A Trendy Information to the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics


After 4 lengthy years, the Winter Olympics are again, and already, we have borne witness to very large wins, heartbreaking disappointments, and the whole lot in between. The festivities kicked off six days in the past, on February 6, with the Opening Ceremony held at Milan‘s historic San Siro Stadium, one of many biggest sporting constructions on the earth. There, everybody from Mariah Carey to Andrea Bocelli carried out, setting the tone for the excellence to come back.

The next day, medals have been doled out on the males’s snowboard huge air last, the place China’s Su Yiming returned to defend his gold medal from 2022 and American newcomer Ollie Martin bought his first style of the Olympic occasion. (The latter competed with a damaged arm, ending up simply off the rostrum, and fellow first-time Olympian Kira Kimura from Japan took gold.) On the eighth, Lindsey Vonn, a legend on the earth of alpine snowboarding, competed in her first and largest occasion of the Video games, ladies’s downhill, a feat in and of itself after she ruptured her ACL simply days earlier than heading to Italy. Sadly, after an early crash, we’re unlikely to see Vonn compete in her different Olympic occasions, however her willpower will stay on as one of many greatest storylines of the Video games, to not point out all of sports activities in 2026. The times that adopted noticed medals handed out on the ladies’s and males’s freeski slopestyle last, champions topped on the curling blended doubles gold medal sport, and a podium determined in ice dance, the place the U.S. duo of Madison Chock and Evan Bates battled towards Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, in addition to France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron.