{"id":138739,"date":"2026-02-19T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138739\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:07:10","slug":"what-is-skimo-this-is-the-newest-winter-olympic-sport-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138739\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SkiMo? This is the newest Winter Olympic sport \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From trudging up a mountain to immediately skiing down it, Anne Thompson explores the intricacies of the latest addition to the Winter Olympics: ski mountaineering, also known as &#8220;SkiMo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who won the first Olympic ski mountaineering medal?<\/p>\n<p>The sport of ski mountaineering made its long-awaited Olympics debut Thursday and crowned its first champion at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Cortina Games<\/a>\u00a0in Marianne Fatton of Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>With snow falling, Fatton navigated the uphill-then-downhill course lined with a diamond-shaped pattern and stairs in a lung-searing time of 2 minutes, 59.77 seconds. She edged\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ski-mountaineering-skimo-harrop-milan-cortina-games-3c9926017a3e1284f22a9f7fbf6f6e3b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Harrop of France<\/a>\u00a0by 2.38 seconds. Ana Alonso Rodriguez of Spain took bronze as she competed on a torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p>Ski mountaineering, which is called \u201cskimo\u201d for short, was voted into the Olympic program in 2021. The falling snow provided a fitting backdrop for a niche Alpine sport that traces its roots back to the late 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>This particular gold medal carried a lot of weight given the stakes. Fatton claims the coveted title of \u201cfirst ever\u201d to earn an Olympic title in their sport.<\/p>\n<p>It took enduring three rounds that last about three or so minutes each that stressed their endurance levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From trudging up a mountain to immediately skiing down it, Anne Thompson explores the intricacies of the latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29209,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-138739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}