From Goggia to Brignone, via Franzoni: all the Alpine skiing Azzurri for Milan Cortina 2026
The members of the Italian National Alpine Ski Team for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan Cortina are officially defined. The Fisi, on Monday, in fact announced the names of the twenty-one summoned who will represent Italy in the five-circle event at home. The selection combines experience and talent, but also focuses on younger faces: the goal is clear, to be protagonists on the Stelvio slopes of Bormio and at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo, venues designated by the organizing committee.
The women’s group is made up of eleven athletes: the name of Federica Brignone, who performed a true sports miracle by returning in time for the Olympics after a very serious injury last spring, stands out, and there will also be Sofia Goggia, who wants to further improve her Olympic record. The other athletes are Elena Curtoni, Giada D’Antonio, Nadia and Nicol Delago, Lara Della Mea, Martina Peterlini, Laura Pirovano, Anna Trocker and Asja Zenere. For the very young D’Antonio (class of 2009) and Trocker (2008) it will be their first experience at the Games.
The men’s sector, on the other hand, has ten summonses: there will be Giovanni Franzoni, recent winner in Kitzbühel on the legendary Streif slope, along with Mattia Casse, Luca De Aliprandini, Christof Innerhofer, Tobias Kastlunger, Dominik Paris, Tommaso Saccardi, Tommaso Sala, Florian Schieder and Alex Vinatzer. Franzoni and Paris will be the references in the fast trials, while De Aliprandini and Vinatzer will lead the pack in the special slalom and giant slalom, aiming to surprise the competition and overturn more than one prediction.
The Olympic program will open on Feb. 4, a couple of days before the lighting of the brazier, with men’s downhill training, followed on Feb. 5 and 6 by practice sessions for both men and women. The first final, the men’s downhill, is scheduled for Feb. 7, while the women’s downhill will be held on Feb. 8.
On Feb. 9 and 10, space is given instead to the combined team events, first for men and then for women. On the 11th and 12th the two Super-Gs will be run: first the men, then the women. The last stage will be devoted to technical trials: men’s giant on the 14th and women’s the next day, men’s slalom on the 16th and women’s forty-eight hours later, on Feb. 18.
