Competitions at the Winter Olympics are defined by extremes: extreme air, extreme speed and extreme temperatures. On sliding tracks, athletes in luge, bobsleigh and skeleton break highway speed limits ...

A perfect recipe of circumstances makes downhill skiing doable — though still quite remarkable — for Vonn, even with a torn ...

The sports featured at the Winter Olympics defy gravity and physics. Many competitors move at breakneck speeds down steep, snowy inclines or careen across icy surfaces in a bid to set world records ...

For Breezy Johnson, the road to an Olympic gold medal was similar to the winning downhill run she turned in Sunday: It was ...

While friction isn’t the only influence on the slopes, it is definitely something at the top of a skier’s mind—especially when they’re staring down their race from the top of a very large hill.

The biggest names in Alpine skiing are set to hit the slopes at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina. Mikaela Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn and Ryan Cochran-Siegle are so ...

The sprint is a condensed, explosive version of long-format ski mountaineering races. It features core elements of the sport ...

Here's what's new at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, from the debut of ski mountaineering to new events in Alpine ...