We are 16 days away from the Opening Ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics!

Although the world's festivities begin on February 6, the Winter Games begin the day before for some athletes, including curling and women’s ice hockey.

Speaking of curling, I recently visited the Granite Curling Club in Seattle.

In today’s edition of GMD, we’ll give you an overview of the athletes qualified to represent Team USA in Italy next month.

As the Gold Medal Dispatch (GMD) continues on, we will also highlight Black athletes qualified across all federations.

In today’s Newsletter:

Here are the U.S. athletes qualified by sport:

Alpine Skiing: Paula Moltzan, Nina O’Brien, Mikaela Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn, Ryan Cochran-Siegle, River Radamus, Ryder Sarchett

Biathlon: Luci Anderson, Margie Freed, Deedra Irwin, Joanne Reid, Sean Doherty, Maxime Germain, Paul Schommer, Campbell Wright

Bobsled: Azaria Hill, Kaillie Humphries, Jasmine Jones, Kaysha Love, Elana Meyers Taylor, Jadin O’Brien, Frank Del Duca, Caleb Furnell, Kris Horn, Boone Niederhofer, Hunter Powell, Bryan Sosoo, Carsten Vissering, Josh Williamson

Cross-Country Skiing: Jessie Diggins

Curling: Cory Thiesse (mixed doubles, team), Korey Dropkin (mixed doubles), Taylor Anderson-Heide (team), Tabitha Peterson (team), Tara Peterson (team), Aileen Geving (team, alternate), Danny Casper (team), Aidan Oldenburg (team), Ben Richardson (team), Luc Violette (team), Rich Ruohonen (team, alternate)

Figure Skating: Amber Glenn (singles), Isabeau Levito (singles), Alysa Liu (singles), Ilia Malinin (singles), Maxim Naumov (singles), Andrew Torgashev (singles), Emily Chan (pairs), Ellie Kam (pairs), Spencer Howe (pairs), Danny O’Shea (pairs), Christina Carreira (ice dance), Madison Chock (ice dance), Emilea Zingas (ice dance), Evan Bates (ice dance), Anthony Ponomarenko (ice dance), Vadym Kolesnik (ice dance)

Freestyle Skiing: Kaila Kuhn (aerials), Winter Vinecki (aerials), Quinn Dehlinger (aerials), Chris Lillis (aerials), Svea Irving (halfpipe), Alex Ferreira (halfpipe), Nick Goepper (halfpipe), Hunter Hess (halfpipe), Tess Johnson (moguls), Jaelin Kauf (moguls), Liz Lemley (moguls), Nick Page (moguls), Marin Hamill (slopestyle/big air), Mac Forehand (slopestyle/big air), Alex Hall (slopestyle/big air), Troy Podmilsak (slopestyle/big air)

Women’s & Men’s Hockey: Cayla Barnes, Hannah Bilka, Alex Carpenter, Kendall Coyne-Schofield, Britta Curl-Salemme, Joy Dunner, Laila Edwards, Aerin Frankel, Rory Guilday, Caroline Harvey, Taylor Heise, Tessa Janecke, Megan Keller, Hilary Knight, Ava McNaughton, Abbey Murphy, Kelly Pannek, Gwyneth Philips, Hayley Scamurra, Kirsten Simms, Lee Stecklein, Haley Winn, Grace Zumwinkle Matt Boldy, Kyle Connor, Jack Eichel, Brock Faber, Jake Guentzel, Noah Hanifin, Connor Hellebuyck, Jack Hughes, Quinn Hughes, Seth Jones, Clayton Keller, Dylan Larkin, Auston Matthews, Charlie McAvoy, J.T. Miller, Brock Nelson, Jake Oettinger, Jake Sanderson, Jaccob Slavin, Jeremy Swayman, Tage Thomson, Brady Tkachuk, Matthew Tkachuk, Vincent Trocheck, Zach Werenski

Luge: Summer Britcher (singles), Emily Fischnaller (singles), Ashley Farquharson (singles), Chevonne Forgan (doubles), Sophia Kirkby (doubles), Matt Greiner (singles), Jonny Gustafson (singles), Zack DiGregorio (doubles), Ansel Haugsjaa (doubles), Sean Hollander (doubles), Marcus Mueller (doubles)

Short Track Speed Skating: Eunice Lee, Julie Letai, Kamryn Lute, Kristen Santos-Griswold, Corinne Stoddard, Clayton DeClemente, Andrew Heo, Brandon Kim

Skeleton: Kelly Curtis, Mystique Ro, Dan Barefoot, Austin Florian

Ski Mountaineering: Anna Gibson, Cam Smith

Snowboarding: Chloe Kim (halfpipe), Jake Canter (big air/slopestyle), Red Gerard (big air/slopestyle)

Speed Skating: Giorgia Birkeland, Brittany Bowe, Erin Jackson, Mia Manganello, Greta Myers, Sarah Warren, Ethan Cepuran, Casey Dawson, Emery Lehman, Conor McDermott-Mostowy, Cooper McLeod, Jordan Stolz, Zach Stoppelmoor

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