Team USA revealed its Ski & Snowboard roster for the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games on Thursday.
Three-time Olympian and two-time gold medalist Jamie Anderson was not on the 97-person listing. Leading figures embrace Olympic veterans Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin, and Chloe Kim. Vonn, who received gold within the downhill on the 2010 Winter Olympics, returned in to the game in 2024 after retirement and a partial knee substitute.
Shiffrin, probably the most embellished Alpine skier, will compete in her fourth Olympics. Kim, a three-time Olympian, goals to be the primary snowboarder to win a 3rd straight gold on the Milano Cortina Games.
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“In many ways, making this team is even harder than the Olympics themselves,” snowboard program director Rick Bower explained in a statement. “The depth of our field is incredible, and selection truly came down to the wire.”
On the lads’s facet, the U.S. crew will likely be led by three-time Olympian and 2018 slopestyle gold medalist Red Gerard, snowboard cross racer Nick Baumgartner, and 17-year-old Alessandro Barbieri, seen as a medal contender in halfpipe.
Four-time Olympian Nick Goepper will head the freeski halfpipe squad, which additionally consists of two-time Olympic medalist Alex Ferreira, Birk Irving, and first-time Olympian Hunter Hess. Irving’s sister, Svea Irving, certified for the ladies’s freeski halfpipe. Defending Olympic freeski slopestyle champ Alex Hall can be set to compete in his third Olympics.
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Olympic champion and three-time cross-country snowboarding medalist Jesse Diggins will take part in her fourth and remaining Olympics. Chris Lillis is returning for the aerials team- he took gold on the 2022 Games.
At the 2022 Beijing Games, skiers and snowboarders earned 15 of the 25 medals for Team USA. For the 2026 Winter Olympics, they’ll make up practically half of all of the athletes representing the U.S.