Mikaela Shiffrin signed up for this. So did Ilia Malinin, Scotty James and all the rest. Nobody is forced to come to the Olympics. The athletes in Milan and Cortina dreamed about these two weeks long before the flames were lit in northern Italy.
Is dog sledding an Olympic sport? Milan 2026 Winter Games could use another event originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Winter Olympics is missing something: dogs. Everything is made better with dogs, right? Sledding certainly is, particularly in the famed Iditarod race.
Team USA figure skating sensation Ilia Malinin entered Friday as an overwhelming favorite to take home gold in the men’s free skate at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned.
The Winter Olympics bring sports we barely see outside of these few weeks. Many of them look exciting. Some of them look like a bad idea for normal people. A lot of these events mix speed, ice, height,
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen makes history for Brazil by clinching his nation's first Winter Olympic medal with gold in the giant slalom.