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Even with their names already enshrined in the sport's history together, China's golden couple Xu Mengtao and Wang Xindi have refused to rest on their laurels.
A motto that captures the essence of the Paralympic spirit resonates deeply across the venues of the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Paralympic Games every day — just showing up is, itself, a victory.
The lone silhouette of a skier gliding down a mountain is, for many, the enduring image of winter sports. For visually impaired athletes, however, their experience on the snow is never lonely.
A relatively new prosthetic leg, a bruised face from falls during training, and a less-than-ideal starting position — all the odds seemed stacked against China's para snowboarder Wu Zhongwei as he entered his first final at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Paralympics on Sunday.
With the start of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics imminent, two-time Olympic champion freeskier Gu Ailing is once again preparing to step onto the world's biggest winter sports stage, this time guided as much by restraint as ambition.
With snow having settled deep across the Alps, blanketing the mountains of northern Italy in white, preparations for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games are entering their final stretch.
Italy's winter sports reputation has long been defined by Alpine skiing, but Livigno wants to seize the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to flip that script.
