Canada's ski cross, alpine ski racers unveiled for Milano-Cortina Olympics
Posted on: Jan 26, 2026 23:05 IST | Posted by: Cbc
domain champions jack up thomas crawford, Laurence St-Germain and Marielle homer a. Thompson top Canada's alpine ski team into the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
Alpine Canada has announced the 20 athletes who will compete in downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, team alpine combined and ski cross.
The 2026 Winter Olympics officially open Feb. 6 with men's downhill the following day on Bormio's Stelvio slope.
Toronto's Crawford won a super-G world championship and St-Germain of Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Que., captured a women's slalom world title in 2023.
Ski cross racers Thompson of Whistler, B.C., and Brittany Phelan of Mont-Tremblant, Que., will both represent Canada in a fourth Olympic Games.
Thompson won Olympic gold in 2018 and silver in 2022 as well as a world championship in 2019. She's been working her way back from a knee injury and surgery last season.
Phelan earned Olympic silver in 2018.
Ski cross falls under the freestyle umbrella internationally, but Alpine Canada oversees the discipline domestically as a speed event.
Cam Alexander of North Vancouver, B.C., Jeffrey Read of Canmore, Alta., and brothers Brodie and Riley Seger of North Vancouver round out the men's alpine ski team.
Joining St-Germain on the women's alpine side are Kiara Alexander of Cochrane, Alta., Cassidy Gray and Amelia Smart of Invermere, B.C., Valerie Grenier of St-Isodore, Ont., Justine Lamontagne of St. Ferreol-les-Neiges, Britt Richardson of Canmore, Alta., and Toronto's Ali Nullmeyer.
Ottawa siblings Jared Schmidt and Hannah Schmidt will race ski cross.
Reece Howden of Chilliwack, B.C., who finished atop the season World Cup rankings in 2021, 2023 and 2025, Toronto's Kevin Drury and Gavin Rowell of Prince George, B.C., complete the men's ski cross team.
Canada has won 12 Olympic medals in alpine skiing, and seven in ski cross.
Alpine skiing has been part of the Olympic program since 1936. A Canadian woman has won a medal in every ski cross race since the discipline made its Olympic debut in 2010 in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C.
Men's alpine skiing runs Feb. 7-16 in Bormio and the women Feb. 8-18 in Cortina. Ski cross is Feb. 20-21 in Livigno.
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