twenty fourth January 2026
GB Snowsport has introduced the athletes heading out to Italy to finish in The Video games, that begin on February sixth. NEW
There are not any nice surprises as Staff GB takes twenty snowsport athletes to the 2026 Winter Video games – some practical prospects of medals.
Park & Pipe:
Zoe Atkin – Freeski HalfpipeGus Kenworthy – Freeski HalfpipeLiam Richards – Freeski HalfpipeChris McCormick – Freeski Slopestyle and Large AirKirsty Muir – Freeski Slopestyle and Large AirMia Brookes – Snowboard Slopestyle and Large AirMaisie Hill – Snowboard Slopestyle and Large AirTxema Mazet-Brown – Snowboard Slopestyle and Large 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 staff
Ski Cross:
Moguls:
Makayla Gerken SchofieldMateo Jeannesson
Some, together with Mia Brookes, Charlotte Bankes, Zoe Atkin, & Kirsty Muir are medal contenders.
Shortly after being formally informed of her place on the Olympic staff on Friday Mia Brookes received gold on the X-Video games:
Charlotte Bankes took victory within the newest 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 day-after-day of coaching, and it provides me much more drive as I put together to compete on the Olympic stage.”
She is competing at a second Olympic Video games and aiming to emulate her sister, Izzy, who received bronze at PyeongChag in 2018 in freeski slopestyle.
Kirsty Muir has had an excellent season to date 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.
“It’s an actual honour to be chosen to signify Staff GB once more,” stated the alpine ski favorite, Dave Ryding.
“I’m trying ahead to acting on the most important 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 with no consideration what it means to signify 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 may solely have dreamed of after I went to my first Video games again in 2010.”
Dave is competing in his final Winter Olympics and among the loudest British cheers will likely be for ‘The Rocket’.
Dave Ryding in Schladming. Picture © PlanetSKI
The Worldwide Olympic Committee President, Kirsty Coventry, has expressed her anticipation for the Winter Olympics.
“A whole lot of the staff are already in Milano Cortina.,” stated Kirsty Coventry.
“Myself and the staff, will likely be arriving on Monday. So, we’re trying ahead to being on the bottom, however actually very enthusiastic about every thing that has occurred.”
The Milan-Cortina Olympics would be the largest Winter Video games to be staged within the occasion’s historical past.
There will likely be 2,900 athletes from over 90 Nationwide Olympic Committees anticipated.
It is going to even be the most important in geographic phrases – venues are unfold out throughout an space of over 22,000 km².
This has attracted some criticism type an environmental and transport/organisational perspective.
Requested by journalist whether or not she had talked to United States counterpart Donald Trump since she was elected chief of the IOC near a yr in the past Coventry stated they’d not engaged in ‘formal communication’ but.
The US vice-president JD Vance will likely be representing the USA on the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The IOC chief said that she is “trying ahead to assembly with JD Vance and his staff” and steered away from relaying any type of disappointment or frustration with the current actions and pronouncements of the Trump administration.
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