#2026-winter-olympics

#2026-winter-olympics

The air is sharp. The stakes are higher. The world is watching. In just 60 seconds, it is you versus the frostbitten glory of the 2026 Winter Olympics. From gravity-defying jumps to blink-and-you-miss-it sprints on ice, these sports demand nerves of steel. But can you name them before the clock runs out, or will you wipe out under pressure? Lace up. It is time to find out.

Mt. Buller in the state of Victoria is upping the stakes for Australians at the 2026 winter Olympics with a special offer. The resort announced that every time an Australian wins a medal at the games, a limited number of $100 adult 1-day-any-day midweek lift passes will be released to celebrate. Whether the medal is gold, silver, or bronze, the podium finish will release these discounted tickets during a short window.

The Washington Capitals' number-one netminder has been tabbed to start for Team Canada in their second game at the 2026 Winter Olympics against Switzerland. Former Caps goalie Darcy Kuemper will back Thompson up. Thompson gets the nod after he backed up Jordan Binnington in Canada's 5-0 win over Czechia on Thursday. Binnington made 26 saves in the shutout victory, rewarding head coach Jon Cooper for his predetermined faith in the St. Louis Blues backstop.

"I don't feel ideal, but hockey is a tough sport," Fehervary told STV's Patrik Mitas, as translated via Google Translate. "I don't think it's fair, especially when it's on your head. I'm glad I finished the game."

In total, the United States has 232 athletes competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. This is great news for me because, as a queer man, I love two things: 1. watching people live out their dreams, and 2. hot men. So, I went through the entire roster to find some of the hottest men who are representing Team USA.

The 2026 Winter Olympics are in full swing, so everyone's FYP is popping off with all things snow sports. And I don't know about you, but as someone who doesn't usually watch sports, Heated Rivalry had me questioning if I'm secretly a massive hockey fan. That show alone convinced me to scroll through socials for the best Olympic moments, posts, and memes.

That aura of 20th-century glamour was immortalized by Slim Aarons. The legendary American photographer, known for chronicling the jet set at play, counted Cortina among his favorite haunts-alongside Santa Barbara and the Bahamas. Over the course of two decades, he returned repeatedly to the Dolomites, capturing artists, actors, and European aristocrats at ease in the town's luxurious chalets. What follows is a look back at some of his most iconic images, printed in color to evoke Cortina's chic ski culture of the 1970s.

From Milan to Cortina and beyond, the star of the first Olympic weekend in Italy was Italy. The electric celebrations started Saturday in Bormio, close to the Swiss border, with a silver and bronze in the men's downhill. They echoed a few hours later in Milan, where Francesca Lollobrigida set an Olympic record in women's 3000m speed skating for the host country's first gold.

Nike unveiled the Team USA collection on January 28, and it's been having a moment on social media as athletes don the gear at the games. Between January 30 and the February 6 opening ceremony in Milan, conversations on X mentioning ACG and the Olympics increased by 273%, data analytics firm PeakMetrics told Business Insider. Google searches for "Nike ACG" also spiked during the first week of February, then hit a new peak this week with the Olympic Games underway, according to Google Trends.

I was young and crazy and was skiing somewhere I shouldn't have been in Lebanon and I fell 14 meters,

At the Olympics, the format sees the top 10 athletes advance straight to the final, while the remaining 20 athletes have another chance to qualify in the second qualification round. The course at Livigno, Italy, saw a packed crowd turn out to cheer on the 60 mogul athletes representing their respective countries. Americans and Australians were out in great numbers-not surprising considering the countries are have sent 15 athletes or 25% of the field between the two nations to the moguls competition.

Handle with care. That's the message from gold medalist Breezy Johnson at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics after she and other athletes found their medals broke within hours. United States' Breezy Johnson shows her gold medal in the alpine ski women's downhill race, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) Team USA's Amber Glenn celebrates with her gold medal after the figure skating team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Hess was asked in a press conference on Wednesday what it was like to represent the US in the Olympics given the current situation in the country, which has included ICE raids in Minnesota and a number of geopolitical crises. Hess said representing the US at the 2026 Winter Olympics brought up mixed emotions and that it was a little hard.

Aicher told German broadcaster ZDF that the course had been aggressive over every jump, and that she had initially not been able to work out how good her performance had been. "It just felt absolutely wild. Every jump kind of tore me apart," she said. "To be honest, I didn't think it would work out after the run." After learning about the medal, Aicher at first expressed frustration at narrowly missing gold before realizing the scale of her achievement.

There are few sports as evocatively named as the snowboard event known as Big Air. It's big. It's in the air. High, high in the air. On Saturday, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Kira Kimura of Japan won the men's Big Air competition at the Livigno Snow Park in Valtellina, Italy. His best run was his third, a switch backside 1980 weddle five and a half full horizontal rotations.

A lot of times, athletes are hesitant to talk about political views and how we feel about things. I feel heartbroken about what's happening in the United States, Lillis said. I'm pretty sure you're referencing ICE and some of the protests and things like that. I think that as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody's rights and making sure that we're treating our citizens as well as anybody, with love and respect.

The period between the 2022 Olympics and the 2026 Olympics might have been some of the best years yet for the Japanese women's hockey team. In 2022, the team secured a fifth-place finish at the IIHF Women's World Championship. Three years later, Japan would win gold at both the Asian Winter Games and the IIHF Asian Championship. And just recently, the Japanese women's hockey team won gold at the second edition of the IIHF Asian Championship.