Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin & alpine skiing's Olympic return to the Italian Alps

For the first time in four Winter Olympic cycles, alpine skiing is making a return to some of its most famed downhill tracks. Tucked in the Italian Dolomites, Cortina (women) and Bormio (men) will host Milano Cortina 2026's downhill competitions. In this episode, Nick McCarvel is joined by Olympics.com skiing expert Alessandro Poggi to break down just what that means to the athletes ahead of February. Nick and Ales also discuss some of the biggest storylines of the alpine skiing Olympic season, and then turn the episode over to the athletes, with exclusive interviews featuring American superstars Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, Brazil's trailblazer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway.

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Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin & alpine skiing's Olympic return to the Italian Alps is an episode from Olympic Channel Podcast by Olympics.com.

This episode is 01:10:25 long.

This episode was published on Nov 26, 2025.

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