The 2026 Winter Olympics are bringing thousands of athletes from around the world together for more than two weeks of competition — and the Games are a gold mine for statistics.

At Milano Cortina, Austria and Switzerland will be sending 11 skiers, Italy 10, and France? Just seven. No wonder several of the country’s best skiers didn’t make the initial list.

Team USA comes into the Milan Cortina Games with a handful of gold-medal hopefuls in both individual and team events.

MILAN, Italy (AP) — Annika Malacinski remembers the moment the door to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics was slammed shut. On a flight from Munich to Denver, she bought airplane Wi-Fi to join a conference call with the International Olympic Committee,

For many decades, Olympic Games included "demonstration sports." Some, like curling, became part of the permanent roster. But others, like skijoring, didn't stick around.

Isabeau Levito was born in Philly and now lives in Mount Holly, N.J. She won gold in the singles of the 2022 World Junior Championships at age 14, followed by gold in the U.S. Championships a year later. Now 18 years old, this is Levito’s first Olympic Games.

The country that has steadily been asserting mastery over the halfpipe took that show to the Winter Olympics big air contest Saturday night, where Kira Kimura and Ryoma Kimata flew and stomped their way to a 1-2 finish to put their country on the top of the sport’s highest flying event.