In the thick of Winter Olympic qualification season, U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced four Alpine ski additions to a Team USA roster that already included Mikaela Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn and Paula Moltzan.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle (USA) is heading to Milan Cortina for his third-career Winter Games. The 33-year-old was the only Alpine skier, man or woman, to earn a medal at Beijing 2022, picking up silver in the super-G. The star-making performance came 50 years to the day after his mom, Barbara Cochran, won slalom gold at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics.

Since achieving the accolade, RCS has been a consistent top 10, top 15 World Cup speed racer, and earlier this season, he threw down an impressive downhill run in Beaver Creek to take home second place. On the whole, podium finishes largely have eluded Cochran-Siegle in the last Olympiad (reaching two in four years), and he won’t be a favorite in Milan Cortina. However, he wasn’t a favorite in Beijing either and he did just fine there.

The Burlington, Vermont native represents one of the best chances the U.S. men have of finding success in Alpine at the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio, and he’ll have the opportunity to do so (likely) both in downhill and super-G.

Accompanying RCS on Team USA is a man with perhaps just as good of a shot — perhaps better — at taking home a medal. River Radamus (USA) will compete in his second Olympic Games, as confirmed on his Instagram handle in a collab post with U.S. Ski & Snowboard. 

Unlike his teammate, who left Beijing with hardware, Radamus experienced heartbreak. He narrowly missed out on a podium in two separate events: the giant slalom and now defunct team parallel. In GS, he came within 27 hundredths of a second from bronze. 

“I had dedicated my entire life to preparing for that moment, to preparing for the Olympics, and had the posters on my wall and all the rest,” he told NBC Olympics in July. “I remember sitting there in the finish, watching the podium ceremony and just feeling like such a failure.”

The 27-year-old, who will turn 28 a day before he competes in the giant slalom at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, is seeking redemption. He’s steadily improved his World Cup performance this season, picking up four top-7 finishes in his last four technical races, and thus, might be peaking at the right time. Outside of GS, he’s also likely to compete in super-G.

Nina O’Brien became the fourth woman selected to join Team USA. The San Francisco native, who got her degree in economics from Dartmouth College, also is in search of better fortune at the Winter Olympics (her second).

At the Beijing Games, O’Brien threw down a terrific first giant slalom run, recording the sixth-fastest time. However, she crashed just before the finish line of her second run and sustained a compound fracture of her tibia and fibula. 

“This isn’t the way that I dreamed for my Olympics to go,” she told Today two days after the horrifying fall. “I don’t think it’s how any athlete wants to end their Olympics.”

“But Seeing Ryan Cochran-Siegle win that silver that next day brought tears to my eyes because I know what he’s been through and the resilience he’s shown, and that was really inspiring to me.”

O’Brien probably was referring to when RCS broke his neck, about a year before his silver medal triumph. She’ll have the opportunity to add a hopefully more positive chapter to her Olympic story.

Finally, Ryder Sarchett (USA) will make his Olympic debut in Milan Cortina, it was announced. The 22-year-old has shown promise this World Cup season, collecting his first-career Cup points in Beaver Creek and less than a week later, delivering an emphatic performance in Val d'Isère, finishing 10th after starting 52nd.

Alpine skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics begins with downhill training on Feb. 4. Catch the action on Peacock, NBC, USA and NBCSN.