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Want to know what it takes to be a Winter Olympian? We catch up with three of Britain’s medal prospects as they get ready for Milan-Cortina 2026, one of the greatest shows on earth.

Much like seeing the first Easter eggs on the supermarket shelves in January, we’re already starting to look ahead to next season! Except here we hope our assault to the senses will be met with more ‘

ANOTHER OLYMPICS, ANOTHER SPORT to pique our curiosity. The Games seem to be perpetually expanding. On the wintry end of things, curling and snowboarding were added as medal events at the 1998 Nagano

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ATOP A SLOPE AT BANGER PARK IN SCHARNITZ, Austria, in July, freestyle skiers and snowboarders from a host of countries—Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine—have begun training in earnest for the upcomi