MILAN \u2014 The U.S. men won the Olympic silver medal in the men\u2019s team pursuit in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics Tuesday, Feb. 17.<\/p>\n
The Americans fell to host nation Italy in the finals after beating China by a whopping 7.93 seconds in the semifinals. Italy defeated the Netherlands, the speed-skating powerhouse, in the other semifinal race.<\/p>\n
The U.S. team featured Casey Dawson, Ethan Cepuran and Emery Lehman. Conor McDermott-Mostowy competed for the team in earlier rounds.<\/p>\n
With the teams lined up on opposite sides of the 400-meter track in a head-to-head match, a trio of skaters representing each country glided around the track until completing eight laps. Italy clocked a time of 3:39.20, beating Team USA by 4.51 seconds.<\/p>\n
China outdueled the Netherlands for bronze.<\/p>\n
Since the team pursuit event was added to the Olympics in 2006, the U.S. men had medaled twice before \u2013 a silver in 2010 and a bronze in 2022.<\/p>\n
Dawson, Cepuran and Lehman were part of that bronze-winning team in 2022.<\/p>\n
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Italy beats USA for Olympic silver in men’s speed skating team pursuit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n