Singapore will be represented by Alpine skier Faiz Basha at the Milano-Cortina Games. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics’ early events continued on day -1 ahead of Friday's opening ceremony. After opening the games on day -2 as the first event to start competitive play, curling continued with wins for the U.

Despite more than an hour delay for fog, Lindsey Vonn cleared a major hurdle before Sunday’s Olympic women’s downhill with a successful training run in Cortina on Friday, exactly one week after she tore the ACL in her left knee and was airlifted off a mountain in Switzerland.

Americans who top the podium at the Milan Cortina Games will be in line for a $37,500 bonus. Their competitors could collect as much as $800,000.

Olympic athletes are not paid by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), but are instead paid by their respective countries. The IOC, instead, redistributes its funding to the development of sporting activity around the world, according to CNN.