The juiciest gossip about the 2026 Winter Olympics: Lindsey Vonn, Alysa Liu, the French ice dancing team, ski suit scandals, and Minions drama
The Sports Gossip Show
The Athletic
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Madeline and Charlotte are back with everything you need to know before the Winter Olympics kick off in Milan on Friday. The gals have you covered when it comes to juicy stories: Lindsey Vonn is skiing on a torn ACL, the Blade Angels are trying to get a gold medal for the US for the first time in two decades, engaged hockey stars are playing against each other, and a French ice dancing team is a mess.
Also: an Italian skater is dealing with Minions drama, Norwegians are punished for cheating in the crotch of ski suits, and Grindr has some new security measures for the games. The gals will be back next week after the Super Bowl to track the gossip as it goes down.
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| 0:25.1 | Hi, Madeline. |
| 0:25.9 | We're back. |
| 0:27.2 | We already got the giggles. |
| 0:28.3 | We got a case of the giggles, everybody. |
| 0:30.4 | Case of the gigs. |
| 0:31.3 | Um, yeah, welcome to our 26 Winter Olympics sports gossip preview. Woo. We got so much stuff in here. Oh my God, so much. |
| 0:42.4 | We can't. We love the Olympics. Yes. I love the Olympics. Yes. Like deep in my soul. Yep. And I, and I feel an affinity |
| 0:49.5 | for the cold mother sports. Oh. Well, yeah, you're from the Northeast. So that makes sense. |
| 0:54.1 | I cross country skied this winter. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah, of course you did. |
| 0:56.4 | She sent me a photo, and I fear we may need to insert it into the episode. Because you did text it to me, so I do have it. It's fair game. And I can send it to our editor, Micah. It's in Getty. What? I'm kidding. you're like yes i attended the event i called the paparazzi on myself yes yes yes yes back |
| 1:12.9 | back grid back well You're like, yes, I attended the event. I called the paparazzi on myself. |
| 1:11.9 | Yes, yes, yes, yes. Back grid. Well, it's backwoods kind of. Wait, it's backcountry. Back grid. Yeah. Country. Yeah. I love it. All right. All right. We're going to kick things off. Madeline, who are the flag bearers for Team USA? The flag bearers, I'm so glad you ask, |
| 1:29.0 | are Aaron Jackson, a speed skater who was the first black woman to win a Winter Olympic gold medal in an individual sport. It's awesome. At the, I believe it was the last winter. Wow. Which is also a little depressing, but here we are. Okay. But very exciting. very exciting and then frank del ducaukkah, a bobsledder. Frank Del Dukkah sounds like he's a bobsledder. Energetically, he does. Energetically. Yeah. And I love that for him. I love it. So those are Team USA flag bears. Summer Olympics was Lebron James. And oh, who was the other one? Sunni Lee? Because it's the photo of Lebron on the boat |
| 2:03.3 | on the Sen and it's raining and he looks like he's a founding father |
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