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The Youth and Senior Ski Mountaineering National Team trials in Kayseri, Turkey, in December 2025 Senior Correspondent Another Olympics, another sport to pique our curiosity. The Games seem to be ...

University of Utah freshman Landon Jakob just wanted to avoid sitting on a stationary bike all winter to stay in shape for his high school mountain bike racing team, when he first tried the newest ...

Move over, figure skating and ice hockey: There’s a new Olympic sport taking to the slopes of Italy. Ski mountaineering, or “skimo,” is the first entirely new sport at the Winter Olympics since 2002.

Ski mountaineering, or "skimo," made its official Olympic debut with men's and women's sprint races. Americans Anna Gibson and Cameron Smith were among the first athletes to compete in the new Olympic ...

Kirsty Coventry, elected last March as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, touts the Milan Cortina Winter Games that officially open Friday as "the most gender-balanced ...

Here's a quick ski mountaineering (aka skimo) primer and the full schedule of the skimo events at the 2026 Winter Games. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming ...

The sport of ski mountaineering is making its debut at the Winter Olympics in Italy this year. Skimo, as athletes call it today, involves racing up steep mountains on skis before turning around and ...

Welcome to the Last Chair with Jack O'Brien, a new backpage-style column that will focus on human-interest stories and ski culture. A new installment will run every other week. I’ll readily admit it.

SALT LAKE CITY — University of Utah freshman Landon Jakob just wanted to avoid sitting on a stationary bike all winter to stay in shape for his high school mountain bike racing team, when he first ...