An all-time great comeback and a controversial exclusion were the dominant stories at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Day 6. NHL players on the U.S. and Canada teams also joined the action in their opening men’s hockey games.

Ukraine's sports minister has decried a potential softening of restrictions against Russian athletes where they might ultimately be able to compete in the future under their national flag rather than as "Individual Neutral Athletes.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Vladyslav Heraskevych to praise his actions and honour him with a medal after the athlete was disqualified owing to the images of Ukrainian war dead on his helmet