2026 Winter Olympics

Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry meets the media in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

IOC president Kirsty Coventry says ICE and Epstein files are ‘sad’ distractions from Winter Olympics

The United States is already dominating the narrative two years before the Los Angeles Olympics and five days before the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

Switzerland's Franjo von Allmen celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, men's World Cup downhill, in Crans Montana, Switzerland, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

Von Allmen hands Crans-Montana 2nd Swiss victory in 2 days in last World Cup race before Olympics

Shoppers look at official Olympics merchandise near a photo showing Chinese gold medalist Eileen Gu as the 2022 Winter Olympics nears its end, Feb. 19, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Freeskier Eileen Gu takes another wild ride to the Olympics, invites the world to tag along

Emily Sweeney of the United States waves after the women's sprint race at the Luge World Cup in Igls near Innsbruck, Austria, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

A luge love story: These Olympics have a lot of meaning for Emily and Dominik Fischnaller

A man crosses a road near to USA team signs, at the Olympic Village ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Athletes bring Milan Olympic Village to life, complete with Italian bidets and 4-story US banners

Olympic rings are displayed in the snow at the Stelvio Ski Center, venue for the alpine ski and ski mountaineering disciplines at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Bormio, Italy, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

All you need to know about the Milan Cortina Games

Casey Wasserman, LA28 chairperson and president, takes questions from the media during a news conference in Los Angeles, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

New Epstein files include emails between LA Olympics leader Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell

The latest collection of government files released on Jeffrey Epstein include emails from 2003 between Casey Wasserman, the head of the Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, and Epstein’s one-time partner, Ghislaine Maxwell.

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United States' Lindsey Vonn approaches the finish area after crashing, during an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill, in Crans Montana, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Lindsey Vonn sits out final race before Olympics but remains on track for Games after crash

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A traditional vintage trams travel on rails through a downtown street near to the Peace Arch, with a view of the Olympics cauldron in the background, ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Milan’s historic trams at night as the city gears up for the Winter Olympic Games, in photos

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Switzerland's Malorie Blanc celebrates on the podium after winning an alpine ski, women's World Cup Super G, in Crans Montana, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

Swiss skier Blanc gives Crans-Montana event home winner with Vonn sitting out day after crash

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IOC President Kirsty Coventry speaks to volunteers, ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (Daniele Mascolo/Pool Photo via AP)

Olympic program review opens path to relax Winter Games mandate for only sports on snow and ice

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Winter Olympics Venues

Winter Olympics Schedule

Winter Olympics - U.S. Hometown Heroes

Lindsey Vonn is airlifted after crashing in her final downhill race before 2026 Olympics

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Europe’s rising diversity is not reflected at the Winter Olympics. Culture plays a big role

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The forgotten WWII ‘mini-Olympics’ held in Cortina

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‘Heated Rivalry’ stars carry the 2026 Winter Olympics torch

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What training looks like for an Alpine ski racer

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Triplets pursue dream of representing Jamaica in ski racing at Winter Olympics

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This plastic slope surrounded by sheep produced Britain’s top skier

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An uninhabited Scottish isle is home to the golden granite used in Olympic curling stones

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AP reporters try on inflatable Team USA jackets for the Winter Olympics

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How do Olympic hopefuls feel 100 days out?

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Olympic Village for Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Games begins to come alive - AP Explains

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Janine Flock, of Austria, slides during the women's skeleton run 3 at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

What to know about skeleton at the Winter Olympics: Hurtling head first down an icy chute on a sled

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Athletes compete during the women's sprint race at the Ski Mountaineering World Cup event in Bormio, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)

A brand new Olympic sport, ski mountaineering, will debut at the Milan Cortina Games

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Japan's Ayumu Hirano competes during the men's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 11, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Ready for a trip to the park? Snowboarding set for its spotlight at the Winter Olympics

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Johannes Lamparter, of Austria, soars through the air during his trial jump of the nordic combined men's individual Gundersen LH/10 km competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Norway, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

What to know about Nordic combined and its Olympic future

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Canada's Mikael Kingsbury competes in the men's moguls at the Freestyle World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP, File)

From big air to moguls and slopestyle, what to know about freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics

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Quentin Fillon Maillet, of France, competes in the men's 4 X 7.5 km relay competition at the Biathlon World Cup in Hochfilzen, Austria, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

What to know about biathlon at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics

AC Milan's Christian Pulisic reacts after missing a chance to score during the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Genoa, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

AC Milan-Como and Inter-Juventus soccer games to be held during the Winter Olympics

FILE -Gold medal winner Ester Ledecka, of the Czech Republic, celebrates after the women's parallel giant slalom at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Ledecka going for glory again on snowboard and skis at the Milan Cortina Olympics

Madison Chock and Evan Bates skate during the free dance competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Netflix films Chock and Bates for a docuseries as US skaters prepare for Milan Cortina Olympics

Kristopher Horn/ Carsten Vissering of the USA in action during the Men's 2-Bob World Cup, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (Mayk Wendt/Keystone via AP)

Olympic bobsled, skeleton and luge athletes file appeals for spots at Milan Cortina Games

United States' Lindsey Vonn approaches the finish area after crashing, during an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill, in Crans Montana, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Lindsey Vonn’s injuries over 3 decades range from torn knees to a thumb sliced open on champagne

Australia's winter olympic athletes pose for photographers at the AIS European Training Centre in Gavirate, on the Varese lake, northern Italy, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Australian base in Italy gives athletes from Down Under a home edge at the Winter Olympics

A board bearing signatures of athletes, leaders and public figures, in support of the Olympic Truce is displayed inside the Athens Olympic Museum on Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Olympic organizers invoke an ancient pledge to call for the suspension of all wars

United States' Lindsey Vonn celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Cup Super G, in Tarvisio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Shiffrin, Vonn and other ski racers star in ESPN’s ‘On the Edge’ docuseries leading into Olympics

Laila Edwards, center, the first Black woman to suit up for Team USA women's Olympic hockey, poses for a photo with her parents, Charone Gray-Edwards, left, and Robert Edwards, right, in her childhood home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

NFL stars Travis and Jason Kelce help Laila Edwards’ family attend her Olympic debut

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, a U.S. Olympic gold medalist, speaks during a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new Olympic museum June 9, 2017, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

New SafeSport CEO Fitzgerald Mosley wants to fix things quickly, saying ‘it’s a calling’

Erin Jackson competes in the women's 500 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials for long track speed skating at the Pettit National Ice Center Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026 in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Erin Jackson does not want to be the only Black woman to win Winter Olympics individual gold

Fifth placed Elana Meyers Taylor and Azaria Hill of USA react after their second run of the two-woman Bobsleigh World Cup race in Sigulda, Latvia, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Oksana Dzadan, File)

A pre-Olympic treat for the US women’s bobsled and skeleton teams: They got their hair done

Yiming Su of China in action during the final run of the Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup at Laax Open, on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in Laax, Switzerland. (Andreas Becker/Keystone via AP)

One of snowboarding’s most valuable skills is also one of its most unappreciated

Second placed Jessie Diggins of United States celebrates on the podium after the women's 20km mass start classic skiing race, at the FIS Cross-Country World Cup at the Nordic Center Goms, in Geschinen, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

With history already made, Jessie Diggins opens her final Olympic chapter with momentum

FILE- United States forward Hilary Knight (21) and Canada forward Marie-Philip Poulin (29) battle during the second period of the gold medal game at women's world hockey championships in Brampton, Ontario, Sunday, April 16, 2023. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Captain America vs. Captain Clutch: Knight and Poulin face off for 5th and perhaps last Winter Games

Maxim Naumov skates during the "Making Team USA" performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Maxim Naumov heads to Olympics, hoping to honor his parents and the others killed in airline crash

Julia Pleshkova speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill, in Zauchensee, Austria, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Winter Olympics now set to have just 13 Russian athletes and 7 from Belarus competing

Minnesota Wild left wing Marcus Johansson (90) celebrates after scoring against the the Vegas Golden Knights during the first period of an NHL hockey game Monday, Dec. 29, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Sweden adds NHL veterans Marcus Johansson and Hampus Lindholm as Olympic injury replacements

Gold-medalist Josef Jennewein of Germany, center, silver-medalist Alberto Marcellin of Italy, left, and bronze-medalist Rudolf Cranz of Germany perform a fascist salute on the podium during the 1941 Alpine Ski World Ski Championships, in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. (Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia via AP)

Fascist salutes from the podium: Cortina’s forgotten ‘mini-Olympics’ during World War II

Katie Uhlaender, of the United States, slides during fourth run at the skeleton world championships, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Lake Placid, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

IOC doesn’t move on US request that Katie Uhlaender get an Olympic skeleton spot

Italy's Federica Brignone celebrates at the finish area of a women's World Cup giant slalom, in Kronplatz, Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Host Italy announces 196-member team for Milan Cortina Olympics, including Fontana and Brignone

Maryan Hashi poses with her snowboard at Vedbobacken in Vasteras, Sweden, Saturday Jan. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Steve Douglas)

Europe’s rising diversity is not reflected at the Winter Olympics. Culture plays a big role

United States' Lindsey Vonn celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Cup Super G, in Tarvisio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

US names 232-athlete roster for Milan Cortina Olympics, led by five-timers including Vonn, Humphries

Italy's Giovanni Franzoni celebrates on podium winning a men's alpine ski World Cup downhill, in Kitzbuehel, Austria, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Host Italy has new skiing star for Olympics and he’s gone from tragedy to triumph

Simon Ammann of Switzerland shows off his two Olympic gold medals after receiving his second gold medal for his performance in the K120 ski jump in Salt Lake City, on Feb. 13, 2002. (AP Photo/Tom Hanson, CP, FILE)

Switzerland leaves 44-year-old ski-jump great Simon Ammann off Winter Olympics team

Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, center, of Qatar, flashes two thumbs up when celebrating Mutaz Essa Barshim's gold medal in the men's high jump at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Oct. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Qatar influence grows in Olympic world as Sheikh Joaan elected to lead Asia’s OCA

Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen speeds down the course during an alpine ski, men's World Cup slalom event, in Val d'Isere, France, Sunday Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

A Brazilian skier at the Winter Olympics? Lucas Pinheiro Braathen could make history

Kao Miura of Japan, performs during the figure skating exhibition gala of the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Beijing, China, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Japan’s Kao Miura wins Four Continents figure skating championship in Olympic tuneup

Gold medalist Amber Glenn poses with a flag after the women's free skating competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

A safe space: How figure skating became a comfort zone for the LGBTQ+ community amid perilous times

Saudi Arabia postpones 2029 Asian Winter Games at futuristic NEOM project

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