Workforce USA Olympians to look at at 2026 Winter Olympics

Round 2,900 prime athletes from all over the world converged on Italy to participate within the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, hoping to convey dwelling medals throughout 116 occasions. 

Olympians from Workforce USA have received a complete of 330 Winter Olympic medals by way of Beijing 2022 — second solely to winter sports activities powerhouse Norway. This yr, Workforce USA is bringing round 230 athletes to the Winter Olympics, which run from Feb. 6 to Feb. 22. 

These are a number of the American athletes to look at.

Alex Ferreira

That is freestyle skier Alex Ferreira’s third journey to the Olympics. Ferreira took dwelling silver at PyeongChang in 2018 and a bronze medal in Beijing in 2022. 

“It is superior representing Workforce USA, as a result of I have a look at us and I feel we’re the perfect workforce on this planet, after which it is particular,” Ferreira not too long ago informed CBS Information. “It is a large deal to Workforce USA, to convey dwelling a medal for America and in your city, in your state, in your nation. It is large.”

If he could not compete in his Olympic sport, Ferreira stated he’d compete in both monitor and subject or trampoline.

The 31-year-old athlete, who began snowboarding at age 3 and started competing at 10, specializes within the halfpipe. His first competitors was an aerials occasion, which his mom enrolled him in with out informing him, in accordance with Workforce USA. He is additionally medaled on the Winter X Video games. In the course of the 2023-2024 season, Ferreira swept 5 world cups, X Video games Aspen and the Dew Tour. Ferreira additionally skis below his alter ego, an older man who goes by the identify Hotdog Hans.

Alex Corridor

Milano Cortina is 27-year-old freestyle skier Alex Corridor’s third journey to the Olympics. He made his debut on the PyeongChang Video games in South Korea in 2018. Corridor stated he has extra confidence now and a distinct outlook than he did then. 

“Going to take pleasure in a number of the smaller issues on the Olympics, not essentially the grandiose issues,” Corridor informed CBS Information.

He received gold in slopestyle in Beijing in 2022, and earned gold in 4 completely different disciplines on the X Video games: large air, slopestyle, knuckle huck and actual ski.

Corridor secured the silver medal in males’s slopestyle at this yr’s Olympics.

Corridor, who was born in Alaska to an Italian mother, spent greater than half of his life in Europe. He grew up just some hours away from the place he’ll be competing. 

The skier stated he is wanting ahead to assembly with athletes from all over the world and listening to their tales, one thing which ought to be simple for him since he speaks a number of languages, together with English, French, Italian and German.

Alysa Liu

Determine skater Alysa Liu, now 20 years previous and again from a shock retirement from the ice at 16, headed to the Olympics for her second time this yr. She was the youngest U.S. determine skating nationwide champion in historical past, successful the title at age 13. She received one other nationwide title at 14 earlier than taking a break from skating after the 2022 Olympics. 

The U.S. took dwelling gold within the determine skating workforce competitors this yr, with Liu skating the quick program.

After her comeback to skating, Liu received the ladies’s singles world title on the 2025 World Championships. Olympic males’s skating gold medalist Brian Boitano known as it “the most important comeback in sports activities historical past.”

Liu not too long ago informed “60 Minutes” that as she prepares for the Olympics, she views herself as extra of an artist than an athlete.

“I view competitions extra as, like, a stage for performing,” she stated. 

Amber Glenn

Determine skater Amber Glenn, 26, made her Olympics debut simply weeks after successful her third straight U.S. title. She’s the primary lady to take action since Michelle Kwan. 

The U.S. took dwelling gold within the determine skating workforce competitors this yr, with Glenn taking over the ladies’s free skate. She’s additionally amongst American athletes who’ve been talking up in regards to the political scenario at dwelling.

Glenn informed CBS Information that being an Olympian is “an unimaginable alternative” as a result of she’d “get to be on the most important stage an athlete may be on, and I might be capable to voice my beliefs and my opinions and my message.”

The skater has spent years advocating for psychological well being consciousness and the LGBTQ+ group; Glenn got here out as bisexual and pansexual in 2019.

“After I got here out initially, I used to be terrified. I used to be scared it could have an effect on my scores or one thing, however I did not care,” she stated in a Workforce USA submit from 2024. “It was price it to see the quantity of younger individuals who felt extra snug of their environments on the rink, who really feel, ‘Oh, I am represented by her, and he or she’s one of many prime skaters.'”

Brittany Bowe

That is Florida speedskater Brittany Bowe’s fourth journey to the Olympics. The 37-year-old two-time Olympic bronze medalist makes a speciality of lengthy monitor. She stated her earlier experiences within the Olympics have taught her to give attention to the method.

“In years previous, it has been very easy to be outcome-oriented, and I’ve discovered that that does not work. That may be change into actually debilitating in your preparation,” Bowe informed CBS Information. “The playing cards will fall as they are going to, and for me to only keep centered within the second, within the course of and be able to go when that gun goes off.”

Bowe carried the American flag in the course of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.

“Being an Olympian is so vital to me as a result of it has given me the platform to encourage individuals, to encourage individuals, and it is also given me a chance to dwell out my childhood dream,” Bowe stated. “It is given me a chance to convey an entire squad of individuals alongside, and with the ability to take my household all all over the world, for them to be part of it has been actually, actually significant.”

She was edged out on Monday within the 1,000 meters, ending in fourth. 

Caroline Harvey

As a 3-year-old beginner to ice hockey, Caroline Harvey informed her aunt she’d make the 2022 U.S. Olympic workforce, in accordance with Workforce USA. Her childhood prediction got here true when she grew to become the youngest member of the workforce and helped the U.S. earn a silver medal in Beijing. 

“Anytime you get to put on that crest and symbolize your nation, it is the most important honor, and with the ability to do it at an Olympic setting is simply one thing that’s unforgettable,” Harvey informed CBS Information.

The 23-year-old athlete was named the perfect defender on the 2024 and 2025 IIHF Ladies’s World Championships. She’s additionally a two-time NCAA champion for the Wisconsin Badgers. 

She’s hoping to take dwelling gold in Milano Cortina, however stated success is in the end “understanding we did every little thing we may to achieve success in enjoying our workforce sport.”

Corinne Stoddard 

Milano Cortina is 24-year-old skater Corinne Stoddard’s second journey to the Olympics. 

She went to Beijing in 2022, the place she broke her nostril throughout her very first race, in accordance with  Workforce USA. Stoddard competed in the remainder of her races whereas unable to breathe out of 1 nostril. 

This yr, Stoddard crashed in the course of the ladies’s 500m. Her fall took down a number of of her opponents. She later informed NBC the softer ice situation is healthier fitted to determine skating, not velocity skating. The American nonetheless has three occasions to go and informed WBIR that her workforce might want to make changes.

Stoddard began curler skating in kindergarten, then switched to inline skating a yr later. When she was 11, she started velocity skating. Whereas Stoddard doesn’t but have any Olympic medals, she’s a three-time world medalist briefly monitor speedskating.

The skater stated she’s dreamed of the Olympics since she was a toddler, which required a variety of exhausting work alongside the way in which.

“I might all the time have coaching each day after faculty, so there wasn’t a lot time for like, play dates or sleepovers rising up,” she informed CBS Information. “There wasn’t a lot time as, like, a teen, to exit with buddies on the weekends. After which for my final two years of highschool, I did on-line after I moved out to Salt Lake to begin coaching with the nationwide workforce, so I did not get to do any of, like the everyday like, promenade and stuff like that. However to me, that is all price it.”

Deedra Irwin

Deedra Irwin grew up desirous to be an Olympian, however she was excited about the Summer time Olympics, not the Winter Olympics. 

“I wished to be an Olympic monitor star. I had no concept the Winter Olympics have been a factor,” Irwin informed CBS Information. 

The 33-year-old athlete picked up snowboarding in highschool as a method to keep in form between the autumn cross-country season and the spring monitor and subject season, in accordance with Workforce USA.  It wasn’t till she was 25 that she began collaborating in biathlon. 

She went to the 2022 Beijing Olympics, the place she completed seventh, the perfect end ever for an American in a person biathlon occasion on the Olympics.

“We have educated a lot all through our lives to only get to this stage,” Irwin stated. “And so I feel for me, it means a variety of, like, group and household and buddies. I do not bear in mind the final time I used to be dwelling for Christmas previously, like, eight years.”

Erin Jackson

Gold medalist speedskater Erin Jackson, 33, is making her third Olympic look — and this yr, together with bobsledder Frank Del Duca, she additionally led Workforce USA as a flagbearer in the course of the opening ceremony.

In 2022, Jackson grew to become the first Black lady to win gold in a person occasion on the Winter Olympics — after practically failing to make the workforce that yr. 

Jackson slipped on the U.S. trials. Teammate Bowe, who certified for the five hundred, 1,000 and 1,5000-meter races at trials, gave up her spot within the 500-meter race to make sure Jackson would get to skate in Beijing.

“Every of my Olympic appearances have been tremendous completely different, identical to coming in in any respect completely different phases of my profession, and this one coming in because the reigning champion, there’s going to be a variety of strain, however that is what I am wanting ahead to,” Jackson informed CBS Information.

Jackson first began ice skating shortly earlier than her first journey to the Olympics. She first stepped onto an ice rink in 2016. Jackson spent years inline skating earlier than that.

“I am simply tremendous grateful to have the ability to skate in circles for a dwelling, and I simply wish to preserve doing it so long as I can,” she stated. 

Jackson participated within the 1,000 meters on Monday, briefly holding the lead, earlier than ending in sixth.

Hilary Knight

Ice hockey participant Hilary Knight, 36, has been to the Olympics 4 instances and has medaled every time, taking dwelling a gold and three silver medals. Milano Cortino is her fifth Olympics. 

“And by no means would I’ve imagined with the ability to compete in 5 Olympic Video games,” she informed CBS Information. “I imply, that is simply, that is loopy in one of the simplest ways.”

Knight, throughout a preliminary spherical sport towards Canada on Feb. 10, tied the all-time U.S. ladies’s hockey report for many Olympic factors. The 5-0 sport was the the biggest margin of victory ever within the U.S.-Canada Olympic hockey rivalry, in accordance with Workforce USA.

Ice hockey play has change into so much sooner over time, Knight stated.

“It is much more technical, tactical. There’s extra of a dynamic, skillful degree to it as effectively, and the visibility is ever rising, which is absolutely thrilling,” she stated. 

Knight performed a key function in creating the Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League.

Ilia Malinin

Determine skater Ilia Malinin is making his Olympic debut. The 21-year-old, generally known as the “Quad God,” is the primary athlete to efficiently land every of the six sorts of quadruple jumps in a single program. His robust efficiency helped lead the American skaters to a gold medal within the workforce occasion, and he is aiming for extra within the particular person competitors.

Malinin took first within the males’s singles quick program on Feb. 10, with a program rating of 108.16. He’ll advance to the free skate, a medal occasion, scheduled for Feb. 13.

In line with Workforce USA, Malinin eats a chocolate bar earlier than every competitors.

Malinan, whose mother and father have been Olympic determine skaters for Uzbekistan and whose grandfather was a determine skater for the us, began skating at 6.

He received gold at each the 2024 and 2025 ISU Determine Skating World Championships.

See Malinan’s interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” right here.

Jaelin Kauf

That is freestyle skier Jaelin Kauf’s third journey to the Olympics. The 29-year-old silver medalist makes a speciality of moguls and twin moguls, the latter of which can make its debut on the Olympics this yr — one thing Kauf stated she’s been ready a very long time for. 

“It is simply such an thrilling sport,” she informed CBS Information. “I’ve most likely excelled in that traditionally greater than singles, and so it will simply be actually cool to be part of that on the Olympic stage, being part of that debut.”

Each of Kauf’s mother and father have been skilled mogul skiers.

“My mother has all the time been my greatest hero and function mannequin, simply watching how she’s simply gone at life and performed what she’s performed, pushing the boundaries,” Kauf stated. 

Jordan Stolz

Velocity skater Jordan Stolz, 21, began skating on the pond behind his household’s dwelling after watching Apolo Ohno and Shani Davis within the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, in accordance with Workforce USA. 

He made his Olympic debut in 2022. Stolz specializes within the 500-meter, 1,000meter and 1,500-meter. He grew to become the world champion in all three classes on the ISU Single Distance World Championships in 2023 and once more in 2024. 

Stolz additionally skates professionally for the Dutch workforce, Albert Heijn Zaanlander. Speedskating is a widely-followed sport within the Netherlands, and Stolz stated he hopes to convey extra consciousness to hurry skating within the U.S.  

“It is clearly not going to be as a lot as it’s in Holland. I want it was however perhaps sometime it is going to be, however not less than I can do some bit,” Stolz informed CBS Information.

Kendall Coyne Schofield

Milano Cortina can be ice hockey participant Kendall Coyne Schofield’s fourth journey to the Olympics. She beforehand took dwelling a gold and two silvers. 

“I am simply so excited to really feel revived by way of these video games with household, buddies, followers, pleasure, simply power, all of the issues that we weren’t capable of expertise in Beijing as a result of [of] the pandemic,” Coyne Schofield informed CBS Information. 

This can even be the 33-year-old athlete’s first Olympics as a mother, one thing that she stated has made her a greater hockey participant. 

“It is put my life into perspective,” she stated. “It is supplied me with [an] abundance of endurance that I did not have beforehand.”

Her son chants “USA, USA,” whether or not the workforce wins or loses, she stated. 

Off the ice, Coyne Schofield voiced a hockey announcer within the Pixar film “Inside Out 2.”

Korey Dropkin

That is 30-year-old roller Korey Dropkin’s first journey to the Olympics, although he is been curling for many of his life. 

“It is a household sport. Actually, it is like faith to me,” Dropkin informed CBS Information. “I grew up on the curling membership. My mother and father have been tremendous concerned with a junior program at our curling membership. My brother was 5 years older. He was already curling. I {followed} in his footsteps. I used to be like his shadow.”

After graduating from highschool, Dropkin moved to Duluth, Minnesota, which has change into the U.S. curling capital.

“I’ve devoted my entire life to attending to the Olympics and hopefully medaling on the Olympics,” he stated. “I moved myself and relocated and actually devoted a variety of blood, sweat and tears. So being an Olympian, lastly, I have been shut, and now lastly realizing the Olympics is only a large dream come true.”

Alongside Cory Thiesse, Dropkin delivered Workforce USA’s first-ever medal in blended doubles curling, taking dwelling silver.

Kristen Santos-Griswold

Speedskater Kristen Santos-Griswold, 31, virtually selected to not go to this yr’s Olympics after heartbreak in 2022. She was in bronze medal place with simply two laps to go within the 1,000-meter when a bump by an opponent prompted her to fall. The bump was later dominated a penalty, however the disheartening end had Santos-Griswold contemplating retirement. 

“After I determined that I used to be going to maintain going, I used to be like, ‘All proper, I am doing it for me. I’ll make all of it price it. I’ll benefit from the journey,” Santos-Griswold informed CBS Information. “I feel that is simply helped to, like, catapult me into going into Olympic yr with primary on my helmet.”

Santos-Griswold has been coaching for many of her life. She began determine skating at 3. When she was 9, Santos-Griswold noticed speedskating in a business on TV, determined she wished to strive it, and fell in love. 

“Being an Olympian means every little thing,” she stated. “It is one thing that I have been working in the direction of my complete life. I began skating after I was 3 years previous, and I am 30 now, so strong 27 years of dreaming about this.”

Santos-Griswold is presently engaged on a doctorate, with plans to be a bodily therapist as soon as her skating profession is over, in accordance with Workforce USA.

Lindsey Vonn

Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, who made a comeback a number of years after retiring, was decided to compete in her fifth Olympics — regardless of a latest damage on the slopes that left her with a ruptured ACL. However the effort resulted in a crash simply seconds into her downhill race, with Vonn being airlifted off the mountain in entrance of surprised spectators. (Teammate Breezy Johnson went on to win the gold.)

The 41-year-old Vonn beforehand competed on the Olympics in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2018, taking dwelling gold and two silver medals.

In an announcement posted to social media a day after her crash at Milano Cortina, Vonn urged others to attempt to obtain their desires, even when they do not pan out.

“I hope for those who take away something from my journey it is that you simply all have the braveness to dare vastly,” she wrote. “Life is simply too quick to not take possibilities on your self. As a result of the one failure in life just isn’t attempting.”

Vonn is the one American lady to win Olympic gold in downhill, in accordance with Workforce USA, and he or she additionally has essentially the most victories by any skier — male or feminine — in a single self-discipline. 

Vonn began snowboarding at 3. She realized along with her father and grandfather, each of whom have been aggressive skiers, and made her Olympic debut at 17. She retired in 2019 amid extreme knee injury. Vonn has since had knee surgical procedure and informed CBS Information she’s now the strongest she’s been in her profession. 

“The one factor I feel that is perhaps more difficult at 41 is simply the grind of being away,” she stated. “I sort of received used to being at dwelling with my canines and my household, and I received away from, you realize, the routine of being on the highway, which does not essentially change due to age, simply, I feel, extra from being away from the game for six years.”

In 2022, John Clarey, then 41, made historical past because the oldest alpine skier to medal at an Olympic Winter Video games. Vonn stated her age will not cease her from competing on the coming Olympics. 

“If I’ve the chance to compete, I’ll,” Vonn stated. “Simply because I am 41 does not imply I can not try this if I bodily really feel good, which I do, I really feel higher now than I did in my 20s. So you realize, I do not see there to be any motive why I can not do it at 41.”

Every week earlier than the beginning of the Video games, Vonn crashed in one in all her last downhill tune-ups. Whereas she was airlifted off the mountain to obtain medical therapy after injuring her left knee, she assured her followers on social media that her Olympic dream was “not over.”

“It is a very tough final result one week earlier than the Olympics… but when there’s one factor I understand how to do, it is a comeback,” she wrote.

“I am not letting this slip by way of my fingers. I am gonna do it. Finish of story,” she stated. 

Madison Chock and Evan Bates

Ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates are again for one more the Olympics — and so they’re already setting a excessive bar, scoring a world-best 91.06 factors in rhythm dance because the competitors started on Feb. 6.

Chock, 33, competed in 2014, 2018 and 2022, whereas Bates, 36, started his Olympic run in 2010. 

Their partnership started in 2011, and so they received Olympic gold in the course of the workforce occasion at their third Olympic Video games. The duo helped Workforce USA win its second consecutive gold within the workforce occasion at Milano Cortina 2026, triumphing in each the rhythm dance and the free dance.

Chock and Bates are the favorites to win particular person Olympic gold later within the Winter Video games, if they’ll edge out the French duo within the free dance on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

“There’s a lot satisfaction behind it,” Chock informed CBS Information. “I feel rising up and seeing different athletes symbolize Workforce USA meant so much and formed a variety of how I view sport and athleticism, and there is a lot satisfaction that comes with representing your nation within the Olympic Video games on the most important stage for sports activities on this planet. And it is simply been the best honor of my life to be a member of Workforce USA.”

Chock and Bates have additionally received three consecutive ISU World Determine Skating Championships, beginning in 2023.

They’re companions off the ice, too. The couple received married in 2024.

Maxim Naumov

Determine skater Maxim Naumov made his first look on the Olympics after a yr marked by tragedy and an emotional comeback.

His journey to the Olympics comes a yr after his mother and father, former world champions Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, died when their airplane collided with a army helicopter on strategy to Washington, D.C. His mother and father, who have been standard coaches on the Skating Membership of Boston, have been amongst 67 individuals killed within the crash. 

Naumov delivered an emotional skate on Feb. 10. “Mother and Dad, that is for you,” was projected on the large display overhead earlier than he began his quick program. Naumov held a photograph of his mother and father as he awaited his rating, simply as he did on the U.S. Determine Skating Championships in January.

“Having function fashions be proper there in the home, on the rink, simply in all places, they impressed me to need this dream and it could imply completely every little thing for me to be on the Olympics,” Naumov stated in a social media submit. “I am working as exhausting as I presumably can and I am doing every little thing in my energy to take action. Doing it for them can be much more lovely.”

Mikaela Shiffrin

Skier Mikaela Shiffrin, 30, headed to the Olympics for the fourth time. She first skied within the Olympics in 2013 and has earned two gold medals and a silver.

Shiffrin makes a speciality of slalom, large slalom, super-G and downhill. She’s the primary alpine skier to report 100 FIS World Cup wins and the primary athlete in FIS Ski World Cup historical past to win in all six disciplines.

In 2024, Shiffrin crashed after dropping management whereas on the course for the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics. Then final yr, she stated she was coping with post-traumatic stress dysfunction from one other crash, throughout which she suffered a puncture wound and extreme trauma to her indirect muscle groups.

Mystique Ro

Skeleton racer Mystique Ro, 31, headed to the Olympics for the primary time, however she’s no stranger to competitors. 

Ro competed in monitor & subject. Then, in 2016, she was invited to a rookie camp by USA Bobsled/Skeleton. Coaches there informed her she was a bit of small for bobsled and pushed her to strive skeleton.

Throughout skeleton, racers on sleds — head first and face down — can attain speeds of round 80 miles per hour, utilizing physique shifts to information the sled by way of the course. 

“When you get away from the worry, it begins to change into a sport,” Ro informed CBS Information. “So for those who get previous the worry, that is step one, after which you possibly can sort of benefit from the sport for what it’s.”

Whereas loads of children journey sleds down hills, Row stated this is not the identical. 

“The velocity is considerably sooner, and there is much more peril concerned for those who’re not ready for it,” she stated. 

She made her FIL World Cup debut in 2023 and, the next yr, grew to become the primary American athlete to win a skeleton race on the World Cup circuit in eight years. 

Nick Goepper

Milano Cortina is skier Nick Goepper’s fourth journey to the Olympics. In 2014, he took bronze in Sochi, contributing to a U.S. podium sweep in males’s slopestyle snowboarding. Goepper received silver on the Olympics in 2018 and once more in 2022. 

“To me, being an Olympian has meant legacy,” he informed CBS Information. “I’m an enormous fan of historical past. I like studying about individuals who have performed, you realize, wonderful issues and household connections and identical to, you realize, individuals’s eyes all the time gentle up while you discuss in regards to the Olympics.”

The 31-year-old athlete retired after Beijing, however then returned lower than a yr later to compete in halfpipe as a substitute of slopestyle. 

Goepper stated his strategy to competitors and the Olympics has modified over time. 

“I can sit again and benefit from the little moments a bit of bit extra. I can savor issues a bit of extra, which is good,” he stated.

Paula Moltzan

Alpine skier Paula Moltzan made her Olympic debut in 2022.

“I really feel like I realized so much in my first Olympics, and so to take all these classes realized into one other alternative would imply so much to me,” she informed CBS Information. 

These classes took her to an Olympic podium this yr. She received bronze alongside Jackie Wiles within the ladies’s workforce mixed.

Moltzan, now 31, received the junior world slalom title when she was 20, changing into the primary American lady to win the occasion on the junior world championships. She additionally received the NCAA ladies’s slalom title as a freshman on the College of Vermont.

After her Olympics debut in Beijing at 27, Moltzan grew to become a two-time world medalist. She received a title within the parallel workforce occasion in 2023 and her first particular person world medal, a bronze, in large slalom in 2025.

She stated her household sacrificed so much to help her snowboarding profession. 

“I feel they took second mortgages out on my home to permit me to compete in sport. After which my siblings as effectively, I undoubtedly had the precedence due to my athletic capacity. They gave up perhaps smaller moments, like going to summer time camp so I may go to ski camp,” she stated. “Nevertheless it all turns into price it while you’re there together with your workforce, representing Workforce USA.”

Crimson Gerard

That is Crimson Gerard’s third journey to the Olympics. The 25-year-old snowboarder received gold in slopestyle in 2018 when he was simply 17, changing into the youngest American snowboarder to attain the feat, in accordance with Workforce USA. 

“I rapidly realized that first Olympics how large it’s and the way cool it’s,” Gerard informed CBS Information. “Ever since, you simply sort of wish to get again on that stage as a result of there isn’t any stage larger than the Olympics.”

Gerard returned to the Olympics in 2022, ending fourth in slopestyle and fifth in large air. The snowboarder received in slopestyle on the 2024 and 2025 X Video games.

Gerard began snowboarding when he was simply 2-years-old. In 2007, his household moved to Colorado, the place they constructed a snowboarding park of their yard to help Gerard’s ardour. 

Ryan Cochran-Siegle

Alpine skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle, 33, heads to the Olympics for his third Video games. Cochran-Siegle, the son of an Olympian, began snowboarding on the age of two. 

He tore his ACL and lateral meniscus in 2013 on the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships, in accordance with Workforce USA. 5 years later, he made his Olympic debut in 2018 in PyeongChang. Cochran-Siegle received his first FIS World Cup Race in 2020, however missed the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships in 2021 with a fractured neck. 

The skier got here again in 2022, the place he received silver in super-G on the Beijing Video games. He was the one U.S. alpine snowboarding medalist on the Beijing Video games. 

Cochran-Siegle informed CBS Information that in his earlier Olympic appearances, he realized to embrace the second and to belief and imagine in himself. 

“Simply going on the market and doing what I like and placing myself out there’s what’s vital,” he stated.