The Road to Milano-Cortina ‘26 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

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Silver medal for Zoe Atkin in the Ski Halfpipe in China behind the inevitable Eileen Gu.

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Excellent skeleton results so far this season. 5 golds and 9 medals from 9 races. The men are racing tomorrow, but the Women now have a short Christmas break before the season resumes in Winterberg in Germany on January 2nd.

 

On the women's side, currently GB are occupying the second of the two slots for 3 Olympic qualifiers, which would be an amazing achievement given the men's squad have been comparatively stronger the last olympic cycle.

 

The way the qualifying system works is the top two nations with the 3rd highest ranked athlete are allocated 3 quotas.  are almost certainly going to take one of those slots, leaving GB in a battle to secure the second.

 

Currently GB's 3rd ranked athlete is Freya Tarbit in 12th on 488 points.

The 's 3rd best is on 440 in 19th, although I believe she has more minor races counting towards her ranking which should be outweighed by world cup points.

 no 3 is ranked 26th on 348.

 

Behind that the competition drops off rather steeply.

 

GB are in a good position and I hope they take all 3 quotas, as all 3 athletes are capable of medalling on their day. I will note however, that the next tracks are much more drivers tracks, so the start boost of the British athletes may not be a beneficial, but the same will be of the Chinese and Americans.