Which Athletes will you be rooting for at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics

[Josh 11,497]

Decided to start a thread on this early, and get some discussion 

 

When I mean athletes, I mean athletes from other countries mainly… but ones that represent your country work too 

Edited December 17, 2024 by Sindo

[Josh 11,497]

I’ll start first;

 

Obviously,  @brunamoura in cross country skiing if she qualifies  (no pressure) 

 

and  Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo.
 

Curling:  Team Hasselborg and Team Edin,  Kaldvee/Lill, and to a lesser extent  Team Fujisawa and  Team Schwaller

Ice Hockey:  Elias Pettersson/Elias Lindholm,  Pius Suter,  Arturs Silovs/Teddy Blueger, whichever Canucks are on  United States’ men’s team,  Filip Hronek and  Finland’s men’s team if Lankinen can keep up his good play (Even though he’s probably going to get traded from the Canucks after this season, he prefers being on a team where he can get more starts than more money. Still I have a soft spot for him)

Alpine Skiing:  Marco Odermatt,  Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde,  AJ Ginnis, Joan Verdu and to a slightly lesser extent  Johannes Strolz

Freestyle Skiing:  Jakara Anthony,  Birk Ruud,  Sina Sigenthaler,  Ryan Regez,  Kelly Sildaru (for more reasons than one),  Eileen Gu

Snowboarding:  Leon Ulbricht,  Marcus Kleveland,  Anna Gasser,  Benjamin Karl/Andreas Prommegger,  Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

Ski Mountaineering:  Oriol Cardona Coll and that’s it for now… 

Bobsleigh:  Kaysha Love

Short Track:  Robert Kruzbergs

Speed Skating:  Jutta Leerdam,  Jordan Stolz,  Marten Liiv,  Bart Swings

Luge:  Thomas Steu/Wolfgang Kindl,  Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt

 

From a Canadian perspective, I’m rooting for our men’s hockey team above all. Then, our curling teams, especially Team Homan if she wins Olympic Trials. Then Max Parrot, Mikael Kingsbury, Eliot Grondin, William Dandjinou, our women’s hockey team, and our ski cross squad. But really I’ll be rooting for all of our athletes. 
 

I like Hammerle, but I’ll be rooting against him at the Olympics 

Edited December 9, 2024 by Josh

[rafalgorka 1,808]

Too many to write them down just like that. But i will try to make a list in a few days time. A really good idea for a new thread, Josh.

Edited December 1, 2024 by rafalgorka

[rafalgorka 1,808]

But Bruna Moura for sure! No pressure, like you said , LOL. 
 

#TeamMoura 

Edited December 1, 2024 by rafalgorka

[Josh 11,497]

Anyone?

[rafalgorka 1,808]

Usually - if no Polish athletes involved - I root for French athletes. But not always. More details soon.

[rafalgorka 1,808]

Some early thoughts:

 

ALPINE SKIING

 

W

Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel

Magdalena Łuczak

Sofia Goggia

Petra Vlhova

Katharina Liensberger

Camille Rast

Wendy Holdener

Clarisse Breche

Lara Gut-Behrami

Mikaela Shiffrin

 

M

Clement Noel

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen

Henrik Kristoffersen

Atle Lie McGrath

Cyprien Sarrazin

Jan Zabystran

Alexis Pinturault

Dominik Paris

Joan Verdu

AJ Ginnis

Fabian Ax Swartz

 

[Dkats 298]

For   Scotty James

Has been around for many years now and is much loved here in Australia and obviously has incredible talent. 
World champs wins, X games wins, an Olympic silver and bronze but he is just missing that elusive Olympic gold. 
 

I am looking forward to seeing how he goes again as I can’t think of another athlete in my country who is more deserving right now. 🙂

[Josh 11,497]

On 11/30/2024 at 9:32 PM, Josh said:

I’ll start first;

 

Obviously,  @brunamoura in cross country skiing if she qualifies  (no pressure) 

 

and  Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo.
 

Curling:  Team Hasselborg and Team Edin,  Kaldvee/Lill, and to a lesser extent  Team Fujisawa and  Team Schwaller

Ice Hockey: All Vancouver Canucks players and Lindholm, but particularly the  men’s team (assuming we’re not playing them of course)

Alpine Skiing:  Marco Odermatt,  Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde,  AJ Ginnis, Joan Verdu and to a slightly lesser extent  Johannes Strolz

Freestyle Skiing:  Jakara Anthony,  Birk Ruud,  Ryan Regez,  Kelly Sildaru & Christina Födermayr (for more reasons than one…),   Eileen Gu

Snowboarding:  Leon Ulbricht,  Lucas Eguibar, Marcus Kleveland,  Anna Gasser,  Benjamin Karl/Andreas Prommegger,  Zoi Sadowski-Synnott,  Sina Sigenthaler

Ski Mountaineering:  Oriol Cardona Coll and that’s it for now… 

Bobsleigh:  Kaysha Love

Short Track:  Robert Kruzbergs

Speed Skating:  Jutta Leerdam,  Jordan Stolz,  Marten Liiv,  Bart Swings

Luge:  Thomas Steu/Wolfgang Kindl,  Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt

 

From a Canadian perspective, I’m rooting for our men’s hockey team above all. Then, our curling teams, especially Team Homan if she wins Olympic Trials. Then Max Parrot, Mikael Kingsbury, Eliot Grondin, William Dandjinou, our women’s hockey team, and our ski cross squad. But really I’ll be rooting for all of our athletes. 
 

I like Hammerle/Wallberg, but I’ll be rooting against them at the Olympics 

Added some more names, this will pretty much be my final list. 

Edited December 21, 2024 by Josh

[Bailer 44]

As a Slovak, I'll probably cheer for Czechia and Finland in Ice Hockey :)