Mikaela Shiffrin isn’t just winning every slalom of the Olympic season. She’s winning them by an average of more than 1.5 seconds – an eternity in ski racing.

In the first luge event held at the 2026 Olympic track in Cortina, 2024 World junior champions Marcus Mueller (a pilot who owns a four-seat airplane) and Ansel Haugsjaa (HOWG-shaw) led the U.S. by placing second in men’s doubles.

The lone U.S. Alpine skiing medal of the 2022 Winter Games was forged in the rolling hills of Northwest Vermont, at the Cochran Ski Area to be exact. The single-lift ski hill is where 1972 slalom gold medalist Barbara Cochran showed her son, Ryan Cochran-Siegle, the ropes of the family business.

New Zealand skier Alice Robinson is off to quite a start to the Olympic season and shaping up as Mikaela Shiffrin’s biggest challenger in the overall World Cup standings

Aleksander Kilde, reacted to his fiancée Mikaela Shiffrin's win on Sunday, November 30, 2025, in Copper Mountain, Colorado. She dominated the race with a combined time of 1:48.

Switzerland’s Michelle Gisin defended her Olympic title, winning back-to-back golds in the women’s combined. She won with a time of 2:25.67, 1:05 seconds ahead of countrywoman Wendy Holdener. Italy’s Federica Brignone finished with the bronze medal.

Winter Olympic staples like Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin, and Chloe Kim highlight the list of players to keep an eye on at the 2026 Games.

American skiing standout Mikaela Shiffrin claimed a record-extending 105th World Cup victory on Tuesday after several of her top challengers went out during the opening run of a women's slalom in Courcheval,

COURCHEVEL, France, Dec 16 - Mikaela Shiffrin took a record-extending 105th career World Cup win by a mighty margin as the U.S. Alpine ski great continued her slalom sweep for the season in the French resort of Courchevel on Tuesday.