US EditionVonn, Shiffrin, Odermatt chase gold in Alpine skiing at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
The Milan-Cortina 2026 Alpine skiing program features five events, including a new team combined, with top athletes Shiffrin, Vonn, and Odermatt competing for Olympic gold.
- Competition begins Feb. 4 at the Milan‑Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, with Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn raising U.S. medal hopes .
- The program includes five events for both genders, and the team combined will make its Olympic debut with two-person teams combining downhill and slalom runs.
- Men's races are set for Bormio while women's run in Cortina d'Ampezzo, with athletes competing in three other mountain clusters and an athletes' village in Cortina housing more than 350 mobile homes.
- Shiffrin and Vonn offer complementary strengths that could shape team strategy; Shiffrin excels in slalom and giant slalom while Vonn excels in downhill and super‑G, raising U.S. medal hopes.
- Alpine skiing traces back to its 1936 Olympic debut in Garmisch‑Partenkirchen, with Jean‑Claude Killy's 1968 Grenoble sweep and Alberto Tomba's five medals framing its legacy.
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Vonn, Shiffrin, Odermatt chase gold in Alpine skiing at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing has been a part of the Winter Olympics since 1936. The upcoming games in Italy feature five events for both men and women: downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and the debut of the team combined event.
Alpine skiing: Vonn and Shiffrin at the top, Odermatt at the highest speed After more than five years of retirement and a knee replaced by a titanium prosthesis, Lindsey Vonn regained the high level last winter and, at 41, hopes to shine one last time for her fifth Olympic Games, 24 years after her ...
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