PlanetSKI’s 2026 Winter Olympics Rolling Blog
5th February 2026
Last modified on February 9th, 2026
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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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