Team USA stars to know as the 2026 Winter Olympics begin

Team USA isn’t precisely known for its Winter Olympics domination, but the Americans anticipation to alteration the communicative erstwhile it comes to the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.

The Americans finished 3rd successful the medal array astatine the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and 4th successful the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. The U.S. finished with the astir medals successful the 2010 Vancouver Games but lone had 9 golden medals to show.

The Team USA roster volition look to alteration their fortunes successful this year’s Games and, somehow, decorativeness up of Norway, Germany and Canada. 

Team USA volition combat hard to get the gold. The Olympics volition statesman connected Friday. Read beneath for some of the athletes to support a keen oculus on.

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Alysa Liu

Alysa Liu poses for a photograph pursuing the 2026 Milan Olympics fig skating squad announcement amusement astatine Enterprise Center connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Jeff Curry/Imagn Images)

Alysa Liu volition beryllium looking to scope the Olympic podium for the archetypal clip successful her career. She volition beryllium competing successful the women’s singles lawsuit with Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito. She finished sixth successful the 2022 Olympics, but she was lone 16 astatine the time.

Now, astatine 20, Liu is entering the Winter Games aft having a palmy 2025 campaign. She won golden medals astatine the World Championships and the Grand Prix Final. Liu besides picked up metallic medals successful 2025 and 2026 astatine the U.S. Championships.

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Chloe Kim

Chloe Kim (USA) celebrates winning the golden medal during the medals ceremonial for Women's Snowboard Halfpipe the  at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games connected Feb. 10, 2022. (Danielle Parhizkaran/USA TODAY Sports)

Chloe Kim has wowed audiences successful the halfpipe snowboarding lawsuit and volition look to proceed her dominance astatine the lawsuit successful 2026. Kim debuted erstwhile she was 17 years aged astatine the 2018 Olympics, becoming the youngest pistillate to triumph an Olympic snowboarding golden medal. She followed that up successful 2022 erstwhile different golden medal.

Kim is going for her 3rd consecutive golden medal but nether tougher circumstances. She dislocated her enarthrosis 3 weeks earlier the Milan Cortina Games. She said she was "good to go" for the Olympics and volition look to propulsion done the injury.

Elana Meyers Taylor

Elana Meyers Taylor of Team United States poses during the medal ceremonial pursuing the Women's Monobob Race Heat 4 connected time 4 of the 2025 IBSF World Championships astatine Mt. Van Hoevenberg connected March 9, 2025, successful Lake Placid, New York. (Al Bello/Getty Images)

Elana Meyers Taylor is backmost successful the Olympics and is looking to marque much past successful her 5th Winter Games. She volition vie for the U.S. bobsleigh squad successful the monobob competition. In 2022, she picked up her 5th Olympic medal of her vocation becoming the archetypal Black pistillate to execute the feat.

This month, she hopes to instrumentality to glory arsenic Team USA tries to enactment connected a ascendant show successful Italy.

Erin Jackson

Erin Jackson of USA competes successful the women's 500m during the ISU Speedskating World Cup astatine Calgary Olympic Oval connected Nov. 22, 2025. (Sergei Belski/Imagn Images)

Erin Jackson made past successful 2022 erstwhile she became the archetypal Black pistillate to medal successful velocity skating. She didn’t lone medal, but she picked up golden successful the 500-meter race. Jackson is backmost connected Team USA and looking to prime up different medal.

Jackson volition enactment successful the 500-meter contention again with Sarah Warren. She volition besides contention on with Brittany Bowe successful the 1,000-meter race.

Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn of the United States celebrates connected the podium aft winning the women's downhill alpine skiing contention successful the FIS World Cup astatine Zauchensee connected Jan. 10, 2026.  (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters via Imagn Images)

Lindsey Vonn qualified for the Winter Olympics this twelvemonth and is acceptable to vie successful the downhill alpine skiing event. She won 2 World Cup downhill races and was acceptable to vie successful her 5th Olympic Games, until Friday erstwhile she suffered a devastating injury.

Vonn hasn’t said whether the wounded volition support her from competing successful Milan Cortina, but vowed that her Olympic imagination wasn’t over.

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She has 1 golden medal and 2 bronze medals connected her resume.

Hilary Knight

Hilary Knight poses for a photograph during the U.S. Olympic Team Media Summit successful mentation for the 2026 Milan Olympic Winter Games astatine Javits Center connected Oct. 29, 2025. (Robert Deutsch/Imagn Images)

Hilary Knight is 1 of the astir recognizable faces connected the U.S. women’s hockey team. She’s been with the U.S. arsenic a teen and was connected the squad that won the metallic medal successful the 2006 4 Nations Cup.

Knight picked up a golden medal erstwhile the women’s squad won successful 2018 successful Pyeongchang. She has 3 metallic medals, including the 2022 Games successful Beijing. The squad mislaid to Canada successful the matchup. She said that the 2026 Winter Olympics volition beryllium her last Games.

"I person grown up successful this programme and it’s conscionable fixed maine truthful much. I’m astatine peace. And I’m grateful that, hopefully I tin enactment healthy, I tin spell retired erstwhile I’d similar to beryllium done. That is specified a privilege," she said, via Olympics.com.

Madison Chock & Evan Bates

Madison Chock and Evan Bates airs for a photograph pursuing the 2026 Milan Olympics fig skating squad announcement amusement astatine Enterprise Center connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Jeff Curry/Imagn Images)

Madison Chock volition vie with Evan Bates successful the crystal creation subject of the fig skating competition. The husband-and-wife duo were a portion of the gold-medal winning squad lawsuit successful 2022 and volition look to assistance the U.S. backmost to archetypal spot successful 2026.

Chock and Bates person ne'er medaled connected the Olympic signifier but the 2 took location golden medals successful the past 5 U.S. Championships and the past 3 Grand Prix Finals.

This could precise good beryllium their twelvemonth to get Olympic golden astir their necks.

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Maxim Naumov

Maxim Naumov performs during the 2026 U.S. Figure Skating Championships astatine Enterprise Center connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Jeff Le/Imagn Images)

Maxim Naumov overcame an highly hard twelvemonth to gain a spot connected Team USA’s roster for the men’s singles fig skating competition. Naumov’s parents were passengers connected a commercialized formation that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk chopper successful Washington, D.C.

"They were beauteous people. They were truthful incredibly kind," helium told NBC’s "TODAY" past March. "The lone mode retired is through. There’s nary different way. There are nary options but to support going. I don’t person the spot oregon the passionateness oregon the drive, oregon the dedication of 1 idiosyncratic anymore. It’s 3 people."

He returned to skating connected March 2 and pushed toward making the Olympic team. He won a bronze medal astatine the U.S. Championships and was named to the Olympic team.

Mikaela Shiffrin

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates winning an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, successful Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

Mikaela Shiffrin had a pugnacious 2022 Winter Olympics to accidental the least. She was the favourite to bring location immoderate golden for the U.S. but she picked up a did not decorativeness the elephantine slalom and slalom and aboriginal ninth successful the super-G.

She has since rebounded and is gearing up for a podium propulsion this year. She won golden medals successful the 2023 World Championships successful the elephantine slalom and successful the squad combined successful the 2025 World Championships. In 2021, she won a gold, metallic and 2 bronze medals successful Cortina d'Ampezzo.

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NHL stars

Jack Hughes of Team United States warms up earlier the 4 Nations Face-Off Championship crippled betwixt Team Canada and Team United States astatine TD Garden connected Feb. 20, 2025 successful Boston, Massachusetts.  (Ben Jackson/4NFO/World Cup of Hockey via Getty Images)

For the archetypal clip successful implicit 10 years, NHL stars volition instrumentality to the crystal to correspond the U.S. successful men’s hockey astatine the Winter Olympics.

The U.S. roster includes goalies Jeremy Swayman, Jake Oettinger and Connor Hellebuyck, forwards Brady Tkachuk, Jack Eichel, J.T. Miller, Matt Boldy, Vincent Trocheck, Matthew Tkachuk, Dylan Larkin, Brock Nelson, Auston Matthews, Jake Guentzel, Tage Thompson, Kyle Connor, Jack Hughes and Clayton Keller and defensemen Zach Werenski, Brock Faber, Noah Hanifin, Charlie McAvoy, Quinn Hughes, Jacob Slavin and Jake Sanderson.

The U.S. made their beingness known past twelvemonth successful the 4 Nations Face-Off arsenic a bitter rivalry with Canada was ignited. The squad is acceptable to commencement radical play connected Feb. 12 against Latvia and whitethorn nont conscionable Canada until the knockout phase.

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