US EditionOlympics 2026: Meet the Team USA Athletes Going for Gold in the Milan Cortina Winter Games
- This week, the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin and the Philadelphia region will compete across skating, luge, skeleton, bobsled, curling and hockey, while NBC10 profiles local athletes and Team USA sent a 232-athlete roster.
- Born and raised in Warrington, Bucks County, Andrew Heo, who makes his second Olympic team, will have his family attend for the first time; Matthew Greiner, 22, competes in luge at his first Olympics.
- Scheduled times list when to watch local athletes in action, including Isabeau Levito at Milano Ice Skating Arena on Feb. 6 at 7:35 a.m. EST and women’s curling from Feb. 12–22 at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.
- NHL connections create unusual national alignments and storylines at the Games as Rasmus Ristolainen, Dan Vladar, and Travis Sanheim compete for Finland, Czechia, and Canada while Rick Tocchet coaches Canada.
- Veteran athletes bring comeback and milestone narratives to the Games as Summer Britcher, 31, aims for a medal in Milan Cortina after Beijing 2022 and Kelly Curtis, 37, returns as a new mother.
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The opening ceremony for the Winter Olympic Games is this Friday in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, with the Paralympics following after from March 6. While it’s fun to cheer on Team USA as a whole while relearning what exactly skeleton is, it adds a little bit of pride knowing which athletes have ties to the region. As with the Summer Games in Paris two years ago, we’ve gathered all Team USA Olympians from Pennsylvania and New Jersey (sorry, no D…
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