LIVIGNO, Italy – After a scare, Eileen Gu kept alive her quest for a third Olympic freestyle skiing medal in consecutive Games. She fell in her first run of the snowy women’s halfpipe qualifying on Feb. 19 before rallying to advance to the Feb. 21 finals.

But, per usual with her, that was only part of the evening’s story.

Afterward, the American-born Gu – who represents China as one of the most famous athletes in these Olympics – responded to questions about the criticism she receives in the United States.

That, recently, included Vice President JD Vance. In an interview with Fox News, Vance said, referring to Gu, he hoped someone who grew up in the U.S. would “want to compete with the United States.”

Gu didn’t take offense to Vance’s words, she said, and as for Vance wanting her to compete for the U.S., she replied playfully, “I’m flattered. Thanks, JD! That’s sweet.”

Continuing the theme, Gu replied in the affirmative when asked whether she feels “like a bit of a punching bag for a certain strand of American politics at the moment.’

“I do,” Gu said. “So many athletes compete for a different country. … People only have a problem with me doing it because they kind of lump China into this monolithic entity, and they just hate China. So it’s not really about what they think it’s about.

“And also, because I win. Like if I wasn’t doing well, I think that they probably wouldn’t care as much, and that’s OK for me. People are entitled to their opinions.”

Asked about her safety, the 22-year-old Gu said she had been assaulted on Stanford’s University’s campus last year.

“Not by a Stanford student,” she said. “Like a person who came and physically attacked me in broad daylight. And then our dorm was robbed. … It was pretty serious, yeah.”

Gu was correct about other athletes competing for other countries, even in the event she’d just competed in on Feb. 19. Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin, who won the halfpipe qualifying with a 91.50 score, was born in Massachusetts.

Two of the four Team USA skiers in the event qualified for the finals, with Svea Irving finishing eighth (80.75) and Kate Gray (74.75) barely making it in 12th place after waiting out a final stretch of competitors alongside her family in attendance.

Though she finished fifth in this qualifying with a clutch second-run 86.50 while facing elimination, Gu will be considered one of the favorites to win another medal, which would give her six and duplicate her historic Beijing Olympics in 2022, when she medaled in the big air, slopestyle and halfpipe events.

“It’s a challenge being the only person in this field competing in another event, let alone two,” Gu said. “Which means I’m coming off two weeks of the highest adrenaline peaks and throughs of my life, pretty much, and everybody else is fresh. … I choose to compete in three events. This is my own bet on myself, so it’s not a complaint. It’s more just painting a picture of the realistic struggles that I’m going through that other people might not.

“Yes, I looked uncharacteristic in my first run. I also haven’t skied halfpipe in two months because I’ve been training slope.”

It was Hilary Knight who provided the U.S. women’s hockey team with a chance of Olympic gold with a late-third-period game-tying goal against Canada.

It was Megan Keller, one of her alternate captains, who provided the game-winner for the United States in overtime.

Keller broke several ankles of Canada’s defense for a chip shot into the back of the net just over four minutes into overtime inside the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on Thursday, Feb. 19 to give the United States the 2-1 gold medal win at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.

It is the third-ever Olympic gold medal for the United States in women’s hockey, and the first since they took down Canada in the gold medal game at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The United States’ first gold medal came in 1998 at the Nagano Winter Olympics, when they also beat Canada.

Team USA had to play from behind in Thursday’s game after Kristin O’Neill scored a shorthanded goal for Canada in the second period. Knight tied the game at 1-1 with her record-breaking 19th Olympic career goal with 2:04 remaining in the third period.

Thursday’s win caps off a perfect 7-0 championship run for the United States in Milan, where it outscored its opponents 33-2.

U.S. women’s hockey scores at 2026 Winter Olympics

Here’s a full list of scores from U.S. women’s hockey games at the 2026 Winter Olympics:

Group A Play: United States 5, Czechia 1
Group A Play: United States 5, Finland 0
Group A Play: United States 5, Switzerland 0
Group A Play: United States 5, Canada 0
Quarterfinals: United States 6, Italy 0
Semifinals: United States 5, Sweden 0
Gold medal game: United States 2, Canada 1 (OT)

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For the first time in a generation, Team USA has a gold-medal winner in individual women’s figure skating.

In doing so, she became the first U.S. figure skater to win a women’s individual gold medal in figure skating since Sarah Hughes did it in 2002.

But it almost didn’t happen.

Liu retired from competition in 2022 – three years after becoming the youngest-ever U.S. figure skating champion.

Here’s what to know about her retirement and her triumphant comeback:

Why did Alysia Liu retire?

Liu, 20, said in an Instagram post in 2022 that she was satisfied with her career. At that time, she’d just won a bronze medal at the 2022 Figure Skating World Championships in Montpellier, France. She became the first U.S. woman to do that in six years.

“I’m here to announce that i am retiring from skating,” she wrote in the caption of her Instagram post. “I started skating when i was 5 so that’s about 11 years on the ice and it’s been an insane 11 years. a lot of good and a lot of bad. … i feel so satisfied with how my skating career has gone. now that i’m finally done with my goals in skating i’m going to be moving on with my life.”

“I was so into skating that I really didn’t do much else,” she said. “Skating takes up your whole life, almost. I don’t know if other people kind of feel the same when they look back at certain parts of their life, but for me, it’s definitely a blur, because it kind of meshes together, you know — going to the rink, going home, competing.’

She enrolled at UCLA in 2023 and decided to take time off from the sport she’d be a phenom in since her early teens.

But she couldn’t stay away forever.

Alysa Liu’s comeback

Liu again took to her Instagram page on March 1, 2024 to make a major announcement teasing her return to the ice. A video of her doing training jumps ended with text reading ‘this 2024-25 season’ and ‘back on the ice,’ signaling her return to the sport.

She got back into her training routine and won gold at the 2025 Figure Skating World Championships in Boston. She took silver in the singles event of the U.S. Championships in both 2025 and 2026 and made Team USA.

In the Olympics once again, she took home the biggest medal of all.

Deion Sanders referenced the scandal at Michigan to explain his cautious behavior.
Sanders stated he keeps his clothes on during spa treatments to avoid compromising situations.
Sanders previously appeared to comment on Moore’s firing on social media without mentioning his name.

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders made an apparent reference to the Sherrone Moore scandal at Michigan when explaining why he keeps his guard up – and his clothes on – when dealing with people outside his trusted circle.

Sanders talked about it on his weekly talk show on Tubi in the episode that aired on Thursday, Feb. 19 with co-host Rocsi Diaz. Sanders was discussing his Valentine’s Day weekend and why he kept his clothes and shoes on under a robe when he laid on a spa table for a facial massage, as shown in a video shared on social media by his girlfriend Karrueche Tran.

“You’re not the only man that I know that is like that, that will not go into a massage parlor or take their clothes off and get a massage,” Diaz said to him on the show “We Got Time Today.”

“I don’t know these folks,” Sanders replied, referring to the staff at the spa. “You know what just happened to the brother at University of Michigan? Hey, hey. Not me. … I’m not gonna bring my ship down. No.”

Sanders didn’t mention the name of Moore, the former Michigan coach who was fired after allegedly having an “inappropriate relationship” with a woman who worked for him. Moore never was accused of any improper conduct during massage sessions, unlike NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson.

But Sanders’ comments are in keeping with his carefulness about his image and any choices he makes that might affect it. His bodyguard even accompanied him on his Valentine’s Day date with Tran to the Royal Gorge in Colorado, as shown in a video posted on YouTube by his son Deion Jr.

Sanders, 58, also seemingly chimed in on the Moore scandal on Dec. 10 − the day Moore got fired and arrested after he allegedly confronted the woman at her home.

“Lord JESUS! Wow.” Sanders wrote on the social media site X that day.

He didn’t mention Moore then, either, but many who responded to him assumed the Michigan scandal was what he was referencing.

The moral of his message Thursday was that there was no need to take unnecessary risks as a public figure.

“Why am I getting naked to get a facial?” Sanders asked.

Sanders and his Colorado team open spring practice March 2 and conclude it with an intrasquad scrimmage and practice on April 11.

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MILAN — Jordan Stolz had us spoiled.

By cruising to Olympic gold in the 500 meters and 1,000 meters, setting Olympic records in the process, he made this quest for history at the 2026 Winter Olympics look easy. Of course he could win the 1,500 meters and then the mass start, giving him four golds at a single Games, something no one but Eric Heiden has done.

But this was never going to be easy. It’s not supposed to be. 

‘I think two gold medals in itself is already a huge accomplishment, and silver’s not bad,’ Stolz said after finishing second to China’s Ning Zhongyan, who blazed to gold in an Olympic record 1:41.98. ‘To be able to have three medals is super cool.

‘The pressure, with expecting four gold medals, that’s not something I was thinking about too much. I was just focusing on my races and what I could do and what I could control. Today Ning had the better race. He was super good. I couldn’t beat him.’

Stolz had been unbeatable at the 1,500 meters this season, winning all five World Cup races. But that doesn’t get you a head start at the Olympics. You don’t get a couple of seconds shaved off your time because you won the World Cup season title.

Stolz has been the guy everyone wants to beat for three years now. While he was focusing on his own races, everyone else was focusing on him. The thought of him was what drove his competitors do that extra training session, to spend that extra hour in the gym.

It is one thing to win an Olympic gold medal. It’s even better when you can do it by taking down the best of the best.

‘I was never expecting that I could win the gold medal today. During the whole season, I never beat Jordan,’ Ning said, incredulous. ‘I still can’t believe I won the race today. After he finished his race, I couldn’t believe that I beat him. I was finally on top of the mountain.’

And make no mistake, Stolz did not lose this race. Ning won it.

Skating two pairs before Stolz and matched with Kjeld Nuis, the defending Olympic champion and world record holder, Ning made his way around the rink as if he was powered by rocket fuel. He did his first lap in 22.99, a blistering pace.

When he finished, he’d eclipsed an Olympic record that was all of about five minutes old, set by Joep Wennemars of the Netherlands.

Stolz thought he could beat Ning, but only if he had a perfect race. When he saw he’d done a 25.4 in his first lap, however, he knew beating Ning was going to be ‘pretty difficult.’ Stolz was able to make up some ground, shaving almost 0.6 seconds off the gap in the last lap.

But it wasn’t enough.

‘I started to die off a little bit. I just couldn’t hold it to the finish to beat his time,’ Stolz said. ‘Maybe I could do better than that time on my best day. I think Ning had the race of his life, and he definitely earned it today.’

That’s how the Olympics goes. The best people don’t always win. Often enough, as Stolz did in the 500 meters and the 1,000 meters. But time and again at these Games alone we’ve seen the favorite hasn’t been the one standing atop the podium, for a variety of reasons.

For Stolz to maintain his peak for four races over a 10-day span, to hold off the pack at four different distances, well, there’s a reason no one’s come close to doing what Heiden did at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, when he won five golds.

‘It probably will never happen again,’ Stolz said. ‘I mean, five gold medals is insane.’

And it’s not because of the pressure.

Because he’s been so dominant and because of the possibility of winning four golds, Stolz is one of the faces of these Games. He’s in commercials and now has a laundry list of sponsors. But if there’s anyone built to be impervious to that kind of pressure, it’s Stolz.

Though he is only 21, he is about as even-keeled as they come. The next time he’s ruffled will be the first.

Was he disappointed not to win? Of course. He’s human, and he had to choke back some emotions as he stood on the medals podium.

But he is also sensible enough to know why he didn’t win. And to be happy for Ning that he did.

‘He tries really hard. He’s always trying to be on the podium and now he was able to win, so that’s super cool for him,’ Stolz said.

To think Stolz was going to waltz off with four gold medals wasn’t just naive, it did a disservice to his competitors.

Ning, Stolz, Nuis and Wennemars — they all skated faster than the time Nuis did four years ago in setting what had been the Olympic record when the night began. This wasn’t just a race, it was a heavyweight fight. Nine times out of 10, Stolz would win it.

But that’s what makes the Olympics so compelling. Nothing is going to come easy, even for Jordan Stolz.

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Another day of competition is in the books at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.

Athletes from more than 90 countries are battling in 116 events over 16 days, and USA TODAY is keeping a tally of every nation finishing on the podium. Here’s a look at the latest medal standings after all the action wrapped up on Thursday, Feb. 19.

Find the upcoming medal event schedule below.

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Broadcast coverage of the 2026 Milano Cortino Winter Olympics is airing exclusively airing across NBC’s suite of networks with many competitions airing live on its streaming service, Peacock, which you can sign up for here.

What is the medal count at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics?

All data accurate as of Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, at 5:56 p.m.

Meet Team USA 2026: Get to know the athletes behind the games

1. Norway: 34 Total (16 Gold, 8 Silver, 10 Bronze)
2. United States: 27 Total (9 Gold, 12 Silver, 6 Bronze)
3. Italy: 26 Total (9 Gold, 5 Silver, 12 Bronze)
4. Japan: 24 Total (5 Gold, 7 Silver, 12 Bronze)
5. Germany: 21 Total (5 Gold, 8 Silver, 8 Bronze)
6. France: 19 Total (6 Gold, 8 Silver, 5 Bronze)
7. Austria: 18 Total (5 Gold, 8 Silver, 5 Bronze)
8. Netherlands: 16 Total (6 Gold, 7 Silver, 3 Bronze)
9. Sweden: 15 Total (6 Gold, 6 Silver, 3 Bronze)
9. Canada: 15 Total (4 Gold, 5 Silver, 6 Bronze)
11. Switzerland: 14 Total (6 Gold, 4 Silver, 4 Bronze)
12. China: 10 Total (3 Gold, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze)
13. South Korea: 7 Total (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze)
14. Australia: 6 Total (3 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze)
15. Finland: 5 Total (0 Gold, 1 Silver, 4 Bronze)
16. Czech Republic: 4 Total (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 0 Bronze)
16. Slovenia: 4 Total (2 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze)
16. Poland: 4 Total (0 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze)
19. Great Britain: 3 Total (3 Gold, 0 Silver, 0 Bronze)
19. New Zealand: 3 Total (0 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze)
21. Spain: 2 Total (1 Gold, 0 Silver, 1 Bronze)
22. Latvia: 2 Total (0 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze)
22. Bulgaria: 2 Total (0 Gold, 0 Silver, 2 Bronze)
24. Brazil: 1 Total (1 Gold, 0 Silver, 0 Bronze)
24. Kazakhstan: 1 Total (1 Gold, 0 Silver, 0 Bronze)
24. Georgia: 1 Total (0 Gold, 1 Silver, 0 Bronze)
24. Individual Neutral Athletes: 1 Total (0 Gold, 1 Silver, 0 Bronze)
24. Belgium: 1 Total (0 Gold, 0 Silver, 1 Bronze)

2026 Winter Olympics medal events upcoming schedule

Feb. 20

FREESTYLE SKIING: Women’s Cross Final
BIATHLON: Men’s 15km Mass Start
SPEED SKATING: Women’s 1500m
CURLING: Men’s Bronze Medal Game
FREESTYLE SKIING: Men’s Halfpipe Final
SHORT TRACK: Men’s 5000m Relay Final
SHORT TRACK: Women’s 1500m Final

Feb. 21

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING: Men’s 50km Mass Start Classic
FREESTYLE SKIING: Mixed Team Aerials Final
FREESTYLE SKIING: Men’s Cross Final
SKI MOUNTAINEERING: Mixed Relay
CURLING: Men’s Gold Medal Game, Women’s Bronze Medal Game
BIATHLON: Women’s 12.5km Mass Start
SPEED SKATING: Men’s, Women’s Mass Start
FREESTYLE SKIING: Women’s Halfpipe Final
ICE HOCKEY: Men’s Bronze Medal Game
BOBSLED: Women’s Doubles: Heat 4

Feb. 22

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING: Women’s 50km Mass Start Classic
CURLING: Women’s Gold Medal Game
BOBSLED: Men’s Quads Final
ICE HOCKEY: Men’s Gold Medal Game

After one of the most successful All-Star breaks in recent memory, the NBA is back to regular season action Thursday night.

Tipping off the home stretch of the season is an Eastern Conference heavyweight matchup: the first-place Detroit Pistons (40-13) head to New York to take on the third-place Knicks (35-20, six games back) at Madison Square Garden.

The Pistons will be without Jalen Duren and Isaiah Stewart, who are both serving their suspensions for their roles in last week’s brawl with the Charlotte Hornets. This will be the final game of Duren’s two-game suspension, so he will be available to return for Detroit’s next game against the Chicago Bulls on Saturday. Stewart, however, still has five more games to go after he was suspended for seven games, the worst punishment from the scuffle because he left the bench and entered the floor to pursue Miles Bridges.

On the other side, the Knicks will have everyone from their 15-man roster available except for OG Anunoby who has been dealing with an avulsion in his right toenail. He’s listed as probable as of the NBA’s latest injury report.

New York also made an addition right before All-Star weekend by signing Jeremy Sochan, who was waived by the San Antonio Spurs. He’s available to make his Knicks debut.

Here’s what you need to know about Thursday night’s game between the Knicks and Pistons:

Knicks vs. Pistons injury report

(Updated 5:00 p.m. ET)

Knicks: OG Anunoby (right toenail avulsion; probable), Miles McBride (pelvic, core muscle surgery; out), Pacome Dadiet (G League assignment; questionable), Trey Jemison III (G League – two-way; questionable), Dillon Jones (G League – two-way; questionable), Kevin McCullar Jr. (G League – two-way; questionable)

Pistons: Jalen Duren (league suspension; out), Isaiah Stewart (league suspension; out), Bobi Klintman (G League assignment; out), Wendell Moore Jr. (G League – two-way; out)

How to watch Pistons vs. Knicks: TV channel, live stream

Start time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Location: Madison Square Garden (New York)
TV Channel: MSG Networks
Live stream: Amazon Prime

Pistons vs. Knicks odds

Spread: Knicks by 4.5 (-110)
Over/Under: 222.5 (O/U -110)
Moneyline: Knicks -185

Knicks next five games

Feb. 21 vs. Houston Rockets
Feb. 22 at Chicago Bulls
Feb. 24 at Cleveland Cavaliers
Feb. 27 at Milwaukee Bucks
March 1 vs. San Antonio Spurs

Pistons next five games

Feb. 21 at Chicago Bulls
Feb. 23 vs. San Antonio Spurs
Feb. 25 vs. Oklahoma City Thunder
Feb. 27 vs. Cleveland Cavaliers
March 1 at Orlando Magic

MILAN — Millions of people will watch Alysa Liu when the 20-year-old U.S. figure skater competes for a medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Can that be any more unnerving than being watched by Chinese spies?

In 2022, the U.S. Justice Department charged five men with acting on behalf of the Chinese government and targeting Chinese dissidents in the United States. The dissidents included Liu’s father, Arthur, who organized pro-Democracy protests in China before fleeing the country in 1989. And, according to her father, Alysa Liu was targeted too.

‘In a weird way, I was like, ‘Am I in some prank show? Is this world real?’ Alysa Liu said in October while discussing the matter at a Team USA media event in New York.

A man who claimed to be a US. Olympic official called Arthur Liu three months before Alysa Liu competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, he told USA TODAY Sports, and asked for faxed copies of their passports. Arthur Liu refused.

‘I felt something fishy was going on,’ he told the Associated Press in 2022.

Prosecutors said Matthew Ziburis, one of the five men arrested as a result of the investigation, was hired to perform surveillance on the Liu family, according to PBS.

In the criminal complaint filed by the Department of Justice, Arthur Liu told USA TODAY Sports, he is listed as ‘Dissident 3’ and Alysa Liu is listed as ‘family member.’ The Department of Justice did not respond to a USA Today Sports’ request for information.

Alysa Liu finished sixth at the 2022 Beijing Games and is in third place at the Milano Cortina Winter Games headed into the long program Thursday, Feb. 19, with her father’s history part of her own history.

‘I mean, it made sense to me from everything my dad did,’ Alysa Liu said in October of the Chinese spies.

Outrage after a massacre

Arthur said he’ll be traveling to the 2026 Winter Olympics with a group of 26 relatives and friends. There was a time where the only objective of travel was to maintain his safety.

In emails sent to USA TODAY Sports, Arthur described activities he said put him in danger.

In July 1989, Arthur said, he learned he was on a ‘most wanted’ list in Guangzhou while attending the Zhongshan University. He had organized a half dozen demonstrations and hunger strikes to promote democracy, freedom and the rule of law in coordination with the students’ protests in Beijing.

The flashpoint was Tiananmen Square, where hundreds of students and residents in Beijing were killed by the military.

‘I was outraged!’ Arthur wrote. ‘How could the People’s Liberation Army use its force against its own students and residents of Beijing? I organized another protest.’

He was summoned to report to the Office of Chinese Communist Party Youth League, Arthur wrote.

‘The secretary and his colleague interrogated me several times,’ he wrote. ‘I told them that the students are all patriotic and wanted the best for China.

‘I refused to provide them any more names of students who had participated in the organization of the demonstrations. … I was going to take full responsibility for everything that had happened since at one time I was elected the President of the Guangzhou Autonomous Student Union of Universities. 

“Going to prison for me was a matter of time.’

Arthur said he was being followed by police and thought jail was inevitable. But one night, he wrote, a man he knew took him to a small harbor.

Bright lights, paradise on earth

It was 9 p.m. on a summer night in 1989, Arthur Liu wrote, when the boat arrived at a harbor in China.

The man who took Liu to the harbor thought he should leave the country, Liu wrote. Escaping to Hong Kong from China was criminally punishable up to three years in prison or a labor camp, according to Liu.

‘We got on the boat and he took off so quick that the four of us had to hold on to the boat so tight that a muscle on my chest area was painfully torn,’ he wrote. ‘The boat was skimming on top of the ocean leaving huge waves behind us.

‘I was told that this boat is faster than the boats the military and border (patrol) used to chase smugglers so that they won’t be caught. The smuggling business was booming between mainland China and Hong Kong in that era. Goods and people!’

To avoid the military, Arthur Liu wrote, the boat first headed into the ocean, public sea, and then turned toward Hong Kong. About two hours later, according to Liu, the boat pulled near the shore.

‘The colorful bright lights on thousands of giant tall buildings were eye blinding,’ he wrote. ‘So many of them! So grand in scale! I felt I had arrived in paradise on earth.

‘We got off the boat and stepped onto the land of freedom!’

Arthur eventually left Hong Kong and settled in northern California, where he earned a law degree from Hastings College, started his own law firm and his own family.

He is a single father of five children, the eldest being Alysa, who said over the years she’s continued to learned about her father’s personal history — in some cases from family members.

‘And then my best friend’s parents, they knew about it,’ she said. ‘So they would tell my best friend the stories and my best friend would report it back to me and be like, ‘Did you know this?’ And I’d be like, ‘What?”

In October, prompted by a reporter, Alysa Liu mused about what being spied on would look like as a movie.

‘They got to make me look like a super cool hero or something,’ she said. ‘I can’t just be the kid that got spied on and did nothing about it.

‘But honestly, I would just have the main focus be my dad’s story because his story is so cool.’

She cited her father’s persistence. “And he’s brave too,’ she added.

But now the story is focused on Alysa, who started skating at age 5.

‘She just took off on the ice,’ Arthur Liu said. “She was just chasing adults, hockey players, and making friends and with adults and girls of her own age, boys of her own age. She was just having so much fun on the ice.’

She’ll be competing at the Olympics with dark hair dyed with platinum stripes.

‘She’s a really creative young lady and full of ideas and imagination,’ Arthur Liu said. ‘I don’t know where that came from. I’m very pragmatic. I’m down to earth. I’m just step-by-step things and stuff like that.

‘But she’s very creative. She loves photography and some of her pictures, photos, I saw some of them, they are really creative. They were really beautiful and they really catch the moment.’

Now, on the world’s stage, the moment belongs to both of them.