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...penalty skiing. She closed the Games with four medals across two...competing in her third Winter Games, and this sport wasn't even...that matters. Gretsch was a world-class para triathlete. Three...triathlete. Three consecutive world championship titles. She was...with a guaranteed path to the Games. She chose the guaranteed path....

...targets. Won gold. Her 20th Paralympic medal, the first for Team USA at these Games. "I did not expect this," she said afterward. "All I was hoping was just...What It Didn't. The 2024-25 season was supposed to be another year on the World Cup circuit. Instead, a bone infection ended it before it started. Not a...

...about what he wanted from these Games. "I still don't have individual...had been to three Paralympic Games. He had a team relay gold from...three individual silvers, four world titles, and the top ranking...and the top ranking in the world in visually impaired cross-country...simple navigation. At the 2026 Games, Adicoff competed with two guides:...

...home" photos. But these Games produced a set of moments...about what the Winter Games have become. Here are the...the Flag Into Her Sixth Games. In 2006, Laurie Stephens...for her sixth and final Games, also in Italy. She raced...opening ceremony at a UNESCO World Heritage Site was supposed...defining images of these Games. It was, but not only for...

...nothing to do with medals. After six Games, seven Paralympic medals, and 15 World...Games, seven Paralympic medals, and 15 World Championship podiums, the Team USA...she talked about how different this Games felt. "Most of my other Games I've...this Games felt. "Most of my other Games I've been a ball of anxiety," she said....

...site profiled before the Games as racing Beijing with...Milan his "redemption games." He got exactly that....a gold medal. She won World Championship silver last...but this was her first Games. She's the youngest of...Her First Gold of These Games. Kendall Gretsch won the...that includes multiple world championships across cross-country...

...Paralympian who has never won a medal at the Games, raced the men's sitting 10km at the...his second individual gold at these Games. Para cross-country skiing at Tesero...39 and racing at his eighth Winter Games. He is a world champion in para cross-country...at his eighth Winter Games. He is a world champion in para cross-country skiing...

...39 years old, an eight-time Paralympian, and a world champion in para cross-country skiing. He has two...para cross-country skiing. He has two individual world championship golds in para biathlon and a third...trained at the same venues and raced at the same Games across more than a decade. He has never won a Paralympic...

...his entire Paralympic career, four Games and a relay gold plus three individual...cross-country skiing's first events of these Games. The sport had not run yet at Milano...impaired cross-country, taking four world titles including a sweep of the 10km...10km and 20km VI events at the 2025 World Championships. The sprint is a distinct...

...and result is part of what makes the Games worth watching. Snowboard Cross: Silver...came into Milan ranked second in the world after winning silver at the 2025 World...World after winning silver at the 2025 World Championships, but knowing what someone...final, the top-ranked LL1 male in the world adding a Paralympic podium to match...

...Oksana Masters medaled in her first Games race in more than three years. Team...with real hope. She arrived with six World Championship golds and the defending...the relay on March 12. At the 2025 World Championships, she swept all three...start of another one. Masters: Five Games, Five...

...of 2024-25 to a bone infection, watching a full World Cup season go by from the sidelines. She rebuilt...Paralympic medal, the first for Team USA at the 2026 Games. "I did not expect this," Oksana Masters said afterward....three para biathlon sitting events at the 2025 World...