"It's hard for the Winter Olympic Games to compete with the Summer Games. Dozens of skiing and skating variations can't really compare to the sheer variety of the summer events, even if it's incredibly rad to send athletes down an ice tube at seventy miles per hour and call the sport "Skeleton." But aside from the lows of the 2026 Olympics in Milano Cortina so far-including that awkwardly segmented opening ceremony and Lindsey Vonn's terrifying fall-we've seen some amazing wins as well."
"It's crazy that US figure skater Ilia Malinin not only messed up during the Team competition and still won, but that the 21-year-old is graded on such a higher scale of difficulty than the rest of his competitors that it didn't even matter. He's the only figure skater in the world that can hit a quad-axel. And though he didn't pull one out in the Team competition, his time on the ice in Milan-Cortina is just getting started."
Winter Olympic Games face difficulty matching the variety of Summer Games, despite thrilling events like skeleton and high-speed downhill runs. The Milano-Cortina 2026 Games have had awkwardly segmented opening ceremonies and a frightening crash by Lindsey Vonn. Breezy Johnson won Team USA's first gold in the downhill, finishing in one minute and thirty-six seconds and expressing honor at having her name alongside Vonn. Ilia Malinin delivered a dominant figure-skating performance despite a mistake in the team competition and remains the only skater capable of a quad-axel. A viral curling baby and other controversies have kept attention focused during the first week.
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