The United States will send eight athletes to the 2026 Winter Olympics in aerials skiing, with Olympic gold medalist Chris Lillis and two-time Olympians Winter Vinecki and Kaila Kuhn leading the pack.

Big air snowboarding and big air freestyle skiing are fairly new to the Olympics. Here's what to know ahead of their events. (AP photo)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Every winter Olympics sport involves people sliding on ice or snow, and a majority of those sports involve skis. The 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics will be the first to have seven different skiing disciplines with the addition of ski mountaineering to the program.

Fans' attention at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, which opened on the 6th, has been focused on the "ski queen" Lindsey Vonn, 42 years old, United States, from the early stages. Vonn tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee during a World Cup downhill event on the 30th of last month.