Winter Olympics

Skating for Two: Max Naumov Honors Late Parents with Emotional Olympic Performance

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The arena in Milan fell silent. Not the anticipatory hush that precedes every Olympic skater, but something deeper—a collective holding of breath. When Maxim Naumov pushed off into his first glide at the 2026 Winter Games, he was not alone on the ice. Somewhere between the strokes of Chopin’s “Nocturne No. 20,” between the quad … Read more

The Frozen Gamble: Can Milan-Cortina 2026 Skate Italy’s Ice Sports into the Mainstream?

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The roar that erupts from the San Siro on a Sunday afternoon is unlike anything else in Italian sport. It is tribal, visceral, and absolute. For generations, Calcio—Italian soccer—has not merely been a game in this country; it has been a cultural identity, a secular religion practiced in cathedrals of concrete and passion from Turin to … Read more