#winter-olympics-2026

#winter-olympics-2026

Watch out, biathlon! Eat my shorts, big air! Get bent, Nordic combined! There's a new skiing-centric Winter Olympics sport in town, and it's awesomely outrageous in ways that you old-timers just can't match. So you think downhill skiing is where it's at? OK, boomer. What about a sport that features downhill skiing and uphill skiing? That's right: Prepare to get rizzed up by the lit new Olympic sport known as ski mountaineering-but the cool kids just call it skimo. Skimo! Skimo! Skimo!

Used in the team pursuit speed skating, the 'tush push' involves pushing a teammate by their behind instead of pulling them along from the front.

I cannot tell any trick that anyone on skis or a snowboard does from any other trick that anyone else does; I have to take Johnny Weir's word for what is an axel vs. what is a salchow; and watching ski jumping is like looking at a painting. For one, he's up there, while his competitors are back there, but more relevant to our purposes, he can pound out the pace on skis in a way that nobody else can.

VAL DI FIEMME, Italy - Vermont cross-country ski racer Ben Ogden pulled off a feat today at the Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium in Val di Fiemme, Italy, that no men's U.S. skier has accomplished since 1976 ascending a podium at a Winter Olympics. Ogden, 25, won silver, finishing behind Johannes Klaebo of Norway. Oskar Vike of Norway finished in third place, claiming bronze.

Wright said he trusts his fitness and training as he heads to the Games, where the pressure will be on him to perform. I think having success in the past just gives me confidence because I've already done more than I thought I could do in this sport, so the way I see it anything extra is just cream, he told The Associated Press.

While we're more accustomed to heading to Milan with fashion and design at the forefront, early 2026 is bringing something new to the city: the Winter Olympics. Come February, the northern Italian metropolis will share the limelight with Cortina for the 25th Winter Games, with the Paralympics following in March. Milan will host ice sports, including figure skating and short track speed skating, at the Unipol Forum di Assago; speed skating at the Fiera Milano Rho Exhibition Center;

Olympians are extremely disciplined when it comes to training for their respective sports - it comes with the territory of being an elite athlete with the hopes of landing on the podium. The training's not done quite yet, though, as the stars gearing up for the 2026 Winter Olympics taking place in Milan and Cortina, prepare to take the global stage.