Kim, who will be 25 come the Milan Cortina Games, can become the first snowboarder to win the same Olympic event three times (if she isn’t beaten to it by Austrian Anna Gasser (big air) and Czech Ester Ledecka (parallel giant slalom).

The mascots for the 2026 Winter Olympics have officially been revealed! Meet Milo, short for Milano, and Tina, short for Cortina, who are stoats which are a short-tailed mammals that can be found in the Italian Alps.

NBC: More Broadcast Network Programming Hours than Any Previous Winter Olympics; Will Feature Live Daytime and Extended Weekend Coverage, Plus Enhanced Olympic Primetime Show: Primetime in Milan

Next winter, the world's greatest athletes will be in Milan Cortina to put on the performance of their lives. Watch the 2026 Winter Olympics in one year, on NBC and Peacock.

Next year’s Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but it will actually be staged across a large swath of northern Italy spread over five different venue clusters.

Olympic curling champion Eve Muirhead believes Milan-Cortina 2026 will be a mix of the Winter Games’ past and future as it combines alpine resort settings with a wide geographic spread of existing venues to keep costs down.

Also important to know, there are 3 international airports in Milan- Malpensa (MXP), Linate (LIN) and Bergamo (BGY). Malpensa Airport is the main airport in Milan and the second busiest airport in Italy. Linate is the closet airport to the city center and the second busiest airport in Milan. Bergamo Airport is the least popular airport in the city.

The century-old sliding center being completely rebuilt for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games is pushing the deadline really tight.

From NHL stars on the ice to Mikaela Shiffrin on the slopes, here are five storylines to watch with the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics just one year away.