The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina have provided all kinds of storylines. Currently, the world’s best winter sport athletes are competing in Italy with gold medals on the line. Gifted and talented individuals have been busy flying through the air with snowboards and skis attached to their feet,

The San Francisco-born skier isn’t new to the Olympics, and neither are questions about the country she competes for.

By Lisa Richwine LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb 18 (Reuters) - China's Su Yiming celebrated his 22nd birthday by winning the men's snowboard slopestyle final to hand his country their first gold medal of the Milano Cortina Olympics on Wednesday.

Gu and Zhu Yi, a fellow American-born athlete who now competes for China, were paid for "striving for excellent results" in the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics.

American-born Team China skier Eileen Gu responded to the global criticism she has received during the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Liu and her father, who had protested the Chinese government after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, were targeted in an alleged spying scheme months before Liu competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Liu Jiayu took a massive tumble during the qualifiers for women's halfpipe Wednesday. Her fall underscores the danger of Winter Olympic sports. (AP Photo)

American freestyle skier Eileen Gu said she was “physically assaulted,” robbed and received death threats on her college campus, Stanford University, over her controversial 2019 decision to represent her mother’s native China in the Olympics.

U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu is central to the story of the 2026 Winter Olympics, but her father's story is a gripping one too.

Eileen Gu brought home three new medals to make Olympic historyand help China dominate the freestyle skiing contests that pushed the sport to new heights at the Milano Cortina Games.