Ilia Malinin, Olympic team and Figure Skating
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Figure skater Maxim Naumov makes U.S. Olympic team a year after parents were killed in plane crash
The 24-year-old Naumov was one of 16 skaters selected to the U.S. Olympic Team following the U.S. figure skating championships in St. Louis.
Punctuated by the latest showstopping and backflipping performance by Ilia Malinin and the electrifying trio of Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito, the U.S. Figure Skating Championships officially concluded with the announcement of the 2026 Olympic team Sunday.
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Maxim Naumov Makes U.S. Olympic Team 1 Year After His Parents Tragically Died in D.C. Plane Crash
Figure skater Maxim Naumov was named to the 2026 U.S. Olympic team on Sunday, Jan. 11, one year after his parents, Evgenia 'Zhenya' Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were tragically killed in the American Airlines plane crash along with 65 others.
Shawn Johnson believes the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team can win at the 2028 Los Angeles Games even without Simone Biles, citing the country's historical dominance in the sport.
A Tokyo Olympics volunteer helped an athlete find his way, setting the stage for an unforgettable gold metal moment.
The 2026 U.S. Olympic Figure Skating team was announced following the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Tour is through four of six stages, all in Italy, with the last two stages this weekend at the 2026 Olympic venue of Val di Fiemme, Italy. Diggins is the lone North American woman or man to win a Tour de Ski, doing so in 2020-21 and 2023-24.
The hockey arena for the 2026 Olympics in Milan remained a work in progress as a test event was held on Jan. 9, according to reports.
This stat makes the Winter Games an exciting venue to launch new sports for spectators, including two brand-new events that will debut this year in Milano Cortina. Here are the fresh competitions taking place at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
In Olympic sports this weekend, Mikaela Shiffrin takes arguably the most dominant stretch of slalom skiing in history into the last Alpine skiing World Cup stop of 2025 — a giant slalom and slalom in Semmering, Austria, on Saturday and Sunday (live on NBCSN and Peacock ).
Over years of legal battles, fallout from those drug cases meant Russians had to compete in Pyeongchang in 2018 as “Olympic Athletes from Russia” and in Beijing in 2022 as the Russian Olympic Committee, both times without the national anthem.
The Canadian team, led by captain Marie-Philip Poulin, is looking to repeat as Olympic champions after dominant win in 2022.
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