PlanetSKI’s 2026 Winter Olympics Rolling Blog
5th February 2026
Last modified on February 20th, 2026
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Friday 20th – Day 14
Tomorrow is looking promising:
Milan-Cortina 2026 Preview: Day 15
Five medals are up for grabs for Team GB on Day 15 of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
All times are GMT
Curling
Team Mouat will contest the gold medal match against Canada at 6.05pm.
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, and Hammy McMillan Jr all won silver at Beijing 2022 and will now look to go one better in Cortina.
Freestyle Skiing
Zoe Atkin competes in the women’s halfpipe final at 6.30pm.
Atkin posted the highest score, 91.50, in qualifying and is the reigning world and X Games champion.
Ollie Davies goes in the men’s ski cross from 9am.
The final will take place at 12.10pm.
Bobsleigh
Adele Nicoll and Ashleigh Nelson complete their two-woman bobsleigh campaign with their third and fourth runs from 6pm.
They begin their campaign this evening.
The men’s four-man team of Brad Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Greg Cackett and Leon Greenwood take to the ice from 9am for their first two runs.
Cross-country
Andrew Musgrave and Joe Davies compete in the men’s 50km mass start classic from 10am.
Thursday 19th – Day 13
And here’s what’s to come tomorrow on snow and ice:
Milan- Cortina 2026 Preview: Day 14
Team GB take on the final Friday of the 2026 Winter Olympics with up to four sports in action.
Freestyle Skiing
Gus Kenworthy and Liam Richards will take on men’s halfpipe qualification from 9.30am.
Should they qualify, the final gets underway at 6.30pm.
Bobsleigh
Adele Nicoll and Ashleigh Nelson will begin their two-woman bobsleigh competition from 5pm.
They will contest the first two heats before returning for the final two on Saturday.
Nelson will become the second British woman to compete at both a Summer and Winter Olympics, having represented Team GB at Beijing 2008 and Tokyo 2020.
Speed Skating
Ellia Smeding will compete in the women’s 1500m from 3.30pm.
Smeding finished 11th in the 1000m and 25th in the 500m.
Curling
The men’s curling bronze medal match takes place at 6.05pm.
Team Mouat will take part should they lose to Switzerland in their semi-final this evening.
Should they defeat Switzerland, they will advance to the gold medal match on Saturday at 6.05pm.
Wednesday 18th – Day 12
Massive Congrats to GB’s cross-country guys – 5th in the Team Sprint Free.
Best Olympic performance in the discipline.
Monday 16th February – Day 10
GB slalom skier Dave Ryding ended his Olympic career on Monday with a Top Twenty place as he came 17th in Bormio.
Tributes have been pouring in for ‘The Rocket’ as he bows out at his 5th Winter Olympics.
See here for the full details as PlanetSKI and others pay tribute:
Dave Ryding at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Image © Sam Mellish/Team GB
Freestyle skier Kirsty Muir once again came close to a Winter Olympic medal for Team GB with her second fourth-place finish of the Games.
In the big air, Muir scored a combined 174.75 points from her best two runs, 3.5 points behind the Italian bronze medallist, Flora Tabanelli.
It comes a week after the 21-year-old missed out on slopestyle bronze by just 0.41 points.
“I’m really proud of myself for putting the two tricks down that I did, and also going for it in that third run because I’ve never landed that trick before,” Muir, competing at her second Games, told BBC Sport.
“I just had to go for it, and yes I crashed out, but I’m still proud of myself.”
High hopes for Team GB remain with freestyle skier Zoe Atkin, who is the current halfpipe world champion.
She starts her campaign with qualifying on Thursday, with the final set to take place on Saturday.
Earlier on Monday:
GB’s snowsports athletes are in action today:
Alpine skiing: Men’s slalom (run one 09:00; run two 12:30)
Dave Ryding will compete in this event at his fifth and final Games.
“I’ve had a really long career, a really successful career,” he said on the eve of the event in Bormio.
The 38-year-old slalom specialist became the first British alpine skier to win a World Cup race as he topped the podium at Kitzbuhel in 2022.
In the 2025 World Championships he sealed GB’s best result by a male since 1934 by finishing sixth.
He’ll be up against Clement Noel from France who is the defending Olympic champion.
Switzerland’s Loic Meillard who is the 2025 world champion.
Plus Henrik Kristoffersen, the most successful slalom skier ever produced by Norway, although Olympic gold has so far eluded him.
Dave Ryding in Schladming, Jan 2024. Image © PlanetSKI
Freestyle skiing: Women’s big air final (18:30-19:50)
Kirsty Muir was the youngest member of Team GB in 2022, coming a brilliant fifth in the final, and the 21-year-old Scot will be hoping to be in the mix again.
But it looks like being a high-class field that will include defending champion Eileen Gu, 2026 slopestyle gold medallist Mathilde Gremaud and Canada’s Megan Oldham.
And all Italian eyes will be on Flora Tabanelli, who won the 2025 world title aged just 17 – the skier from Bologna is the reigning Youth Olympic champion in big air, and now has her eyes on the senior title.
GB’s freestyle skier Kirsty Muir had her maiden World Cup victory in 2025. Image © GB Snowsport.
Friday 13th February – Day Seven
It’s disappointment for GB’s Charlotte Brookes as she exits the snowboard cross at the quarter-final stage.
It’s another missed medal chance for Team GB.
She is a former world champion and has 26 World Cup golds to her name.
It was the same story four years ago in Beijing when Bankes exited at the same stage.
Asked by BBC Sport how she was feeling, Bankes replied: “Lost.
“I feel like I’ve done exactly the same as four years ago, which is very frustrating.
“We’ve worked incredibly hard to improve from that and I feel it hasn’t made any difference today.
“I’ve been struggling with the track all week, but we thought we’d found solutions.
“I really wanted this one.”
Bankes’ preparations for these Games had not been ideal.
In April last year she broke her collarbone, an injury she needed further surgery – including a bone graft from her hip – on in the summer after it was found not to be healing correctly.
“It’s a tough one to swallow. I was hoping to put on a better show, but it didn’t work out today,” she added.
“It can be a cruel sport. The team did all the work behind me and I didn’t pull it off.”
Australia’s Josie Baff won gold, with Czech Eva Adamczykova taking silver and Italian home favourite and former champion Michela Moioli the bronze.
Bankes has just 48 hours to brush off her disappointment before she returns to the start gate alongside team-mate Huw Nightingale in the mixed team event.
Bankes and Nightingale were crowned world champions in 2023.
The Livigno Snow Park has not been a happy hunting ground so far for Team GB at the Milan-Cortina Games, and the wait goes on for a first Olympic gold or silver medal on snow.
Bankes won her first race since returning from injury in January.
Charlotte Bankes took victory in her last World Cup snowboard cross event:
Charlotte Bankes – photo PlanetSKI
Team GB is yet to get a medal, but snowsport hopes rest with these athletes:
Zoe Atkin
Sport: Freestyle skiing (halfpipe)
Competition dates: 19 February (qualifying), 21 February (finals).
Zoe Atkin is the reigning halfpipe world champion.
She has achieved three podium finishes from three starts on the World Cup circuit this season, including a gold.
She also won gold at the recent X Games.
Zoe Atkin wins, FIS Freeski World Cup 2025-26 at Copper Mountain. Image credit Andrew Wevers/FIS.
Mia Brookes
Sport: Snowboarding (slopestyle)
Competition dates: 16 February (qualifying), 17 February (finals)
Mia Brookes came so close to a medal in the big air but has an arguably better chance in her preferred slopestyle.
In 2023, she became the youngest world champion in snowboarding history at the age of 16 with slopestyle gold.
She has won back-to-back big air Crystal Globes and won World Cup gold in December, as well as slopestyle gold and big air bronze at the recent X Games.
Mia Brookes. Image c/o FIS Park & Pipe.
Kirsty Muir
Sport: Freestyle skiing (big air)
Competition dates: 14 February (qualifying), 16 February (finals)
Kirsty Muir was devastated after missing out on a slopestyle medal but another shot is coming her way in the big air.
She is a two-time World Cup gold medallist, her second coming in the big air in Secret Garden, China, in November.
At the recent X Games in Aspen she won slopestyle gold and big air silver.
GB’s freestyle skier Kirsty Muir had her maiden World Cup victory in 2025. Image © GB Snowsport.
Tuesday 10th February – Day Four
On a day with little main snowsport action at The Games we’re casting our minds back…
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Monday 9th February – Day Three
It has been a disappointing day for Team GB.
Medals were in prospect for Kirtsy Muir in the slopestyle final and Mia Brookes in the snowboard big air.
Both finished in fourth place.
Brookes attempted a Cab 1620 trick, featuring four and a half rotations, she landed it before she over-rotated and her heel edge was caught in the snow.
“That was a gold,” said Ed Leigh on BBC Sport commentary.
“She so nearly held on to it. It would have been a world first in competition.”
Instead, the 19-year-old finished just off the podium with a combined score of 159.50 from her opening two runs.
“It was insane. Obviously I’m bummed I couldn’t land that last trick,” Brookes said to BBC Sport.
“I had too much spin on it, which I didn’t think I would. Maybe I should have done an 1800 instead!”
Mia Brookes goes for another shot at a medal in the slopestyle which starts with the qualifiers on 16th February.
“I’m hyped for it, everything good can come from it. I’m in a good headspace and ready to to do slopestyle,” she added.
Kirsty Muir also narrowly missed out on medal.
Plus there was a missed opportunity for a guaranteed curling medal for GB’s Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds in the mixed doubles.
They lost their semi-final and will now compete for the bronze medal.
Sunday 8th February – Day Two
19 year old Mia Brookes qualifies in 3rd place for Monday’s women’s big air final.
She is one of our strongest medal hopes.
Shortly after being officially told of her place on the Olympic team last month Mia Brookes won gold at the X-Games:
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“That was insane, I loved it. Every minute was awesome,” said Mia.
“After that first run I was so nervous but you just have to take your time at the top, not rush into anything.
“It really came out of me in an athlete way, keeping cool under the pressure, not really making any rash decisions or rushing anything.
“It was nice to see that come from inside myself.”
Lets not forget GB’s Andrew Musgrave who is competing in his 5th Olympics.
See here for a roundup of Day Two from Team GB:
More to follow…
Saturday 7th February – Day One
Kirsty Muir was third in the freeski slopestyle qualifying event and is through to the final on Monday.
Muir is one of Team GB’s best medal hopes.
She scored a best of 64.98 from her two runs in Livigno.
That put the 21-year-old behind Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud and China’s Eileen Gu – the gold and silver medallists from Beijing 2022 respectively.
“I am feeling really relieved. I was really nervous this morning. Putting a good run down in the qualifications was important for me because I wanted to be in that final,” Muir told BBC Sport.
“In the qualifying, it is sometimes more nerve-wracking, whereas, in the final you go all out and you either get it or you don’t. That’s what I am going to be ready for.”
After almost a year out with an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injury Muir has had a good season so far.
The 21-year-old Scot claimed two World Cup top spots in both women’s freeski slopestyle and big air.
She also won a gold at the X Games:
The Olympic final takes place on Monday from 11:30 GMT.
Friday 6th February – Opening Ceremony
International Olympic Committee President, Kirsty Coventry, declared the Games underway at the Opening Ceremony on Friday evening.
She is first female to open the Olympic Games – summer or winter.
“This is why we all love the Games. Because through you, we see the very best of ourselves,” she told the athletes.
“You remind us that we can be brave. That we can be kind. That we can get back up, no matter how hard we fall.
“The spirit of the Olympic Games is about so much more than sport.
“It is about us – and what makes us human.
“This is the magic of the Olympic Games: inspiring us all to be the best that we can be, together.”
The cermony combined musical performances by artists including Mariah Carey, Laura Pausini and Andrea Bocelli, with a staging concept that extended beyond the San Siro stadium itself.
The lighting of two cauldrons —one at Milan’s Arco della Pace and the other in Cortina d’Ampezzo’s Piazza Dibona— embodies the desire to multiply traditional rituals in order to reflect the Games’ multi-hub nature.
Figure skater Lilah Fear was the Great Britain flagbearer in Milan, with bobsledder Brad Hall was given that honour in Cortina.
Italy aside, the warmest welcome was reserved for the Ukrainian athletes.
There were boos when US vice-president JD Vance was shown on the big screen, with negative crowd reactions for the Israel and Georgia teams as well.
Organisers described the show as “an extended invitation, a shared embrace, celebrating Italian uniqueness and made in Italy.”
Image c/o Milan-Cortina 2026
Events in Italy are spread between Milan, as the urban and ceremonial core, and the Alpine locations of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Valtellina, Val di Fiemme and Livigno, extending across Lombardy and Veneto and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano.
Around 2,900 athletes are competing in 16 disciplines for 116 gold medals.
There are more women’s events than ever before at a Winter Games.
Women are competing in more than half of all events.
There is the introduction of new women’s and mixed competitions, and the equalisation of distances for men and women in cross-country skiing.
Ski mountaineering —a discipline combining ascents, descents and extreme endurance— makes its Olympic debut.
Skiing in Italy. Image © PlanetSKI
UK Sport believes Team GB could win between four and eight medals at The Games.
The team came home from the Beijing 2022 Games with just two medals.
GB’s best medal haul at a Winter Games is five, achieved at Sochi 2014 and then matched in Pyeongchang four years later.
Team GB is taking twenty snowsport athletes to Milan-Cortina with four world class athletes in the ranks.
Mia Brookes, Charlotte Bankes, Zoe Atkin & Kirsty Muir are medal contenders.
Shortly after being officially told of her place on the Olympic team Mia Brookes won gold at the X-Games:
Charlotte Bankes took victory in her last World Cup snowboard cross event:
“Being named to Team GB for Milan Cortina 2026 is a proud and motivating moment for me,” said Zoe Atkin.
“It reflects the hard work and commitment that goes into every day of training, and it gives me even more drive as I prepare to compete on the Olympic stage.”
She celebrated place on Team GB with a gold at the X Games – a second gold for GB after Mia Brooke’s earlier win.
Zoe is no stranger to the World Cup podium this season.
She is competing at a second Olympic Games and aiming to emulate her sister, Izzy, who won bronze at PyeongChang in 2018 in freeski slopestyle.
Kirsty Muir has had a good season so far this season that has seen the 21-year-old Scot claim two World Cup top spots in both women’s freeski slopestyle and big air.
She also won a gold at the X Games:
GB’s other medal hopes:
Team GB have two of the best men’s skeleton athletes in two-time world champion Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt.
Between them, they have won every World Cup gold medal this season.
On the ice, Lewis Gibson and Lilah Fear are in with a shout of winning a first British Olympic figure skating medal since 1994.
Britain’s curlers look set to add to their two medals from 2022.
The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics are underway, and end on Sunday 22nd February.
Here are the snowsport athletes representing Great Britain:
Park & Pipe
- Zoe Atkin – Freeski Halfpipe
- Gus Kenworthy – Freeski Halfpipe
- Liam Richards – Freeski Halfpipe
- Chris McCormick – Freeski Slopestyle and Big Air
- Kirsty Muir – Freeski Slopestyle and Big Air
- Mia Brookes – Snowboard Slopestyle and Big Air
- Maisie Hill – Snowboard Slopestyle and Big Air
- Txema Mazet-Brown – Snowboard Slopestyle and Big Air
Alpine Skiing
- Billy Major – Slalom
- Dave Ryding – Slalom
- Laurie Taylor – Slalom
Cross-Country
- James Clugnet
- Joe Davies
- Andrew Musgrave
- Anna Pryce
Snowboard Cross
- Charlotte Bankes – Individual and team
- Huw Nightingale – Individual and team
Ski Cross
- Ollie Davies
Moguls
- Makayla Gerken Schofield
- Mateo Jeannesson
“It’s a real honour to be selected to represent Team GB again,” said the alpine ski favourite, Dave Ryding.
“I am looking forward to performing on the biggest stage in front of a central European crowd for the first time in my Olympic career and I can’t wait to get out there and into the action.
“I’ve never taken for granted what it means to represent my country and to have the chance to compete for Great Britain at an Olympic Games for the fifth time is something I could only have dreamed of when I went to my first Games back in 2010.”
Dave is competing in his last Winter Olympics and some of the loudest British cheers will be for ‘The Rocket’.
Dave Ryding in Schladming. Image © PlanetSKI
Like Dave, Andrew Musgrave will compete at his fifth Olympics as he participates in the cross-country.
“Over the past four years, our skiers and snowboarders have shown they’re capable of mixing it with the very best in the world, and the squad that’s heading out for these Games is a real reflection of the talent, grit, and will to win that makes British sport so special,” said the GB Snowsport chief executive, Vicky Gosling.
The Milan-Cortina Olympics will be the biggest Winter Games to be staged in the event’s history.
There will be 2,900 athletes from over 90 National Olympic Committees.
It will also be the biggest in geographic terms – venues are spread out all over an area of over 22,000 km².
The BBC will broadcast more than 450 hours of live action from the Games.
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