One married couple will spend Valentine's Day going head-to-head in an Olympic medal event. Belgium's Kim Meylemans and Brazil's Nicole Rocha Silveira are competing in the women's skeleton event at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games -- just over a year after they tied the knot.
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The 2026 Winter Olympics are in full swing in Milan, Italy, and the Olympic medal count as of the end of the day on Friday, Feb. 13, has revealed that two countries are neck-and-neck for the top spot. Neither of those countries is the United States, either, but the United States is No. 3 in the standings, as of Friday.
Valentine’s Day is in the air, but it will look different for Kim Meylemans and Nicole Rocha Silveira. Instead of dinner plans, the married couple wil.
But, a handful of countries are surprising analysts and ranking higher than expected. One of those countries is Japan, which sits at No. 10 in the medal count as of the end of the Games on Thursday. Another one is Australia, which only has one lone gold medal, but that still puts them at No. 14 on the ranking.
It’s been 106 years since “ice hockey,” so called to differentiate it from the game that’s played on grass, made its Olympic debut, the Winnipeg Falcons winning the historic first gold medal at Antwerp, Belgium in 1920, representing Canada.
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