Enjoying Winter Scenes in Milano-Cortina 2026
Sunday, February 8, 2026 is Superbowl Sunday. But I am not going to watch it because I don’t care for either team—Seahawks or Patriots.
Alpine Skiing: Women’s Downhill at Olympia Delle Tofane. Breezy Johnson’s score is in the lead. Germany’s Aicher scores second highest. Austria’s Huetter scores third place. USA’s Lindsey Vonn falls down the slope in a huge crash. She had to be airlifted by a helicopter. It was later revealed that she broke her leg and she had surgery, and she is now in stable condition. I don’t like Vonn anyway. I met her at the mall with other Olympic athletes, and she is a very ugly person, inside and out. Italy’s Sophia Goggia takes over third place, and USA’s J. Wiles is in fourth place. USA’s Breezy Johnson wins Gold, Germany’s Emma Aicher wins Silver, and Italy’s Sophia Goggia wins Bronze
Men’s Speed Skating—5000M: Netherland’s van de Bunt beats Norway’s Henriksen. Italy’s Lorello beats Norway’s Kongshaug. Japan’s Sasaki and China’s Liu race. Belgium’s Swings beats Germany’s Petzold. Netherland’s Huizinga beats Austria Farthofer. Italy’s Malfatti beats Germany’s Maly, but Malfatti scores in seventh place. Italy’s Ghiotto beats USA’s C. Dawson. Norway’s Eitrem beats Czech’s Jilek. Eitrem scores the highest score, followed by Jilek’s score. Canada’s Bloemen and France Loubineaud also race, but their score isn’t high enough. Norway’s Sander Eitrem wins Gold, Czech’s Metodej Jilek wins Silver, and Italy’s Riccardo Lorello wins Bronze.
Women’s Figure Skating Team Event: Japan’s Sakamoto wins Gold, Georgia’s Gubanova wins Silver, and USA’s Amber Glenn wins Bronze.
Men’s Figure Skating Team Event: Italy’s Rizzo is in the lead with the highest score. But USA’s Ilia Malinin takes over the lead, even though he fell. He makes up his fall with a very fast and difficult ending. Canada’s Gogolov is in third place. Japan’s Shun Sato moves into second place, pushing back Rizzo into third place, and Gogolov moves into fourth place. USA’s Ilia Malinin wins Gold, Japan’s Shun Sato wins Silver, and Italy’s Rizzo wins Bronze.
Men’s Parallel Giant Slalom, Snowboarding: Korea’s Kim S. beats Italy’s Fischnaller (DNF). Slovenia’s Masnak beats Italy’s Felicetti (DNF). Austria’s Benjamin Karl beats Austria Prommegger. Karl moves into first place and Prommegger moves into second place. Korea’s Kim Sangkyum beats Bulgaria’s Tervel Zamfirov. Kim Sangkyum takes over first place and Tervel Zamfirov takes over second place. Masnak races Karl for the Gold. Karl beats Masnak, before racing Kim S. for the Gold. Austria’s Benjamin Karl wins Gold. Tervel Zamfirov beats Masnak for the Bronze, and Bulgaria’s Tervel Zamfirov wins the Bronze. The race was very close toward the finish line, and it appeared to be by a hair difference. Korea’s Kim Sangkyum wins Silver.
Women’s Parallel Giant Slalom, Snowboarding: Czech’s Ester Ledecka is in lead until Austria’s S. Payer takes over the first-place score. Italy’s Lucia Dalmasso is in second place. Czech’s Zuzana Maderova beats Italy’s Caffont, and Maderova takes over first place. Italy’s Dalmasso beats Italy’s Caffont, and Dalmasso takes over first place. Czech’s Maderova beats Austria’s Payer. Zuzana Maderova takes over first place, winning the Gold Medal, Austria’s Sabine Payer wins the Silver Medal, and Italy’s Lucia Dalmasso wins the Bronze Medal.
Women’s Big Air Qualifying Snowboarding, Run 1 and Run 2: New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is in the lead. Japan’s Kokomo Murase is in second place. USA’s L. Dhawornvej is in third place. Austria’s Gasser is in fourth place. Germany’s A. Morgan moves into third place. Great Britain’s M. Brookes is in eighth place. USA’s H. Norman is in thirteenth place.
Monday, February 9, 2026 is World Pizza Day. I wanted to go to the gym, but the Winter Olympics started, and I also wanted to watch winter sports.
Women’s Speed Skating 1000M: The race started out with Netherland’s Schulting beating Italy’s M. Vigl, where Schulting is in first place and Vigl is in second place. Switzerland’s McGregor races Kazakhstan’s Silaeva. McGregor is now in second place, but Silaeve is in seventh place. China’s Han M. beats Kazakhstan’s Morozova, which puts Han M. in third place, while Morozova is in fourth place. USA’s Erin Jackson beats Korea’s Kim M.S., which puts Erin Jackson in first place while Kim M.S. is in tenth place. Netherland’s F. Kok beats USA’s Bowe. F. Kok moves into first place, while B. Bowe moves into second place. Canada’s Lamarche beats Japan’s Yamada. Lamarche takes over third place while Yamada is in fifth place. Netherland’s Jutte Leerdam beats Japan’s Takagi M. Leerham moves into first place, while Takagi is now in third. Netherland’s Jutte Leerdam wins Gold, Netherland’s Femke Kok wins Silver, and Japan’s Miho Takagi wins Bronze.
Men’s Team Combined: Downhill Skiing/Slalom at Stelvio Ski Center at the Bormio Village: Each male skier takes turns performing on the slope to beat the other man’s score. Germany is in second place, while Austria’s D. Hemetsberger is in first place. Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt is now in first place. Italy’s G. Franzoni is now in first place, but Austria’s Vince Kriechemayr is in third place. Italy’s D. Paris is now in third place. Italy’s G. Franzoni is in first place. Switzerland’s A. Monney is in second place. Switzerland’s F. von Allmen is in fourth place. USA’s Kyle Negomir doesn’t score well. USA’s Radamus comes in fourth place, while France’s Nils Allegre is in first place. Austria’s M. Matt takes over first place. Austria’s M. Feller is now in first place. France’s C. Noel is in third. Italy’s T. Sala takes over third place. Switzerland’s T. Nef is now in first place, while Switzerland’s L. Meillard makes it to second place. Switzerland’s Daniel Yule is in eighteenth place. Italy’s Alex Vinatzer is in seventh place. Switzerland’s Tanguy Nef and Franjo von Allmen win Gold, Austria’s Manuel Feller and Vincent Kriechemayr win Silver, and Switzerland’s Loic Meillard and Marco Odermatt win Bronze.
Women’s Big Air Snowboarding Final involves 3 Runs at Livigno Snow Park: The snowboarders will perform in three runs but the lowest score of the three runs will be omitted from the scoring, and only the two highest scores will be used. During Run 1, Australia’s Tess Coady uses a Melon Grab, which puts her in first place. China’s Zhang X. comes in second place. Austria’s Anna Gasser doesn’t do very well. Japan’s Momo Suzuki uses a Hand Grab, which puts her in fourth place. Japan’s Reira Iwabuchi takes over first place. Australia’s M. Stalker is in third place. Japan’s Fukada falls during landing. Korea’s Yu S. is now in first place. Great Britain’s M. Brookes is now in third place. New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott falls during landing, which puts her in tenth place. During Run 2, Australia’s Coady is in first place. China’s Zhang falls on her landing, which puts her in third place. Austria’s H. Karper falls. Austria’s Anna Gasser performs a bad landing, which puts her in tenth place. Japan’s M. Suzuki is now in first place. Japan’s R. Iwabuchi is now in third place. Australia’s M. Stalker is in twelfth place. Japan’s Fukada is in eighth place. Korea’s Yu S. scores high, which puts her in first place. Great Britain’s M. Brookes is in second place. Japan’s K. Murase takes over second place with her high score. New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is in eighth place. During Run 3, Austria’s Anna Gasser continues to mess up, and she is in sixth place. Japan’s Fukada falls back on her landing, which puts her in seventh place. China’s Zhang X. is in fourth place. New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott performs well, which puts her in first place. Japan’s R. Iwabuchi falls. She gets a DNI, which means Did not improve. Australia’s M. Stalker falls. She also gets DNI. Australia’s Coady performs well on this round but she still gets DNI. Korea’s Yu S. falls and she also receives DNI. Japan’s K. Murase performs well, which puts her in first place. Japan’s Kokomo Murase wins Gold, New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott wins Silver, and Korea’s Yu Seung-Eun wins Bronze.
Rhythmic Ice Dancing—Figure Skating: Great Britain’s Bekker/Hernandez are in first place, but France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron take over first place position. Czech brother/sister Mrazkova and Mrazkova are in fifth place. Canada’s Lauriault and Le Gac are in third place. Georgia’s Davis and Smolkin are now in second place. Korea’s Lim and Quan are in eleventh place because the male ice dancer messed up. Finland’s Turkkila and Versluis are in second place. Spain’s Smart and Dieck take over second place with a better score. Canada’s Lajoie and Lagha take over second place. USA’s Zingas and Kolesnik take over second place with their score. Lithuania’s Reed and Ambrulevicius are in third place. USA’s Carriera and Ponomorenko are in sixth place. Canada’s Gilles and Poirier skate into second place. France’s Lopareva and Brissaud are in fifth place. Great Britain’s Fear and Gibson are in third place. Italy’s Guignard and Fabbri are in fourth place. USA’s married couple Chock and Bates are in second place. The second part of this ice dancing with continue tomorrow.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 News starts with Vogue Magazine has a new head of editorial content, or Vogue Editor-In- Chief. Chloe Malle had been working with Anna Wintour for many years. She is Anna’s daughter with her father, filmmaker Louis Malle, who had died when Chloe was a child. She got this position because she is a nepo baby. Chloe is married to Graham McGrath Albert, and they have two kids, Louis and Alice. Meanwhile, the weather in Irvine, Southern California is suddenly cloudy and cool, with the possibility of some rain later, with temperatures in sixties as well as some windiness. This evening’s walking meetup has been cancelled, probably because of this weird weather.
Men’s Slopestyle Final with 3 Runs at Livigno Snow Park: In Run 1, USA’s Alex Hall uses the Butter Trick, which puts him in first place, but USA’s Mac ForeHand falls. Sweden’s J. Tjader is in second place. Norwary’s Birk Ruud uses the Butter Trick, and he takes over first place. In Run 2, USA’s Hall remains in second place. In Run 3, New Zealand’s Luca Harrington uses Esco Grab, which puts him in first place. USA’s Hall remains in second place. Norway’s Frostad falls. Although Birk Ruud also falls and loses a ski, it doesn’t matter or affect his score because his other two Run scores were high enough. Norway’s Birk Ruud wins Gold, USA’s Alex Hall wins Silver, and New Zealand’s Luca Harrington wins Bronze.
The Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium is at Cortina d’Ampezzo: As I watched Curling, I noticed it is similar to pool and table hockey, but the players are on the field or board game floor, trying to control the huge puck-like pieces to move certain directions. It is also similar to shuffle board. It is like a strategic mind game, but it might be on ice. Sweden’s Brother/sister team, Isabella and Rasmus Wranaa win Gold. USA’s the Two Coreys, Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin win Silver. This is an interesting reference to late actor Corey Haim and still alive actor Corey Feldman, who were child actors molested by pedophiles. Haim died of drug related issues, while Feldman tried to expose the pedophilia industry. They also had done a reality show, The Two Coreys.
Men’s Short Program in Figure Skating at Forum di Milano: Canada’s Gogolev is in first place. AIN’s Gumennik is in second place. USA’s Naumov is in third place. Ukraine’s Marsak is now in second place. Korea’s Hy Kim is in eighth place. Latvia’s F. Kulishs falls, with puts him in tenth place. Poland’s V. Samoilov is in fifth place. China’s Jin Boyang is in fourth. Azerbaijan’s V. Litvintsev is in eighth place. USA’s Torgashev is now in first place, and in his excitement, he did the horns hand gesture afterwards with both hands. Korea’s Jun-Hwan Cha takes over first place. Slovakia’s A. Hagara is in eighth place. Latvia’s D. Vasiljevs is in eighth place. After Italy’s M. Rizzo performed, Estonia’s Selevko falls, which puts him in tenth place. Italy’s D. Grassl is in first place. Switzerland’s Britschgi messed up and lost balance, which puts him in twelfth place. France’s Aymoz is in third place. Japan’s Miura falls, which puts him in tenth place. Japan’s Shun Sato is in fifth place. France’s Siao Him-FA is in first place. Georgia’s Egadze appears to be off balance, which puts him in twelfth place. Kazakhstan’s Shaidorov is in third place. USA’s I. Malinin messes up. But he later performs his iconic move, The Raspberry Twist, which puts him in first place. Japan’s Y. Kagiyama was a little bit off balance, which puts him in second place. The Men’s Short Program will be continued on Friday with the Men’s Free-Skate Competition.
Cross Country Skiing, Men’s Sprint Classic Final: Norway’s Klaebo wins Gold, USA’s Ogden wins Silver, and Norway’s Vike wins Bronze. Vike went viral on the internet when he mentioned he cheated on his girlfriend. He appears to be still in love with her and he wants her back, but she no longer trusts him.
Men’s Freestyle Skiing, Slopestyle Final: In Run 2, USA’s K. Ralph is in fifth. USA’s A. Hall is in second place. In Run 3, New Zealand’s Luca Harrington is in third place. USA’s M. Forehand falls. Sweden’s Tjader’s ski falls off. Norway’s Frostad falls. Norway’s Birk Ruud wins Gold, USA’s Alex Hall wins Silver, and New Zealand’s Luca Harrington wins Bronze.
In Ice Hockey, USA beats Canada, 5 to 0.
Women’s Team Combined, Downhill: Austria’s Raedler beats France’s score, which puts Raedler in first place. Italy’s Pirovano is in second place and USA’s Wiles is in third place. Italy’s Goggia falls. Austria’s Huetter is in fourth place. Germany’s Weidle-Winklemann is in fifth place. USA’s Breezy Johnson is now in first place. USA’s Bella Wright falls and her ski falls off. USA’s K. Cashman is in 21st place. USA is in first place, Austria is in second place, and Italy is in third place.
Women’s Team Combined, Slalom: Switzerland’s Holdener beats France, which puts her in first place. Austria’s Truppe is in second place. USA’s Moltzan is now in second place. Italy’s Peterlini skis out of course. Austria’s Huber is now in first place. USA’s Shiffrin is in fourth place. Austria wins Gold. Raedler and Huber win the Gold Medal for Austria. German wins Silver. Aicher and Weidle-Winkelmann win the Silver Medal for Germany. USA wins Bronze. Wiles and Moltzan win the Bronze Medal for USA.
Mixed Team Relay Final A: Italy wins Gold, Canada wins Silver, and Belgium win Bronze.
Women’s Single Luge at Cortina Sliding Center: During Run 3, Germany’s Taubitz beats Germany’s Fraebel, and Taubits takes the first-place lead, followed by Fraebel in second place. Latvia’s Bota is now in second place. Italy’s Hofer is in third place. USA’s Fischnaller is in fifth-place position. During Run 4, Italy’s Robatscher is in first placed, but USA’s Fischnaller is in eighth place. Italy’s Hofer is now in first place., but USA’s Farquharson soon takes over the first-place position. Latvia’s Bota moves into first place, before Germany’s Taubitz takes over the first-place position. Germany’s Julia Taubitz wins a Gold Medal. Latvia’s Elina Bota wins a Silver Medal. USA’s Ashley Farquharson wins a Bronze Medal.
Women’s Moguls Qualifying for Freestyle Skiing at Livigno Aerials and Moguls: Australia’s J. Anthony is in first place, while USA’s T. Johnson is in sixth place. USA’s J. Kauf is in 21st place, while USA’s Lemley is in second place and USA’s Giaccio is in third place. This competition will be continued tomorrow.
For the Curling Competition, Sweden’s brother/sister team, Rasmus and Isabella Wranaa win Gold. USA’s Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse win Silver. Italy’s Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner win Bronze.
