Handle with care. That's the message from gold medalist Breezy Johnson at the Winter Olympics after she and other athletes found their medals broke within hours.

A new event debuted at the Winter Olympics Monday, with one U.S. team competing for a medal. Here's how they did. (AP Photo)

Catch up with all the 2026 Winter Olympics medals handed after the conclusion of events on Feb. 8.

Maltais joined a select group of skaters in 2022. With a gold medal in the team pursuit event at the 2022 Beijing Games, she became just the fourth skater in history — and the first Canadian — to win an Olympic medal in both speed skating and short track.

From left, Evan Bates, Madison Chock, Ilia Malinin, Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, Ellie Kim and Danny O’Shea of Team USA celebrate winning the gold medal after the figure skating team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

While the U.S. is on top of the overall Olympic medal count, it is not the country that dominates winter sports like the 2026 Milano Cortina Games in Italy.

Alpine skiing women's downhill Olympic champion Breezy Johnson told reporters that she broke her gold medal during celebrations after Sunday's run. "Don't jump in them.

If a torn ACL hasn’t stopped Lindsey Vonn’s pursuit of an Olympic gold medal at age 41, can the world's best skiers?