fifth February 2026
It’s the spotlight of aggressive world snowsport and Staff GB has some reasonable medal probabilities on snow. PlanetSKI appears forward to The Video games. UPDATED
“The Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Video games are prepared for competitors,” introduced the Worldwide Olympic Committe.
It stated that every one venues in addition to the important thing timing techniques are absolutely operational.
The Opening Ceremony takes place on Friday night.
The present will mix musical performances by artists together with Mariah Carey, Laura Pausini and Andrea Bocelli, with a staging idea designed to increase past the stadium itself.
The lighting of two cauldrons —one at Milan’s Arco della Tempo and the opposite in Cortina d’Ampezzo’s Piazza Dibona— will embody the will to multiply conventional rituals with a view to mirror the Video games’ multi-hub nature.
Organisers describe the present as “an prolonged invitation, a shared embrace, celebrating Italian uniqueness and made in Italy.”
Picture c/o Milan-Cortina 2026
Occasions are unfold between Milan, because the city and ceremonial core, and the Alpine areas of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Valtellina, Val di Fiemme and Livigno, extending throughout Lombardy and Veneto and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano.
Round 2,900 athletes can be competing in 16 disciplines for 116 gold medals.
There are extra ladies’s occasions than ever earlier than at a Winter Video games.
Ladies are competing in additional than half of all occasions.
There may be the introduction of latest ladies’s and blended competitions, and the equalisation of distances for women and men in cross-country snowboarding.
Ski mountaineering —a self-discipline combining ascents, descents and excessive endurance— makes its Olympic debut.
Snowboarding in Italy. Picture © PlanetSKI
UK Sport believes Staff GB might win between 4 and eight medals at The Video games.
The workforce got here house from the Beijing 2022 Video games with simply two medals.
GB’s finest medal haul at a Winter Video games is 5, achieved at Sochi 2014 and matched in Pyeongchang 4 years later.
Staff GB is taking 20 snowsport athletes to Milan-Cortina with 4 world class athletes within the ranks.
Mia Brookes, Charlotte Bankes, Zoe Atkin, & Kirsty Muir are medal contenders.
Shortly after being formally informed of her place on the Olympic workforce Mia Brookes received gold on the X-Video games:
Charlotte Bankes took victory in her final World Cup snowboard cross occasion:
“Being named to Staff GB for Milan Cortina 2026 is a proud and motivating second for me,” stated Zoe Atkin.
“It displays the onerous work and dedication that goes into each day of coaching, and it offers me much more drive as I put together to compete on the Olympic stage.”
She celebrated place on Staff GB with a gold on the X Video games – a second gold for GB after Mia Brooke’s earlier win.
Zoe is not any stranger to the World Cup podium this season.
She is competing at a second Olympic Video games and aiming to emulate her sister, Izzy, who received bronze at PyeongChang in 2018 in freeski slopestyle.
Kirsty Muir has had a great season thus far this season that has seen the 21-year-old Scot declare two World Cup high spots in each ladies’s freeski slopestyle and large air.
She additionally received a gold on the X Video games:
The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics begin on Friday sixth February and finish on Sunday twenty second February.
Listed here are the snowsport athletes representing Nice Britain:
Park & Pipe
Zoe Atkin – Freeski HalfpipeGus Kenworthy – Freeski HalfpipeLiam Richards – Freeski HalfpipeChris McCormick – Freeski Slopestyle and Huge AirKirsty Muir – Freeski Slopestyle and Huge AirMia Brookes – Snowboard Slopestyle and Huge AirMaisie Hill – Snowboard Slopestyle and Huge AirTxema Mazet-Brown – Snowboard Slopestyle and Huge Air
Alpine Snowboarding
Billy Main – SlalomDave Ryding – SlalomLaurie Taylor – Slalom
Cross-Nation
James ClugnetJoe DaviesAndrew MusgraveAnna Pryce
Snowboard Cross
Charlotte Bankes – Particular person and teamHuw Nightingale – Particular person and workforce
Ski Cross
Moguls
Makayla Gerken SchofieldMateo Jeannesson
“It’s an actual honour to be chosen to characterize Staff GB once more,” stated the alpine ski favorite, Dave Ryding.
“I’m trying ahead to acting on the largest stage in entrance of a central European crowd for the primary time in my Olympic profession and I can’t wait to get on the market and into the motion.
“I’ve by no means taken without any consideration what it means to characterize my nation and to have the possibility to compete for Nice Britain at an Olympic Video games for the fifth time is one thing I might solely have dreamed of once I went to my first Video games again in 2010.”
Dave is competing in his final Winter Olympics and a few of the loudest British cheers can be for ‘The Rocket’.
Dave Ryding in Schladming. Picture © PlanetSKI
Like Dave, Andrew Musgrave will compete at his fifth Olympics as he participates within the cross-country.
“Over the previous 4 years, our skiers and snowboarders have proven they’re able to mixing it with the perfect on this planet, and the squad that’s heading out for these Video games is an actual reflection of the expertise, grit, and can to win that makes British sport so particular,” stated the GB Snowsport chief govt, Vicky Gosling.
The Milan-Cortina Olympics would be the largest Winter Video games to be staged within the occasion’s historical past.
There can be 2,900 athletes from over 90 Nationwide Olympic Committees.
It would even be the largest in geographic phrases – venues are unfold out throughout an space of over 22,000 km².
The BBC will broadcast greater than 450 hours of dwell motion from the Video games.
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