Top Beijing 2022 stars returning for Milano Cortina 2026
\nFrancesco Friedrich, Germany, bobsleigh<\/p>\n
It\u2019s difficult to think of an athlete in any sport who has been as dominant as German slider Francesco Friedrich<\/a>. The 35-year-old enters these Games in Italy with four Olympic golds and 18 world titles to his name – and is showing no signs of slowing down. At Beijing 2022, Friedrich blazed to gold in both the two-man and four-man events. At Milano Cortina 2026, he will have the chance to become the first athlete in bobsleigh<\/a> history to win five golds at the Games – and potentially even six.\u00a0<\/p>\n Eileen Gu, People\u2019s Republic of China, freestyle skiing<\/p>\n Things could hardly have gone better for Eileen Gu<\/a> when she took part in her first Olympic Winter Games four years ago. Competing in front of a home crowd, Gu became the first freestyle skier<\/a> ever to win three medals in a single edition of the Games, taking Big Air and halfpipe gold, as well as slopestyle silver. Can she repeat her heroics at Milano Cortina 2026? All will be revealed in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n Marco Odermatt, Switzerland, Alpine skiing<\/p>\n A four-time Overall World Cup winner, Marco Odermatt<\/a> wrote his name in Olympic history by winning gold in the Alpine skiing<\/a> giant slalom event at Beijing 2022. The 28-year-old Swiss has also won world titles in three different disciplines – downhill (2022), giant slalom (2023) and super-G (2025). Remarkable in his consistency, Odermatt\u2019s list of accolades includes the record for most points (2,042) and most victories (13) in a World Cup season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Arianna Fontana, Italy, short track<\/p>\n Already the most decorated Italian female Winter Olympian, and the short track speed skater with the most medals in Olympic history, Arianna Fontana<\/a> will aim to add to the 11 medals she has already won at the Winter Olympics during the upcoming Games. Milano Cortina 2026 represents the second Games Fontana has competed in at home, after she won bronze in the 3000m relay at Turin 2006<\/a>. Since then, the 35-year-old has claimed two gold medals in the 500m, with her victories coming in PyeongChang 2018<\/a> and Beijing 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n Quentin Fillon Maillet, France, biathlon<\/p>\n After becoming the first-ever biathlete<\/a> to win five medals at a single Games in Beijing, France\u2019s Quentin Fillon Maillet<\/a> will once again have his sights set on the podium at Milano Cortina 2026. The 33-year-old won gold in both the 12.5km pursuit and 20km individual events in the People\u2019s Republic of China, and only missed out on a medal in one of the six events he entered – the 15km mass start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Beijing 2022 stars returning for Milano Cortina 2026 Francesco Friedrich, Germany, bobsleigh It\u2019s difficult to think of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-261706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}