The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina are set to begin on Feb. 6, and will run until Feb. 22. The Winter Paralympic Games will then begin on March 6 and will run until March 15. Italy will be hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics for the third time, with Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo as the official hosts of the event.

Competing at the highest level and representing your country is a dream for any athlete. It is the moment years of training, sacrifice, and belief are meant to lead to.

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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — When USA Bobsled and Skeleton unveils its Olympic rosters, the most likely scenario is that either eight or nine women will wind up competing for that federation on the ice at the Milan Cortina Winter Games. Most of those sliders will almost certainly be women of color.

Gianluca Lorenzi has received death threats and grappled with economic controversies in the midst of Olympic planning.

The Americans picked up 25 medals in 2022, a two-medal increase from their total at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Long-time medal contenders Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn will contend in the alpine skiing events.

With the Earth warming at a record rate, the list of locales that could reliably host a Winter Games will shrink in the coming years, researchers say.

The Olympic snowboarder famously cut his long red hair in December 2012 and has rocked a shorter style in the decade-plus that followed

Last month, 24-year-old Maxime Germain made the team for the event that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

Switzerland’s federal government says it's ready to commit $250 million toward the Alpine nation organizing the 2038 Olympics and Paralympics.