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

[Josh 10,654]

14 hours ago, Dkats said:

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. 🙂

Any non Australians? Or just Australians 

[Dkats 298]

6 hours ago, Josh said:

Any non Australians? Or just Australians 

My knowledge on other athletes for winter games is quite shallow unfortunately! 

[Josh 10,654]

Well this thread flopped horrifically…

[Speedy 98]

From my perspective, not counting all  athletes:

 

Alpine skiing

 Lucas Pinheiro Braathen

 Lara Colturi

 Zrinka Ljutić

 Alice Robinson 

 

Biathlon

 Marketa Davidova

 Dorothea Wierer

 Campbell Wright

 

Bobsleigh

 Brad Hall

 Jekabs Kalenda

 Breanna Walker 

 Andreea Grecu

 

Cross Country skiing

 Iivo Niskanen

 Ebba Andersson

 Jaume Pueyo

 Patricija Eiduka

 

Curling

 Mixed doubles

 Women

 Men

 

Figure Skating

 Metelkina/Berulava

 Yuma Kagiyama

 

Freestyle skiing

 Kelly Sildaru

 Simone Deromedis

 Jakara Anthony 

 Yuliya Galysheva

 

Ice hockey

 Men and Women

 

Luge

 Bots/Plume

 Madeleine Egle 

 

Nordic combined

 Kristjan Ilves

 Ilkka Herola

 

Short track

 Roberts Kruzbergs

 Hanne Desmet

 

Skeleton

 Matt Weston

 Marcus Wyatt

 Kim Meylemans

 Nicole Silveira

 

Ski jumping

 Nika Prevc

 Anze Lanisek

 Gregor Deschwanden

 Fatih Arda Ipcioglu

 Yevhen Marusiak

 Artti Aigro

 Valentin Foubert

 

Ski mountaineering 

 Oriol Cardona Coll

 

Snowboard 

 Claudia Riegler

 Cameron Bolton

 Lucas Eguibar

 Radoslav Yankov

 Tim Mastnak

Zan Kosir

 Scotty James

 Charlotte Banks

 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

 

Speed Skating

 Marten Liiv

 Bart Swings

 Nil Llop

 

[Grassmarket 3,448]

3 hours ago, Josh said:

Well this thread flopped horrifically…

Maybe just a bit premature.  Revive it this time next year.

[Josh 10,654]

10 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Maybe just a bit premature.  Revive it this time next year.

Too early to have favourites? Personally, I don’t think so. 

Edited 20 hours ago by Josh

[DJ Crimson Oracle 1]

I am rooting for Team Canada in Ice hockey and Team Austria in Ski jumping

[TeamGB 174]

TBH I just try to support European athletes where I can, but I do prefer some countries over others in certain sports.

 

 

 

Alpine Skiing -  

Biathlon -   

Bobsleigh -  

Cross Country Skiing - 

Curling -  

Figure Skating -   

Freestyle Skiing -  

Ice Hockey - 

Luge -  

Nordic Combined -  

Short Track Speed Skating -   

Skeleton -  

Ski Jumping -   

Ski Mountaineering -  

Snowboarding -   

Speed Skating -  

 

 

 

 

[Grassmarket 3,448]

On 12/21/2024 at 10:14 AM, Speedy said:

From my perspective, not counting all  athletes:

 

Alpine skiing

 Lucas Pinheiro Braathen

 Lara Colturi

 Zrinka Ljutić

 Alice Robinson 

 

Biathlon

 Marketa Davidova

 Dorothea Wierer

 Campbell Wright

 

Bobsleigh

 Brad Hall

 Jekabs Kalenda

 Breanna Walker 

 Andreea Grecu

 

Cross Country skiing

 Iivo Niskanen

 Ebba Andersson

 Jaume Pueyo

 Patricija Eiduka

 

Curling

 Mixed doubles

 Women

 Men

 

Figure Skating

 Metelkina/Berulava

 Yuma Kagiyama

 

Freestyle skiing

 Kelly Sildaru

 Simone Deromedis

 Jakara Anthony 

 Yuliya Galysheva

 

Ice hockey

 Men and Women

 

Luge

 Bots/Plume

 Madeleine Egle 

 

Nordic combined

 Kristjan Ilves

 Ilkka Herola

 

Short track

 Roberts Kruzbergs

 Hanne Desmet

 

Skeleton

 Matt Weston

 Marcus Wyatt

 Kim Meylemans

 Nicole Silveira

 

Ski jumping

 Nika Prevc

 Anze Lanisek

 Gregor Deschwanden

 Fatih Arda Ipcioglu

 Yevhen Marusiak

 Artti Aigro

 Valentin Foubert

 

Ski mountaineering 

 Oriol Cardona Coll

 

Snowboard 

 Claudia Riegler

 Cameron Bolton

 Lucas Eguibar

 Radoslav Yankov

 Tim Mastnak

Zan Kosir

 Scotty James

 Charlotte Banks

 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

 

Speed Skating

 Marten Liiv

 Bart Swings

 Nil Llop

 

Definitely agree with a lot of these.  In general, everyone from countries that don't have much of a tradition or many facilities, so would add people like

 

 Anthony Ferlazzo in Luge

 biathletes

 in everything

 Maloney-Westgaard in Cross country