By Martyn Herman BORMIO, Italy, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Mexican Alpine skier Lasse Gaxiola will have his mother for company on his Olympic debut but she will not be cheering him from the finish area in Saturday's giant slalom in Bormio because she will be three hours away preparing her own race.

The men’s and women’s cross-country skiing sprint classic finals of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics take place on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026 at the Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium.

Crystal Mountain will reduce night skiing hours through the end of the season and cancel night skiing from Feb. 16 to 18.

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Lindsey Vonn’s defiant bid to win the Winter Olympic downhill at the age of 41, on a rebuilt right knee and a badly injured left knee, ended Sunday in a frightening crash that left her with a broken leg and saw her taken to safety by a rescue helicopter for the second time in nine days.

NBC's drone cameras amaze Olympic fans during skiing, snowboarding, luge and more; sound annoys some originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. During the earliest events of the 2026 Winter Olympics, viewers of the NBC family of channels may notice small drones whirring around.

Dave Powers, known to his friends as Guru Dave or just plain Goo, has been around long enough to know that things come and go, dry seasons follow wet ones, and with snowmaking and grooming getting better every year, there’s no need to think ski hills are about to become an endangered species.

In a thrilling day of global competition today, Team USA captured headlines with standout performances at the 2026 Winter Olympics, highlighted by their success all over the ice. Curling, women’s hockey,