Davide Cerato will play a major role in skiing and snowboarding events at the upcoming Olympics, but he won't be competing. The Italian snowmaking expert is responsible for perfecting several of the courses that will feature in the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games,

The Olympic Winter Games in Milan are scheduled to open on February 6, 2026.

Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova has been included in the Slovakia team for next month's Milan Cortina Games as she aims to make to a comeback from more than two years out with a knee injury.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jordan Stolz appreciates that people liken what he will be trying to do at the Milan Cortina Winter Games to Eric Heiden’s record five speedskating gold medals at Lake Placid in 1980.

For the first time, two cauldrons will be lit and extinguished simultaneously in two different locations for the Winter Olympics.

On the men’s side, the U.S. team will be led by three-time Olympian and 2018 slopestyle gold medalist Red Gerard, snowboard cross racer Nick Baumgartner, and 17-year-old Alessandro Barbieri, who's seen as a medal contender in halfpipe.