Workforce USA Olympians to observe at 2026 Winter Olympics

Round 2,900 prime athletes from world wide converged on Italy to participate within the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, hoping to convey residence medals throughout 116 occasions. 

Olympians from Workforce USA have gained a complete of 330 Winter Olympic medals by means of Beijing 2022 — second solely to winter sports activities powerhouse Norway. This yr, Workforce USA is bringing round 230 athletes to the Winter Olympics, which run from Feb. 6 to Feb. 22. 

These are a number of the American athletes to observe. 

Alex Ferreira

That is freestyle skier Alex Ferreira’s third journey to the Olympics. Ferreira took residence silver at PyeongChang in 2018 and a bronze medal in Beijing in 2022. 

“It is superior representing Workforce USA, as a result of I have a look at us and I feel we’re one of the best crew on this planet, after which it is particular,” Ferreira lately informed CBS Information. “It is a huge deal to Workforce USA, to convey residence a medal for America and on your city, on your state, on your nation. It is large.”

If he could not compete in his Olympic sport, Ferreira stated he’d compete in both monitor and discipline or trampoline.

The 31-year-old athlete, who began snowboarding at age 3 and started competing at 10, specializes within the halfpipe. His first competitors was an aerials occasion, which his mom enrolled him in with out informing him, in keeping with Workforce USA. He is additionally medaled on the Winter X Video games. Throughout the 2023-2024 season, Ferreira swept 5 world cups, X Video games Aspen and the Dew Tour. Ferreira additionally skis underneath his alter ego, an older man who goes by the identify Hotdog Hans. 

Alex Corridor

Milano Cortina is 27-year-old freestyle skier Alex Corridor’s third journey to the Olympics. He made his debut on the PyeongChang Video games in South Korea in 2018. Corridor stated he has extra confidence now and a special outlook than he did then. 

“Going to get pleasure from a number of the smaller issues on the Olympics, not essentially the grandiose issues,” Corridor informed CBS Information.

He gained gold in slopestyle in Beijing in 2022, and earned gold in 4 completely different disciplines on the X Video games: huge air, slopestyle, knuckle huck and actual ski.

Corridor secured the silver medal in males’s slopestyle at this yr’s Olympics.

Corridor, who was born in Alaska to an Italian mother, spent greater than half of his life in Europe. He grew up only a few hours away from the place he’ll be competing. 

The skier stated he is wanting ahead to assembly with athletes from world wide and listening to their tales, one thing which ought to be simple for him since he speaks a number of languages, together with English, French, Italian and German.

Alysa Liu

Determine skater Alysa Liu, now 20 years previous and again from a shock retirement from the ice at 16, headed to the Olympics for her second time this yr. She was the youngest U.S. determine skating nationwide champion in historical past, profitable the title at age 13. She gained one other nationwide title at 14 earlier than taking a break from skating after the 2022 Olympics. 

The U.S. took residence gold within the determine skating crew competitors this yr, with Liu skating the quick program.

After her comeback to skating, Liu gained the ladies’s singles world title on the 2025 World Championships. Olympic males’s skating gold medalist Brian Boitano known as it “the largest comeback in sports activities historical past.”

Liu lately informed “60 Minutes” that as she prepares for the Olympics, she views herself as extra of an artist than an athlete.

“I view competitions extra as, like, a stage for performing,” she stated. 

Amber Glenn

Determine skater Amber Glenn, 26, made her Olympics debut simply weeks after profitable her third straight U.S. title. She’s the primary lady to take action since Michelle Kwan. 

The U.S. took residence gold within the determine skating crew competitors this yr, with Glenn taking over the ladies’s free skate. She’s additionally amongst American athletes who’ve been talking up in regards to the political scenario at residence.

Glenn informed CBS Information that being an Olympian is “an unimaginable alternative” as a result of she’d “get to be on the largest stage an athlete will be on, and I might have the ability to voice my beliefs and my opinions and my message.”

The skater has spent years advocating for psychological well being consciousness and the LGBTQ+ group; Glenn got here out as bisexual and pansexual in 2019.

“Once I got here out initially, I used to be terrified. I used to be scared it might have an effect on my scores or one thing, however I did not care,” she stated in a Workforce USA publish from 2024. “It was value it to see the quantity of younger individuals who felt extra snug of their environments on the rink, who really feel, ‘Oh, I am represented by her, and she or he’s one of many prime skaters.'”

Brittany Bowe

That is Florida speedskater Brittany Bowe’s fourth journey to the Olympics. The 37-year-old two-time Olympic bronze medalist focuses on lengthy monitor. She stated her earlier experiences within the Olympics have taught her to deal with the method.

“In years previous, it has been very easy to be outcome-oriented, and I’ve discovered that that does not work. That may be turn into actually debilitating in your preparation,” Bowe informed CBS Information. “The playing cards will fall as they are going to, and for me to only keep centered within the second, within the course of and be able to go when that gun goes off.”

Bowe carried the American flag through the opening ceremony of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.

“Being an Olympian is so essential to me as a result of it has given me the platform to encourage folks, to encourage folks, and it is also given me a possibility to dwell out my childhood dream,” Bowe stated. “It is given me a possibility to convey a complete squad of individuals alongside, and with the ability to take my household all world wide, for them to be part of it has been actually, actually significant.”

She was edged out on Monday within the 1,000 meters, ending in fourth. 

On Tuesday, Bowe and her teammates once more got here in fourth in girls’s crew pursuit. 

Caroline Harvey

As a 3-year-old beginner to ice hockey, Caroline Harvey informed her aunt she’d make the 2022 U.S. Olympic crew, in keeping with Workforce USA. Her childhood prediction got here true when she turned the youngest member of the crew and helped the U.S. earn a silver medal in Beijing. 

“Anytime you get to put on that crest and symbolize your nation, it is the largest honor, and with the ability to do it at an Olympic setting is simply one thing that’s unforgettable,” Harvey informed CBS Information.

The 23-year-old athlete was named one of the best defender on the 2024 and 2025 IIHF Ladies’s World Championships. She’s additionally a two-time NCAA champion for the Wisconsin Badgers. 

She’s hoping to take residence gold in Milano Cortina, however stated success is in the end “understanding we did all the things we might to achieve success in enjoying our crew recreation.”

The U.S. will tackle Canada within the gold medal recreation on Thursday at 1:10 p.m. ET. 

Corinne Stoddard 

Milano Cortina is a 24-year-old skater Corinne Stoddard’s second journey to the Olympics. 

She went to Beijing in 2022, the place she broke her nostril throughout her very first race, in keeping with  Workforce USA. Stoddard competed in the remainder of her races whereas unable to breathe out of 1 nostril. 

This yr, Stoddard crashed through the girls’s 500m. Her fall took down a number of of her opponents. She later informed NBC the softer ice situation is healthier suited to determine skating, not velocity skating. The American nonetheless has three occasions to go and informed WBIR that her crew might want to make changes.

Stoddard began curler skating in kindergarten, then switched to inline skating a yr later. When she was 11, she started velocity skating. Whereas Stoddard doesn’t but have any Olympic medals, she’s a three-time world medalist briefly monitor speedskating.

The skater stated she’s dreamed of the Olympics since she was a baby, which required lots of onerous work alongside the best way.

“I’d all the time have coaching day by day after college, so there wasn’t a lot time for like, play dates or sleepovers rising up,” she informed CBS Information. “There wasn’t a lot time as, like, a teen, to exit with associates on the weekends. After which for my final two years of highschool, I did on-line after I moved out to Salt Lake to start out coaching with the nationwide crew, so I did not get to do any of, like the standard like, promenade and stuff like that. However to me, that is all value it.”

Deedra Irwin

Deedra Irwin grew up eager to be an Olympian, however she was enthusiastic about the Summer season Olympics, not the Winter Olympics. 

“I needed to be an Olympic monitor star. I had no thought the Winter Olympics had been a factor,” Irwin informed CBS Information. 

The 33-year-old athlete picked up snowboarding in highschool as a strategy to keep in form between the autumn cross-country season and the spring monitor and discipline season, in keeping with Workforce USA.  It wasn’t till she was 25 that she began taking part in biathlon. 

She went to the 2022 Beijing Olympics, the place she completed seventh, one of the best end ever for an American in a person biathlon occasion on the Olympics.

“We have educated a lot all through our lives to only get to this stage,” Irwin stated. “And so I feel for me, it means lots of, like, group and household and associates. I do not bear in mind the final time I used to be residence for Christmas previously, like, eight years.”

Erin Jackson

Gold medalist speedskater Erin Jackson, 33, is making her third Olympic look — and this yr, together with bobsledder Frank Del Duca, she additionally led Workforce USA as a flagbearer through the opening ceremony.

In 2022, Jackson turned the first Black lady to win gold in a person occasion on the Winter Olympics — after practically failing to make the crew that yr. 

Jackson slipped on the U.S. trials. Teammate Bowe, who certified for the five hundred, 1,000 and 1,5000-meter races at trials, gave up her spot within the 500-meter race to make sure Jackson would get to skate in Beijing.

“Every of my Olympic appearances have been tremendous completely different, identical to coming in in any respect completely different phases of my profession, and this one coming in because the reigning champion, there’s going to be lots of strain, however that is what I am wanting ahead to,” Jackson informed CBS Information.

Jackson first began ice skating shortly earlier than her first journey to the Olympics. She first stepped onto an ice rink in 2016. Jackson spent years inline skating earlier than that.

“I am simply tremendous grateful to have the ability to skate in circles for a dwelling, and I simply wish to preserve doing it so long as I can,” she stated. 

Jackson participated within the 1,000 meters on Monday, briefly holding the lead, earlier than ending in sixth.

Hilary Knight

Ice hockey participant Hilary Knight, 36, has been to the Olympics 4 occasions and has medaled every time, taking residence a gold and three silver medals. Milano Cortino is her fifth Olympics. 

“And by no means would I’ve imagined with the ability to compete in 5 Olympic Video games,” she informed CBS Information. “I imply, that is simply, that is loopy in the easiest way.”

Knight, throughout a preliminary spherical recreation in opposition to Canada on Feb. 10, tied the all-time U.S. girls’s hockey report for many Olympic factors. The 5-0 recreation was the most important margin of victory ever within the U.S.-Canada Olympic hockey rivalry, in keeping with Workforce USA.

Ice hockey play has turn into lots quicker through the years, Knight stated.

“It is much more technical, tactical. There’s extra of a dynamic, skillful degree to it as nicely, and the visibility is ever rising, which is basically thrilling,” she stated. 

Knight performed a key position in creating the Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League.

Ilia Malinin

Determine skater Ilia Malinin confronted excessive expectations as he made his Olympic debut. The 21-year-old, referred to as the “Quad God,” is the primary athlete to efficiently land every of the six sorts of quadruple jumps in a single program. 

His robust efficiency helped lead the American skaters to a gold medal within the crew occasion, however he fell quick within the particular person competitors.

Malinin had the lead after the lads’s singles quick program on Feb. 10, however within the free skate on Feb. 13, he fell twice and didn’t nail a few of his most difficult deliberate jumps, ending up off the rostrum in eighth place.

In accordance with Workforce USA, Malinin eats a chocolate bar earlier than every competitors.

Malinan, whose mother and father had been Olympic determine skaters for Uzbekistan and whose grandfather was a determine skater for the us, began skating at 6.

He gained gold at each the 2024 and 2025 ISU Determine Skating World Championships.

See Malinan’s interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” right here.

Jaelin Kauf

That is freestyle skier Jaelin Kauf’s third journey to the Olympics. The 29-year-old focuses on moguls and twin moguls, the latter of which made its debut on the Olympics this yr — one thing Kauf stated she’s been ready a very long time for. 

“It is simply such an thrilling sport,” she informed CBS Information. “I’ve most likely excelled in that traditionally greater than singles, and so it will simply be actually cool to be part of that on the Olympic stage, being part of that debut.” 

Kauf earned silver medals in each of her occasions this yr.

Each of Kauf’s mother and father had been skilled mogul skiers.

“My mother has all the time been my greatest hero and position mannequin, simply watching how she’s simply gone at life and carried out what she’s carried out, pushing the boundaries,” Kauf stated. 

Jordan Stolz

Speedskater Jordan Stolz, 21, began skating on the pond behind his household’s residence after watching Apolo Ohno and Shani Davis within the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, in keeping with Workforce USA. 

Now he isn’t solely becoming a member of their ranks as a gold medalist, he additionally set Olympic data within the 1,000-meter and 500-meter with occasions of 1:06.28 and 33.77 seconds, respectively. 

He made his Olympic debut in 2022. Stolz specializes within the 500-meter, 1,000-meter and 1,500-meter. He turned the world champion in all three classes on the ISU Single Distance World Championships in 2023 and once more in 2024. 

Stolz additionally skates professionally for the Dutch crew, Albert Heijn Zaanlander. Speedskating is a widely-followed sport within the Netherlands, and Stolz stated he hopes to convey extra consciousness to speedskating within the U.S.  

“It is clearly not going to be as a lot as it’s in Holland. I want it was however perhaps sometime it is going to be, however at the least I can do some bit,” Stolz informed CBS Information.

Kendall Coyne Schofield

Milano Cortina will probably be ice hockey participant Kendall Coyne Schofield’s fourth journey to the Olympics. She beforehand took residence a gold and two silvers. 

“I am simply so excited to really feel revived by means of these video games with household, associates, followers, pleasure, simply power, all of the issues that we weren’t capable of expertise in Beijing as a result of [of] the pandemic,” Coyne Schofield informed CBS Information. 

This will even be the 33-year-old athlete’s first Olympics as a mother, one thing that she stated has made her a greater hockey participant. 

“It is put my life into perspective,” she stated. “It is supplied me with [an] abundance of persistence that I did not have beforehand.”

Her son chants “USA, USA,” whether or not the crew wins or loses, she stated. 

Off the ice, Coyne Schofield voiced a hockey announcer within the Pixar film “Inside Out 2.”

Korey Dropkin

That is 30-year-old roller Korey Dropkin’s first journey to the Olympics, although he is been curling for many of his life. 

“It is a household sport. Truthfully, it is like faith to me,” Dropkin informed CBS Information. “I grew up on the curling membership. My mother and father had been tremendous concerned with a junior program at our curling membership. My brother was 5 years older. He was already curling. I {followed} in his footsteps. I used to be like his shadow.”

After graduating from highschool, Dropkin moved to Duluth, Minnesota, which has turn into the U.S. curling capital.

“I’ve devoted my entire life to attending to the Olympics and hopefully medaling on the Olympics,” he stated. “I moved myself and relocated and actually devoted lots of blood, sweat and tears. So being an Olympian, lastly, I have been shut, and now lastly realizing the Olympics is only a huge dream come true.”

Alongside Cory Thiesse, Dropkin delivered Workforce USA’s first-ever medal in blended doubles curling, taking residence silver.

Kristen Santos-Griswold

Speedskater Kristen Santos-Griswold, 31, virtually selected to not go to this yr’s Olympics after heartbreak in 2022. She was in bronze medal place with simply two laps to go within the 1,000-meter when a bump by an opponent prompted her to fall. The bump was later dominated a penalty, however the disheartening end had Santos-Griswold contemplating retirement. 

“Once I determined that I used to be going to maintain going, I used to be like, ‘All proper, I am doing it for me. I will make all of it value it. I will benefit from the journey,” Santos-Griswold informed CBS Information. “I feel that is simply helped to, like, catapult me into going into Olympic yr with primary on my helmet.” 

This yr, she missed out on the 1,000-meter quick monitor velocity skating semifinals by simply .034 seconds and in addition didn’t make the ultimate within the 500-meter.

Santos-Griswold has been coaching for many of her life. She began determine skating at 3. When she was 9, Santos-Griswold noticed speedskating in a business on TV, determined she needed to strive it, and fell in love. 

“Being an Olympian means all the things,” she stated. “It is one thing that I have been working in the direction of my complete life. I began skating after I was 3 years previous, and I am 30 now, so strong 27 years of dreaming about this.”

Santos-Griswold is presently engaged on a doctorate, with plans to be a bodily therapist as soon as her skating profession is over, in keeping with Workforce USA.

Lindsey Vonn

Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, who made a comeback a number of years after retiring, was decided to compete in her fifth Olympics — regardless of a current damage on the slopes that left her with a ruptured ACL. However the effort resulted in a crash simply seconds into her downhill race, with Vonn being airlifted off the mountain in entrance of shocked spectators. (Teammate Breezy Johnson went on to win the gold.)

The 41-year-old Vonn beforehand competed on the Olympics in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2018, taking residence gold and two silver medals.

In an announcement posted to social media a day after her crash at Milano Cortina, Vonn urged others to attempt to obtain their desires, even when they do not pan out.

“I hope for those who take away something from my journey it is that you simply all have the braveness to dare enormously,” she wrote. “Life is just too quick to not take probabilities on your self. As a result of the one failure in life shouldn’t be making an attempt.”

Vonn is the one American lady to win Olympic gold in downhill, in keeping with Workforce USA, and she or he additionally has essentially the most victories by any skier — male or feminine — in a single self-discipline. 

Vonn began snowboarding at 3. She discovered along with her father and grandfather, each of whom had been aggressive skiers, and made her Olympic debut at 17. She retired in 2019 amid extreme knee injury. Vonn has since had knee surgical procedure and informed CBS Information she’s now the strongest she’s been in her profession. 

“The one factor I feel that is perhaps more difficult at 41 is simply the grind of being away,” she stated. “I form of bought used to being at residence with my canine and my household, and I bought away from, you understand, the routine of being on the highway, which does not essentially change due to age, simply, I feel, extra from being away from the game for six years.”

In 2022, John Clarey, then 41, made historical past because the oldest alpine skier to medal at an Olympic Winter Video games. Vonn stated her age will not cease her from competing on the coming Olympics. 

“If I’ve the chance to compete, I will,” Vonn stated. “Simply because I am 41 doesn’t suggest I am unable to do this if I bodily really feel good, which I do, I really feel higher now than I did in my 20s. So you understand, I do not see there to be any cause why I am unable to do it at 41.”

Every week earlier than the beginning of the Video games, Vonn crashed in certainly one of her ultimate downhill tune-ups. Whereas she was airlifted off the mountain to obtain medical remedy after injuring her left knee, she assured her followers on social media that her Olympic dream was “not over.”

“It is a very tough end result one week earlier than the Olympics… but when there’s one factor I understand how to do, it is a comeback,” she wrote.

“I am not letting this slip by means of my fingers. I am gonna do it. Finish of story,” she stated. 

Madison Chock and Evan Bates

Ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates are again for one more the Olympics — and so they set a excessive bar from the beginning, scoring a world-best 91.06 factors in rhythm dance because the competitors started on Feb. 6. 

Chock, 33, competed in 2014, 2018 and 2022, whereas Bates, 36, started his Olympic run in 2010. 

Their partnership started in 2011, and so they gained Olympic gold through the crew occasion at their third Olympic Video games. The duo helped Workforce USA win its second consecutive gold within the crew occasion at Milano Cortina 2026, triumphing in each the rhythm dance and the free dance.

Chock and Bates got here in because the favorites to win particular person Olympic gold within the Winter Video games, however they had been edged out by the French duo within the free dance on Feb. 11 to take silver as an alternative.

“There’s a lot satisfaction behind it,” Chock informed CBS Information. “I feel rising up and seeing different athletes symbolize Workforce USA meant lots and formed lots of how I view sport and athleticism, and there is a lot satisfaction that comes with representing your nation within the Olympic Video games on the largest stage for sports activities on this planet. And it is simply been the best honor of my life to be a member of Workforce USA.”

Chock and Bates have additionally gained three consecutive ISU World Determine Skating Championships, beginning in 2023.

They’re companions off the ice, too. The couple bought married in 2024.

Maxim Naumov

Determine skater Maxim Naumov made his first look on the Olympics after a yr marked by tragedy and an emotional comeback.

His journey to the Olympics comes a yr after his mother and father, former world champions Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, died when their aircraft collided with a army helicopter on method to Washington, D.C. His mother and father, who had been fashionable coaches on the Skating Membership of Boston, had been amongst 67 folks killed within the crash. 

Naumov delivered an emotional skate on Feb. 10. “Mother and Dad, that is for you,” was projected on the large display overhead earlier than he began his quick program. Naumov held a photograph of his mother and father as he awaited his rating, simply as he did on the U.S. Determine Skating Championships in January.

“Having position fashions be proper there in the home, on the rink, simply in every single place, they impressed me to need this dream and it might imply completely all the things for me to be on the Olympics,” Naumov stated in a social media publish. “I am working as onerous as I probably can and I am doing all the things in my energy to take action. Doing it for them can be much more lovely.”

Naumov in the end ended up in twentieth place. 

Mikaela Shiffrin

Skier Mikaela Shiffrin, 30, headed to the Olympics for the fourth time. She first skied within the Olympics in 2013 and has beforehand earned two gold medals and a silver. She picked up one other gold in slalom on the Milano-Corina Video games.

Shiffrin focuses on slalom, large slalom, super-G and downhill. She’s the primary alpine skier to report 100 FIS World Cup wins and the primary athlete in FIS Ski World Cup historical past to win in all six disciplines.

In 2024, Shiffrin crashed after shedding management whereas on the course for the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics. Then final yr, she stated she was coping with post-traumatic stress dysfunction from one other crash, throughout which she suffered a puncture wound and extreme trauma to her indirect muscle tissues.

Mystique Ro

Skeleton racer Mystique Ro, 31, headed to the Olympics for the primary time, however she’s no stranger to competitors. 

Ro competed in monitor & discipline. Then, in 2016, she was invited to a rookie camp by USA Bobsled/Skeleton. Coaches there informed her she was a bit small for bobsled and pushed her to strive skeleton.

Throughout skeleton, racers on sleds — head first and face down — can attain speeds of round 80 miles per hour, utilizing physique shifts to information the sled by means of the course. 

“When you get away from the concern, it begins to turn into a recreation,” Ro informed CBS Information. “So for those who get previous the concern, that is step one, after which you possibly can form of benefit from the sport for what it’s.”

Whereas loads of youngsters journey sleds down hills, Row stated this is not the identical. 

“The velocity is considerably quicker, and there is much more peril concerned for those who’re not ready for it,” she stated. 

She made her FIL World Cup debut in 2023 and, the next yr, turned the primary American athlete to win a skeleton race on the World Cup circuit in eight years. 

In her Olympic debut, Ro positioned fifteenth in girls’s skeleton and seventh in blended crew skeleton, together with teammate Austin Florian. 

Nick Goepper

Milano Cortina is skier Nick Goepper’s fourth journey to the Olympics. In 2014, he took bronze in Sochi, contributing to a U.S. podium sweep in males’s slopestyle snowboarding. Goepper gained silver on the Olympics in 2018 and once more in 2022. 

“To me, being an Olympian has meant legacy,” he informed CBS Information. “I’m an enormous fan of historical past. I really like studying about individuals who have carried out, you understand, wonderful issues and household connections and identical to, you understand, folks’s eyes all the time gentle up if you discuss in regards to the Olympics.”

The 31-year-old athlete retired after Beijing, however then returned lower than a yr later to compete in halfpipe as an alternative of slopestyle. 

Goepper stated his method to competitors and the Olympics has modified through the years. 

“I can sit again and benefit from the little moments a bit bit extra. I can savor issues a bit extra, which is good,” he stated.

Paula Moltzan

Alpine skier Paula Moltzan made her Olympic debut in 2022.

“I really feel like I discovered lots in my first Olympics, and so to take all these classes discovered into one other alternative would imply lots to me,” she informed CBS Information. 

These classes took her to an Olympic podium this yr. She gained bronze alongside Jackie Wiles within the girls’s crew mixed.

Moltzan, now 31, gained the junior world slalom title when she was 20, changing into the primary American lady to win the occasion on the junior world championships. She additionally gained the NCAA girls’s slalom title as a freshman on the College of Vermont.

After her Olympics debut in Beijing at 27, Moltzan turned a two-time world medalist. She gained a title within the parallel crew occasion in 2023 and her first particular person world medal, a bronze, in large slalom in 2025.

She stated her household sacrificed lots to help her snowboarding profession. 

“I feel they took second mortgages out on my home to permit me to compete in sport. After which my siblings as nicely, I positively had the precedence due to my athletic capacity. They gave up perhaps smaller moments, like going to summer time camp so I might go to ski camp,” she stated. “However it all turns into value it if you’re there together with your crew, representing Workforce USA.”

Purple Gerard

That is Purple Gerard’s third journey to the Olympics. The 25-year-old snowboarder gained gold in slopestyle in 2018 when he was simply 17, changing into the youngest American snowboarder to realize the feat, in keeping with Workforce USA.  

“I rapidly discovered that first Olympics how huge it’s and the way cool it’s,” Gerard informed CBS Information. “Ever since, you simply form of wish to get again on that stage as a result of there isn’t a stage larger than the Olympics.”

Gerard returned to the Olympics in 2022, ending fourth in slopestyle and fifth in huge air. The snowboarder gained in slopestyle on the 2024 and 2025 X Video games.

Gerard began snowboarding when he was simply 2 years previous. In 2007, his household moved to Colorado, the place they constructed a snowboarding park of their yard to help Gerard’s ardour. 

Ryan Cochran-Siegle

Alpine skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle, 33, headed to the Olympics for his third Video games. Cochran-Siegle, the son of an Olympian, began snowboarding on the age of two. 

He tore his ACL and lateral meniscus in 2013 on the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships, in keeping with Workforce USA. 5 years later, he made his Olympic debut in 2018 in PyeongChang. Cochran-Siegle gained his first FIS World Cup Race in 2020, however missed the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships in 2021 with a fractured neck. 

The skier got here again in 2022, the place he gained silver in super-G on the Beijing Video games. He was the one U.S. alpine snowboarding medalist on the Beijing Video games. 

This yr, he took residence silver within the males’s super-G in alpine snowboarding.

Cochran-Siegle informed CBS Information that in his earlier Olympic appearances, he discovered to embrace the second and to belief and imagine in himself. 

“Simply going on the market and doing what I really like and placing myself out there may be what’s essential,” he stated.