The Milano Cortina Winter Olympics are the most geographically spread out Winter Games in history, unfolding across 8,500 square miles of Northern Italy and the Dolomites. Rather than concentrating in a single host city, the competitions weave through alpine valleys, lakeside towns, the urban heartbeats of Verona and Milan, and some of the most breathtaking and iconic ski and snowboard terrains in the world. The 15 official Olympic venues are scattered across seven clusters. Instead of one Olympic Village, there are six.
Jonathan Van Ness (he/they) is a beauty expert, the founder of , host of the podcast Getting Better With Jonathan Van Ness, a co-host of Queer Eye (the 10th and final season dropped on Netflix last month), and currently on tour with Hot and Heated, a comedy show. Below, Van Ness - a figure skating superfan - weighs in on which athletes to pay attention to at the Milano-Cortina Olympic Games.
Mikaela Shiffrin completed another dominant night in Flachau on Tuesday, winning a World Cup slalom to extend her season-long stranglehold on the discipline while leading an American one-two finish with teammate Paula Moltzan. Shiffrin followed up her fastest opening run with a composed second run to finish 0.41sec clear of Moltzan, claiming her sixth victory in seven slalom races this season.