Team USA will be represented in all three major Nordic ski disciplines at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games. Across the cross country, Nordic combined, and ski jumping disciplines, the USA has 20+ of the country's most talented athletes.
It's February, and you know what that means: the return of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort's annual Kings & Queens of Corbet's freeride competition! We've cut through the noise and compiled everything you need to know before the event gets underway next week.
A warm ridge holds through Friday, February 6, then a wetter pattern rolls in this weekend with a sharp west-to-east push of moisture and wind. The Pacific Northwest gets the first hit, and the best results stay centered on higher terrain where snow levels can keep up.
Ski Mountaineering, known as skimo, is a new sport at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. The ski discipline consists of sprint races in the men's and women's disciplines, as well as a longer-distance mixed-gender team relay.
Lindsey Vonn, the 41-year-old American skiing legend, achieved a remarkable milestone on Friday, completing a successful downhill training run on Italy’s Olympia delle Tofane slope in Cortina d’Ampezzo — just one week after tearing her ACL during a World Cup event in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
Mikaela Shiffrin will compete in her fourth Winter Olympics in February as she looks to add to her Olympic medal count. The Team USA skier is expected to race in multiple events at Milano Cortina 2026, including the women’s slalom, women’s giant slalom and the women’s team combined slalom.
Team USA Alpine Skiing. These are the American ski racers everyone knows, the names dominating the news in and out of the ski industry. Ski racers garner some of the highest celebrity and renown in the sport, and the Olympic field is stacked with international powerhouses like Marco Odermatt and Lara Colturi on the docket.
Team USA Freeski has quite the talented roster between halfpipe, slopestyle, big air, aerials, and moguls. Across the disciplines, there are already two Olympic gold medals and a total of eight medals from previous years, not to mention X Games and World Championship medals.
Is this the worst winter ever? For some skiers in Oregon, it just might be. POWDER reported earlier this week that two Oregon ski areas, Mt. Hood Ski Bowl and Mt.
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Lindsey Vonn opened a window into her workout regime on Thursday as the 41-year-old U.S. Alpine ski great prepares to take on the Milano Cortina Olympic downhill with a severely damaged knee.