{"id":295169,"date":"2026-02-17T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295169\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:20:07","slug":"israelis-make-their-2026-winter-olympics-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295169\/","title":{"rendered":"Israelis make their 2026 Winter Olympics mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s athletes were back in action Monday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-885097\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Olympics in Milan<\/a>, with the bobsleigh duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/sports\/article-886584\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJ Edelman<\/a> and Menachem Chen, as well as skier Barnabas Szollos, competing in their respective events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Szollos took to the slopes for the first run of the men\u2019s slalom, a different discipline from the giant slalom in which he had already competed earlier in the Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He had an impressive two runs and finished 27th out of 46 competitors to complete the challenging course.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Israel\u2019s two-man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-885889\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bobsleigh<\/a> team of Edelman and Chen completed their first two heats. The pair posted a combined time of 1:54.60 and currently sit in 26th place overall, last among the 26 teams in the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">They will return to the track tomorrow for the final two heats, which will determine the overall rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s athletes were back in action Monday at the Winter Olympics in Milan, with the bobsleigh duo of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6659,85,46,106,43,6661,105,119554],"class_list":{"0":"post-295169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-sports","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-olympics","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-winter-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295169","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=295169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}