For the first time this season, the U.S. bobsled team will leave a World Cup without a medal after Kaysha Love narrowly missed out on the podium in the two-woman event in Lillehammer, Norway.

Love has had an electric run to open the 2025-26 World Cup season, finishing either first or second in each of the first-four races. However, the track in Lillehammer proved challenging for the American, who recorded a 14th-place finish in the monobob race. A day later, Love bounced back, finishing just two tenths of a second off the podium in fourth place alongside brake woman Jasmine Jones.

Kaillie Humphries, 2022 Olympic monobob champion, finished right behind Love in fifth place in the two-woman race, putting together another top-10 finish to go with her 7th-place result in the monobob. Elana Meyers Taylor made it a U.S. hat trick in the top 10, finishing ninth, after missing out in 12th in the monobob.

Once again, it was Laura Nolte of Germany taking the win paired with Deborah Levi, leading the way for a German podium sweep. Nolte has dominated the beginning of the season, finishing on the podium in all six races and just twice off the top step. The defending Olympic two-woman champion was over half a second clear of second place and once again is proving herself the woman to beat heading into Milan Cortina.

On the men's side, U.S. 4-man team Kristopher Horn, Carsten Vissering, Hunter Powell and Caleb Furnell had a strong run in the second 4-man race of the weekend to earn a 6th-place finish. It was a strong performance from the crew, who finished 15th a day prior.

With the action in Norway finished, the IBSF World Cup will head to Sigulda, Latvia for the next round. Competition will begin with the women's skeleton race at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, December 18.