Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. That's a Wrap!
- Raúl Revuelta
- 10 hours ago
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The Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games will be in the history books next Sunday. The Closing Ceremony will take place on February 22, at the Verona Arena in Verona, Italy. The Mayors of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Giuseppe Sala and Gianluca Lorenzi, will hand the Olympic flag over to the International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry. She will hand the flag over to Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, France, the next host nation, for the 2030 Olympic Winter Games in the French Alps.
With the Closing Ceremony, Milano-Cortina 2026 will bid farewell to the international stage, after two weeks of spectacular races and thrilling sports moments.
Franjo Von Allmen and Federica Brignone claimed the titles of King and Queen of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games with three and two gold medals, respectively.
Franjo von Allmen was a standout in the Men's speed events, winning gold in both the Downhill and Super-G. Alongside Tanguy Nef, he also secured victory in the Team Combined event.
Federica Brignone led the home nation's success with two gold medals, winning both the women's Giant Slalom and the Super-G.
At the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, Switzerland leads the medal table with a total of nine medals, including four gold, three silver, and two bronze.
Nine nations are listed in the medal standings of the Games.
On February 11, Franjo von Allmen won the gold medal in the Men’s Super-G at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. After winning gold in the Downhill and the Team Combined event, the 24-year-old Swiss skier also won the Super-G to claim the double in the speed events. He won the Downhill Olympic title just one year after winning the World Championship title in Saalbach.
Only two men, Toni Sailer in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 and Jean-Claude Killy in Grenoble in 1968, and one woman, Janica Kostelic in Salt Lake in 2002, have claimed three gold medals at the Winter Games before him. He is also the first Swiss to win the gold medal in the Super-G event, a discipline that has been part of the program since 1988 in Calgary. Von Allmen is the first Swiss ski racer to win two gold medals at the Winter Games. Now he has three, the first Swiss athlete in history to achieve this feat.
On February 15, Federica Brignone was crowned the Queen of the Games, delighting Italian fans with her outstanding victory in the Giant Slalom at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics. This win marked her second alpine gold medal at the Games after winning the Super-G event. With her victory, the 35-year-old Italian skier became the oldest-ever winner of a gold medal in the Winter Games. She won the Giant Slalom Olympic title just one year after winning the World Championship title in Saalbach.
The Italian skier was competing in her fifth Winter Olympics at the Milano Cortina 2026 Games. She has now won five Olympic medals, including two golds, a bronze in Giant Slalom at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games, and a silver in Giant Slalom and a bronze in the Alpine Combined at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
Federica Brignone completed a perfect comeback today. It's been 318 days since Federica Brignone suffered fractures to her left tibia and fibula, as well as a torn cruciate ligament, in a crash at the Italian Championships.
Breezy Johnson unexpectedly secured the gold medal in the Downhill event at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. This victory came just a year after she claimed the World Championship title in Saalbach. The 30-year-old American skier has achieved nine podium finishes in the World Cup but has never won a race. This was her second Winter Olympics. She previously finished seventh in the Downhill event at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen claimed gold in the Giant Slalom at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, defeating big favorite and defending Olympic Champion Marco Odermatt and his teammate Loic Meillard to claim Brazil's first gold at the Winter Olympics.
The Norwegian-born skier, now representing Brazil, secured victory thanks to his flawless first run. The 25-year-old exploited his first starting position with bib number one, laying down a run that leaves the competition in awe. He became only the second athlete, after Italy's Alberto Tomba in Calgary in 1998, to win Olympic gold in the Giant slalom after starting with bib number one.
It was also Braathen's first medal at the Winter Games since his DNFs in the Giant Slalom and Slalom at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Loic Meillard won the gold medal in the Men's Slalom at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. It's the third Olympic medal for the 29-year-old Swiss skier at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Games, after earning silver in the Team Combined and bronze in the Giant Slalom.
Meillard won the Slalom Olympic title just one year after winning the World Championship title in Saalbach.
He became the first Swiss skier to win an Olympic slalom event since Edy Reinalter's victory in St. Moritz in 1948. Since then, Swiss skiers have only earned two additional Olympic medals: Jacques Lüthy won bronze in Lake Placid in 1980, and Ramon Zenhäusern claimed silver in PyeongChang in 2018.
In the final Alpine Skiing event at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, Mikaela Shiffrin proved once again why she is the undisputed G.O.A.T. of Alpine skiing by winning her second Olympic Slalom gold medal. It’s Shiffrin’s third Olympic victory. In 2014, Shiffrin won gold in slalom at Sochi, and in 2018, the 30-year-old US skier took home gold in Giant Slalom and silver in the Alpine Combined.
Shiffrin is the second skier, after the Swiss legend Vreni Schneider, to win two Olympic Slalom titles. After Cortina's gold, she now joins Julia Mancuso as the most decorated U.S. woman in Olympic Alpine Skiing history.
For the first time in Olympic history, the program in Saalbach included the Team Combined event.
Franjo von Allmen and Tanguy Nef claimed gold at the Team Combined Event at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber won the gold medal in the Team Combined event at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympic Winter Games.
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