Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan, representing Team USA 2, won the bronze medal in the team combined at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on Tuesday. Team USA 1 of Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin, finished fourth. 

It was the first time the women's team combined had been competed at the Olympics, a race that combines one athlete running a downhill and another athlete doing a slalom, and Team USA brought heavy hitters in each of the four teams. In the downhill, Olympic downhill champion from just two days prior Breezy Johnson led the way again, taking first place. Jackie Wiles sat in fourth place.

The slalom was a tricky set by the Austrians, which resulted in quite a few DNFs, but Wiles' partner Moltzan powered down the course with ease to stick the team into second place. She met up with Wiles in the finish, and they played the waiting game while the next three teams came down. Wiles/Moltzan were bumped to third by Austria 2, with just Shiffrin to go to for USA 1. She delivered a powerful performance, but it was just short of the podium, pushing the team into fourth place. 

"I didn't sleep well the last couple of nights, but I felt grateful that I had another opportunity with Paula," said Wiles, who had finished just off the downhill podium in fourth on Sunday. "I just tried to move forward quickly. Paula gave me some really nice words of encouragement. It’s really special that both of us had that same kind of feeling coming in, like we wanted it that badly, wanting it for everybody."

"I knew I had a lot of faith in the process, and Jackie had set us up in an incredible start position," said Moltzan. "I watched a lot of people and processed what I needed to do, took some deep breaths and took my husband's words of wisdom, which was that pressure is a privilege."

Team USA 3, consisting of Keely Cashman and AJ Hurt were 15th, while Team USA 4 of Bella Wright and Nina O'Brien was a DNF. 

Austria's Ariane Raeddler and Katharina Huber teamed up to win the gold, while Germany's Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher took the silver. The medal was Aicher's second of these Games as she also won the silver in Sunday's downhill.

RESULTS
Olympic team combined

Team USA's Ben Ogden won the Olympic silver medal in the classic sprint at the Tesero Cross Country Skiing Stadium on Tuesday, ending a 50-year-long drought of American men on the Olympic podium. Julia Kern finished sixth, JC Schoonmaker rounded out the top 10 in eighth. 

It was one of those days that many will look back on and say, "this is the day cross country skiing changed in America." On another partly cloudy day in the valley of Val di Fiemme, Italy, eight athletes lined up on the start line for the Olympic classic sprint. Ogden, Gus Schumacher, Zak Ketterson and JC Schoonmaker represented the men, while Jessie Diggins, Kern, Lauren Jortberg and Sammy Smith represented the women. With a challenging course featuring steep, long uphills that required excellent kick and ripping downhills that required tactical skiing and fast glide, it was truly anyone's game. 

Out of the qualification round, it was Ogden setting the tone, crossing the line in the second fastest time behind Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo. Ketterson, Schoonmaker, Diggins, Kern, Jortberg and Smith joined in on the top 30 fun. This was the first Olympic start for Smith and Jortberg, and Jortberg's first time in the classic sprint heats in her professional career. 

Into the quarterfinals, Ogden, Schoonmaker and Kern made their way through. For Kern, her speed was there and so was her luck. Sitting in the lucky loser position is hard for any athlete, but for Kern, being in this position in both the quarterfinals and the semifinals was even trickier; she advanced nonetheless. For Ogden, he played the game. He handily won his quarterfinal heat to punch his ticket to the semis. Schoonmaker also showed his speed, placing second in the fourth quarterfinal heat and advancing to the next round. 

Then, the semis and finals. Ogden punched his way to the finals by placing third in his heat. Schoonmaker was fourth, and despite his day ending there, his eighth-place overall finish shows how far he has come this season. Now, the final. Women were off first. Kern was settled in the back, hammering her way around the course. On the steep uphill, with thousands of fans lining the course, Kern pushed to her max. Across the finish line in sixth. Her career-best Olympic result. 

Then, it was all eyes on Ogden. Off the line, Ogden settled in alongside Klaebo and Oskar Opstad Vike of Norway, and immediately split up the field. With the three men charging up the hill, it was Klaebo vs. Ogden, or as ski fans would say, the "Klaebo Kick" vs the "Benny Shuffle." Into the finishing straight, Ogden was second behind Klaebo. Across the finish, his hands shot straight up into the air; screams from his family members and the athletes and staff flooding the finish line were heard for miles, and Ben Ogden crossed the line to secure the first Olympic medal since Bill Koch in 1976. 

"I have dreamed about being the one to bring home an Olympic medal for the vermont cross country ski community and here we are," said Ogden. "Its unbelievable. I am so proud. I mean, you think about winning a medal so often, but I can confidently say that nothing prepares you for this."

"I hope it gives the future of the sport in the U.S. a big boost. I know that Bill Koch winning his medal gave a big boost to all the young skiers and all the people who dreamed that the U.S. could be champions in cross country skiing. I hope that this will help propel us into the next 50 years."

Norway's Johannes Klaebo took his second gold medal of the 2026 Games, while his countryman Oskar Vike took the bronze. In the women's final, Sweden swept the medals with Linn Svhan taking gold, Jonna Sundlin silver and Maja Dalhqvist winning bronze.

RESULTS
Women's classic sprint
Men's classic sprint 

17-year-old Avery Krumme stepped into the Olympic spotlight in the women’s freeski slopestyle final, taking 11th in her first Olympic Games.

Krumme earned her place in the final earlier in the week with a strong qualification showing, advancing in fourth place and signaling that she belonged among the sport’s elite. She put down an aggressive first run as her top score, but had a mistake on the opening rail section. However, her jumps were clean and well-executed, drawing applause from the crowd despite the early error that ultimately held her back in the standings.

“Competing with the best women in the world is an honor and I’m so grateful to be here,” said Krumme.

The podium was claimed by some of the most established names in women’s freeskiing, with Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud defending her 2022 gold, China’s Eileen Gu earning silver and Canada’s Megan Oldham securing bronze. 

When asked about what it’s like to see the standard set by Gremaud and Gu, Krumme commented, “It’s really inspiring because hopefully going into the next Games, I’ll be where they are.” 

Krumme’s Olympic slopestyle debut made it clear that she is a name to watch. She and her Team USA teammates Marin Hamill, Grace Henderson and Rell Harwood will next compete in the Olympic freeski big air. 

RESULTS
Women's Olympic slopestyle

LOS ANGELES, CA and PARK CITY, UT - U.S. Ski & Snowboard and Stept Studios announced the release of Qualified, an original documentary produced in partnership with Ensemble and Local Studio, spotlighting the Stifel U.S. Freestyle Ski Team women’s moguls team as they navigate the high-stakes journey to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. The documentary is available to watch on NBC’s Peacock and NBCSN.

WATCH THE QUALIFIED TRAILER

Qualified focuses on the U.S. women’s moguls team, the No. 1 ranked team in the world, following eight elite athletes competing for just four Olympic spots. Spanning years of training, injury, sacrifice and deep camaraderie, the series offers an intimate look at the emotional and physical cost of excellence, where friendship and rivalry coexist in the pursuit of representing one’s country on sport’s biggest stage.

"Having a docuseries of our women’s mogul team on Peacock is incredibly special," says 2022 Olympic silver medalist moguls skier Jaelin Kauf, who is featured in Qualified. "This team is stacked with talent, but even more meaningful is the culture that we’ve built on this team. The support, trust and love we have for one another. What is really special to me is that we show that you can chase greatness while still being a good teammate and a good person. This team proves that you don’t have to choose between being a fierce competitor and lifting others up and I really hope that this series inspires girls and boys growing up in sport to believe in both."

“Qualified is about far more than medals or rankings - it’s about the emotional reality behind elite performance,” said Meredith Rodriguez, Executive Producer and President at Stept Studios. 

The series was supported by Dunkin’, the official coffee and breakfast partner of U.S. Ski & Snowboard. Additional support was provided by Visit Salt Lake, where many of the athletes featured in Qualified live and train year-round.

“This series created a natural opportunity for Dunkin’ to show up in a way that feels genuine to the team, the lifestyle and the audience,” said Ian Schafer, Executive Producer, President, and Co-Founder of Ensemble.

Qualified is released in partnership with NBC Sports as part of its Olympic documentary programming surrounding the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, with the film available on Peacock and NBCSN starting on Feb. 8 and available on demand through June 30, 2026. The short will also be released as a docuseries on the U.S. Ski & Snowboard YouTube channel, expanding access for fans and the global winter sports community.

“This series reflects the values at the core of U.S. Ski & Snowboard: grit, teamwork, and an unwavering commitment to excellence,” said Sophie Goldschmidt, U.S. Ski & Snowboard President and CEO. “Qualified gives fans an authentic look at the dedication and sacrifice our athletes make every day as they pursue the Olympic dream.”

Credits:

A Stept Studios Production 
in Association with Ensemble 
and Local Studio

Executive Producers: Meredith Rodriguez, Ian Schafer, Max Haimowitz, Dave Finger, Todd Barrish
Director: Mike Parenteau
Showrunner: Sean Slobodan 
Directors of Photography: Cam Riley & Sean Slobodan
Producer: Shandi Kano
Line Producer: Alexa Hinson 
Story By: Iz La Motte and Sara Beam Robbins
Post Production Company: LOCKT
Executive Post Producer: Nicole Johal
Editors: Cam Doherty, Graham Pritchard, James Dayton, Estavon Hawley
Sound Design and Mix: Eric Crepeau, Manuel Rivas
Brand Integration: Kendall Hall (Ensemble)

Kyle Negomir laid down a proud, aggressive downhill run and River Radamus pulled out all the stops in the afternoon slalom, as Team USA finished 19th in the alpine team combined on another sun-splashed day on Bormio’s Stelvio slope at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

Swiss speedster Franjo Von Allman teamed up with countryman Tanguy Neff to win his second gold medal of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games with a combined downhill and slalom run time of 2 minutes, 44.04 seconds. Von Allmen also won gold in the downhill on Saturday. The Austrian pair of Vincent Kriechmayr and Manuel Feller, along with the Swiss pair of Marco Odermatt and Loic Meillard, tied for the silver medal at 2:45.03.

Negomir came out hot in the downhill, which was the first run of the team combined. Just off the leading split midway down the track, he was poised to pull out another top-10 downhill performance as he did in Saturday’s Olympic downhill. However, a slight mistake on the lower portion of the course knocked him off the pace. 

“Coming in as an underdog team, we had to really push the limit to be able to be competitive and fight for a medal here,” Negomir said. ”I might have gone just over the limit, unfortunately, in a couple of turns and made a few too many mistakes."

“It's super special and pretty unique in our sport to get to ski for a team and take risks and really push the limit for more than just yourself,” he added. “That just added that extra level of motivation to be on the edge today.”

For Negomir, just having the opportunity to race alongside one of his best friends, especially after missing the 2025 World Championships last season, was very special.  “Last year I was the only guy from, I think, our whole men's team, that was sitting at home watching the world championships,” he said. “So to be here and be part of the team and representing the U.S. in the team event, that means a ton.”

In the afternoon slalom, Radamus, who hasn’t raced slalom since the U.S. Alpine Championships last season, gave it his all against some of the best slalom skiers in the world. 

“I sat out here, and I watched (Kyle) ski his run, and I was sort of moved because he skied so hard,” Radamus said. “He skied with all his heart and made a couple of mistakes, but he was skiing so fearlessly. So I knew I had to return the favor. I don't think either of us had perfect runs, but as Kyle said, we grew up together. We've seen the sacrifices each other have made. We have pushed each other for years now. So getting to race for my brother here and for my country is a really special moment.”

Radamous will get another shot at the slalom course on Monday, Feb. 16. He also plans to race the Super-G on Wednesday, Feb. 11  and the giant slalom on Saturday, Feb. 14. Negomir, meanwhile, also plans to race the super-G and the giant slalom.

RESULTS
Olympic team combined

U.S. Ski & Snowboard has announced the eight skiers who will compete in the women’s team combined event debuting at Milano Cortina Winter Games on February 10th. The men’s team combined team was announced Feb. 8 via social media. 

Teams are selected by coaches using results-based criteria from evaluative events, including the 2026 Olympic downhill race. The top downhill skier will be paired with the top slalom skier and so on through four teams.

Highlighting the team will be the newly crowned 2026 downhill Olympic champion, Breezy Johnson, paired with the most successful alpine skier in the modern era, Mikaela Shiffrin. Both Shiffrin and Johnson will look to add another medal for Team USA and continue their golden run, having won gold at the 2025 World Championships in the team combined.

It is the first time the event will be seen at the Olympic Winter Games. The event consists of two runs: one downhill and one slalom. The fastest combined time from both runs combined wins the event. 

TEAM COMBINED PAIRS 
Women
USA Team 1: Breezy Johnson (downhill) & Mikaela Shiffrin (slalom)
USA Team 2: Jackie Wiles (downhill) & Paula Moltzan (slalom) 
USA Team 3: Bella Wright (downhill) & Nina O’Brien (slalom) 
USA Team 4: Keely Cashman (downhill) & AJ Hurt (slalom) 

Men
USA Team 1: Kyle Negomir (downhill) & River Radamus (slalom)

HOW TO WATCH (All times ET)

Monday 2/9
4:30 a.m. - men's team combined downhill - Streaming: Peacock & Broadcast: USA Network
8:00 a.m. - men's team combined slalom - Streaming: Peacock & Broadcast: USA Network
12:45 p.m. - men's team combined - Broadcast: NBC (tape delay)

Tuesday, 2/10
1:00 a.m. - men's team combined - Broadcast: USA Network (tape delay)

Gus Schumacher led Team USA in the men’s skiathlon Sunday at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, placing 24th at the Tesero Cross Country Stadium after battling back from an early-race fall.

Schumacher covered the 20k course, which features 10k of classic skiing and 10k of skate skiing, in 48:27.5, finishing 2:16.5 behind Norway’s Johannes Klaebo, who captured gold in 46:11.0. France’s Mathis Desloges earned silver in 46:13.0, while Klaebo’s teammate Martin Nyenget took bronze in 46:13.1. Hunter Wonders was the second American finisher in (49:02.1) in his Olympic debut, alongside teammate Zanden McMullen in 36th (49:26.3), followed by Zak Ketterson in 43rd (50:23.5); both also are first-time Olympians. 

Schumacher’s race was defined early by chaos in the pack. Skiing near the front, he tangled behind Ketterson after a fall that sent both Americans to the back of the field. Ketterson broke a pole while Schumacher quickly recovered and worked his way back into top-30 contention.

“I was dead last after the fall,” said Gus Schumacher. “Unfortunately Zak fell right in front of me and, you know, it was tight coming into that corner and I didn't see what happened to Zak, but into the dropdown, I got one ski around him but the other caught him and spun me around off track. I did what I could, but when the other people at the front are still going as fast, it's hard to catch them. All I could do was ski as smooth as I could for the next 18k. I mean, at that point, it's an individual race for 18k. I feel like I skied well for being back there.”

Schumacher improved on his Olympic skiathlon result from Beijing 2022, where he placed 39th. That year, Scott Patterson — who finished 10th — was the only other American on the start line. With four U.S. men entered in today's event, the lineup reflected growing depth within the U.S. men's cross country program. Despite early starts and tricky maneuvering through the 73-deep field of athletes, each delivered a solid performance in the first race of the Olympics. 

“Today's race was not great, but not horrendous,” said McMullen. “I felt really good in the classic leg and then I don't know what happened in the skate portion. I was cramping up quite a bit, and just didn't have it."

“I fell on that same corner Jessie (Diggins) fell on (yesterday) and I was hopeful that we'd ski it well but coming into it, everyone started snowplowing and freaking out and someone in front of me fell. I fell pretty hard, but I got back up and just burned so many matches catching up to the whole group,” said Ketterson. “I was fighting from there to the finish.”

"It was hard," said Wonders. "It was a hard course with tricky conditions. The skiathlon is difficult because it mixes it up with the muscle groups you use and takes a second to transition, but it was fun! Great Olympic debut."

Team USA will now reset with a rest day before competition resumes Tuesday, Feb. 10, with the men’s and women’s classic sprint.

RESULTS
Men

Breezy Johnson, the reigning World Downhill Champion, added Olympic gold to her collection, winning the 2026 Olympic downhill on the Olimpia delle Tofane course in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy on Sunday. Jackie Wiles just missed the podium, finishing fourth.

"I felt like it was solid," Johnson said of her run. "I thought that there were definitely some places that weren't the best, but I hope that it would be enough. I just tried to keep it rolling. I knew it was fast, and some of the places where I made mistakes, I was like 'did I just make a mistake or did I make a mistake because I was going fast.'"

Lindsey Vonn crashed just 13 seconds into her downhill run after hooking a right-hand gate and was taken off the course for treatment. 

Johnson, wearing bib six, posted a winning time of 1 minute, 36.10 seconds. Germany's Emma Aicher took the silver medal, 0.07 seconds back, followed by Italy's Sofia Goggia, with the bronze at 0.18 off Johnson's winning time. Wiles was fourth at 0.86 back. Bella Wright was 21st for Team USA.

Johnson's gold is the first medal won by Team USA at the 2026 Olympics, and she did it with mastery on a course that knocked her out of the 2022 Olympics.

"I don't think my journey (to this gold medal) is something that many people are envious of, and it's been a tough road," she said. "But sometimes you just have to keep going because that's the only option and you know if you're going through hell you keep walking because you don't want to just sit around in hell and sometimes when you keep going, maybe you'll make it back to the top."

For Wiles, it was a bittersweet day watching her close friend crash, and then just coming up short for a medal. "There were a lot of emotions before (my run)," Wiles said. "I saw Breezy have an incredible run and I was really pumped for her. It was cool to watch. Then watching Lindsey go down from the start was pretty awful. To watch that happen to someone whom you really care about, my heart just broke for her.

"I tried to stay in the moment," she continued. "I still had a job to do, and I'm proud of the way I skied. But it's hard being in fourth after everything I have been through in my career. At my age, I don't have many chances left, so yeah, it hurts. It's really hard, but I'm trying to look ahead to a lot more racing and that is all I can do."

RESULTS
Women's Olympic downhill

Annika Belshaw led the way for Team USA on Saturday evening, finishing 21st in the women’s normal hill ski jumping competition at the Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games in Predazzo, Italy. 

Belshaw posted a two-jump total of 225.4 points to pace three U.S. athletes who advanced to the final round. Paige Jones followed closely behind in 23rd place with 222.6 points, while Josie Johnson rounded out the American contingent with a 27th-place finish, totaling 216.4 points.

Norway’s Anna Odine Strøm earned the Olympic gold medal with a winning score of 267.3 points, edging Slovenia’s Nika Prevc, who captured silver with 266.2 points. Nozomi Maruyama of Japan completed the podium, taking bronze with 261.8 points.

The event marked another important milestone for the U.S. women’s ski jumping program, with all three American competitors finishing in the top 30 on the sport’s biggest stage.

RESULTS
Women's Olympic normal hill

On a thrilling night at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, 17-year-old Ollie Martin delivered a standout performance in the men’s snowboard big air final, just missing an Olympic medal in fourth place. 

Martin, the youngest rider in the event and the only U.S. competitor to advance to the finals, impressed against seasoned veterans. Dealing with a broken arm sustained from a fall in X Games practice just 10 days earlier - in which he had surgery for - the Colorado native showed resilience and determination to compete in his first Olympic games and finish just shy of the podium.

When asked about narrowly missing the podium in a post contest interview, Martin was as optimistic as ever.

"I mean any result is great, fourth is great, third would have been better, but I'm just happy I am out of the contest safe."

"i'm pretty proud of myself," Martin continued. "Just to be able to come this far is pretty cool."

The men’s snowboard big air gold was won by Japan’s Kira Kimura with teammate Ryoma Kimata taking the silver. China’s Yiming Su, the defending Olympic champion from Beijing, claimed bronze.

Reaching the Olympic final on his debut Games is an achievement in itself. A rising star in the snowboard world, Martin gained international attention before the Olympics with top World Cup and World Championships results, including two bronze medals at the 2025 World Championships just last year.

Martin was the only American man to qualify for the big air finals; Jake Canter, Red Gerard and Sean FitzSimons all participated in the qualification round, but did not make it through to finals. The snowboard big air/slopestyle team next competes in snowboard slopestyle qualifications on Feb. 16.

RESULTS
Men’s Olympic big air