Explore which states have the highest number of athletes competing for the U.S. Olympic team at the 2026 Winter Games, and search for your own hometown.

Whether they were born or just play in the Sunshine State, about two dozen athletes came to the 2026 Olympics from Florida.

Athletes have the opportunity to adopt or foster plants in the Olympic Village and some have even put a fun, "Heated Rivalry" twist on the hobby.

No short list of athletes to watch at an Olympics is ever complete. But here are our picks for 26 of the biggest non-U.S. names to watch.

Olympic athletes are not paid by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), but are instead paid by their respective countries. The IOC, instead, redistributes its funding to the development of sporting activity around the world, according to CNN.

Matt C. Smith, a South African cross-country skier, plans on reviewing all the food in the Olympic Village, starting off with two beloved Italian dishes: pizza and lasagna. He says the pizza is an 8.5 out of 10 but the lasagna is just “good.”

Given the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigration in Minnesota, the red, white, and blue is not widely saluted on these streets — other than by the Americans who made the trip here.

In some ways, the goals Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris set for the Milan Cortina Olympics are the same ones he set in his three previous appearances at the Games. “Landing when it matters, landing how I want to,