as reported by NPR News.
Johnson's gold medal in the women's downhill race was a career first for the 30-year-old skier from Idaho, who had previously crashed during training at Cortina, ending her hopes of competing in the 2022 Winter Games, according to NPR News. The U.S. team figure skating victory at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics marked a repeat performance, as the team retained the title it won four years ago in Beijing, according to Time. Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who competed in the team event in 2022 and skated in both the rhythm and free dance in Milan, earned Team USA the maximum 20 points for their portions, contributing to the overall win, according to Time.
In other news, the U.S. gave Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a deal to end the nearly four-year war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters, according to The Associated Press via NPR News. If the deadline is not met, the Trump administration will likely put pressure on both sides to meet it, he added.
Meanwhile, in Japan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's coalition won a landslide victory in a general election on Sunday, a result that could significantly alter the country's relationship with China and lead to deep economic reforms, according to Time. Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was projected to win as many as 328 of the 465 seats in the parliament's lower house, enough to form a supermajority, according to Time. "I wanted the voters to give me a mandate because I advocated for responsible, proactive fiscal policy that would significantly shift economic and fiscal policy," Takaichi told public broadcaster NHK late Sunday, according to Time.
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