Ski mountaineering - the only new Olympic sport at Milano Cortina 2026 - explained

There is set to be just one new sport added to the Olympic
programme for Milano Cortina 2026, but it is one with historic
roots in the Italian Alps.


Ski mountaineering will feature both a sprint and mixed relay
event in its Winter Olympic debut, and on this episode of the
podcast, host Nick McCarvel dives deep - or rather, scales the
mountain - to understand this fascinating sport, often set in the
most picturesque of outdoor courses.


Skimo stars Emily Harrop, Cameron Smith and Johanna Hiemer help
to explain the sport and its many challenges in exclusive
interviews on the pod, while Olympics.com producers
Nadine Regel, Guillaume Depasse and Annie Fast lay out the many
storylines to watch out for, including French superstar Thibault
Anselmet and the Spanish duo of Ana Alonso Rodriguez and Oriol
Cardonna Coll - among others.


You can explore skimo even more with the new Olympic Channel
documentary, Into the Unknown, which is out now exclusively
on Olympics.com.