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.
A Tokyo Olympics volunteer helped an athlete find his way, setting the stage for an unforgettable gold metal moment.
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.
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 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina are set to begin on Feb. 6, and will run until Feb. 22. The Winter Paralympic Games will then begin on March 6 and will run until March 15. Italy will be hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics for the third time, with Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo as the official hosts of the event.
The U.S. got three ice skating picks for the Milan Games, and Carreira and Ponomarenko were announced as the final team. Carreira, originally from Canada, and Ponomarenko, 25, who calls Michigan home, won the bronze medal at the 2026 U.S. Championships. Luckily, Carreira got her U.S. citizenship in time to go to Milan!
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New Olympic sport ‘skimo’ debuting at the Milan Cortina Games
There are penalties in the race for things such as disrespectful behavior, unsportsmanlike conduct, technical errors and equipment that’s missing
MILAN — Olympic organizers are “100%” confident the NHL won’t pull out of the Milan Cortina Games with the new ice hockey arena finally ready. Or almost.
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.