Kim, who will be 25 come the Milan Cortina Games, can become the first snowboarder to win the same Olympic event three times, if she isn’t beaten to it by Austrian Anna Gasser (big air) and Czech Ester Ledecka (parallel giant slalom).

We may be a year away from the 2026 Winter Olympics, but we’re already excited to root for our countries and join in on the celebrations that the whole world will be watching closely. The information on the upcoming Winter Olympics is out now. Learn more about the international competition below.

After all, Varnier, the CEO of the 2026 Winter Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy, spent a lot of time in Utah more than two decades ago as one of the directors of his country’s last Winter Games, in Torino in 2006.