Mikaela Shiffrin seeks her first Olympic gold medal since 2018. Michal Cizek / The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Mikaela Shiffrin arrives at the 2026 Winter Olympics as her sport’s decade-long statistical outlier and standard-bearer.

Mariah Carey took center stage to help kick off the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony at 100-year-old San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy.

The opening weekend of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics had it all, from the Opening Ceremony to some genuinely unforgettable highs and lows. On February 8, time stood still as 41-year-old Lindsey Vonn saw her dreams of another Olympic gold in downhill skiing go up in a cloud of snow as a harrowing crash required the athlete to be airlifted off a mountain for the second time in a little over a week.

Mikaela Shiffrin extended her Olympic slump with a fourth-place finish in the new team combined event after partner Breezy Johnson led the opening downhill leg. Shiffrin is the most successful

The Winter Olympics are back, baby, and not a moment too soon. Four years after a turn in Beijing, the Games made their grand return to Italy for 2026, with hosting duties split between the city of Milan and the mountainous region of Cortina d'Ampezzo.