The Alpine Skiing Women’s Slalom Run Final is airing at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026 at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre.

Carve: A crisp turn referring to the technique used in Alpine ski racing. When carving, a skier turns their skis onto their edges, a metal strip fixed along the bottom of the ski, which can cut through ice or snow and allow skiers to perform precise turns necessary for a fast run on a race course.

By Sara Rossi CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Albanian skier Lara Colturi said on Wednesday she is confident that she can ski much better after finishing 10th in the women's slalom at the Winter Games and she could soon also compete in super-G.

The 2026 National Collegiate Skiing Championships will be relocated to Utah Olympic Park (Alpine) and the Soldier Hollow Nordic Center (Nordic) in Park City/Midway, Utah, on March 11-14. Utah will be the host school for the championship.

Sarah Schleper and Lasse Gaxiola made history as the first mother and son duo to compete at the same Winter Olympic games.

The two leading giant slalom racers of the season delivered a blunt verdict on the Olympic course on Sunday, with Switzerland’s Camille Rast saying the hill felt “like a junior race slope” after a race that left her and Austria’s Julia Scheib just outside the podium places.

Great Britain continue to battle it out in the curling round robin stage in the hunt for more medals at the Winter Olympics 2026. Team GB have their work cut out at Milano-Cortina though, with both the men and women requiring other results in the closing matches of the round robin to go their way in order to advance to the play-offs.

Gabriele Facciotti is an action and sports photographer born in Turin. He works with Pentaphoto, one of the main Italian and international photo agencies in the field of sports photography.