Team USA caps golden run at the Winter Olympics
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | It was a strong finish for Team USA at the Milano Cortina Games as they brought home the most gold medals for the country in a single Winter Olympics. |
| 0:10.0 | The U.S. men's hockey win over Canada wrapped up the games in dramatic fashion as the team's first gold since 1980. |
| 0:17.5 | For more on that and some signal achievements from these games, I spoke earlier today with Christine Brennan of USA Today, joined us from Milan. |
| 0:26.6 | Christine, it's great to see you. Thanks for being with us. |
| 0:28.6 | Omna, my pleasure. Thank you. |
| 0:30.6 | Okay, so a record number of winter goals there with Team USA and skating, skiing, and more. |
| 0:34.6 | But let's start with those hockey wins. Both the men's and |
| 0:39.0 | women's teams had to go into overtime to beat their arch rivals, Canada. I think the iconic |
| 0:43.4 | image from the men's game may be this, Jack Hughes, with a big smile, missing a few teeth |
| 0:49.2 | after that game as well. What did that win mean for the team and for the country? |
| 0:55.3 | Omna, for the men's team. It was the first gold medal in 46 years since 1980, |
| 1:00.0 | the miracle on ice. And in fact, at the, what they call the winter house, the party area |
| 1:05.1 | afterwards, all the players, the men's players were there. And they were lifting Micahruzioni, |
| 1:09.7 | the captain of that 1980 team and screaming, miracle, miracle were there, and they were lifting Micahruzioni, the captain of that |
| 1:11.0 | 1980 team and screaming, miracle, miracle, miracle, as they celebrated into the night in Milan. |
| 1:17.5 | So the tie in there was extraordinary, even though the parallels are completely different. |
| 1:22.8 | There are no parallels in the sense that that was a bunch of amateurs and college kids beating |
| 1:27.3 | the big red |
| 1:27.9 | machine to Soviet Union in 1980. |
| 1:30.0 | This is an all-star team, the Americans, the Canadians, others that are NHL players who know each other |
| 1:35.6 | very well, obviously competing for their nations. |
| 1:38.0 | But a great moment for men's hockey following, of course, the great success of the women's team, |
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