Wyoming’s Jaelin Kauf Wins Silver At Olympics

Make that two 2026 Olympic medals so far that have been claimed by Wyomingites.

Freestyle skier Jaelin Kauf won a silver medal in moguls on Wednesday. This would be her second career silver.

Kauf is from Alta, Wyoming.

“It’s really cool to have another Olympic medal, to take silver home again,” Kauf told USA Today. “But, I mean, today I was really just trying to ski for myself today. This is the cherry on top.”

Let's watch her run in the video below and see if you think you could do this, but also do it in the time she did it in.

This event is not just downhill, but lots of quick lefts and rights, and a few high-flying flips in mid-air.

Mogul skiing, commonly shortened to moguls, is a freestyle skiing competition consisting of one timed run of free skiing on a steep, heavily moguled course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers, and speed.
Wyoming's own Breezy Johnson won a gold on Sunday in the women’s downhill competition.

GO BREEZY!

Another Wyoming winner at the 2026 Olympics is Breezy Johnson. She won the women's downhill gold medal with a time of 1:36.10, reaching speeds of over 80 mph. She secured the USA's first gold of the Milano Cortina Games, navigating the challenging, high-speed Olympia delle Tofane course to beat Germany's Emma Aicher by 0.04 seconds.

Scroll to 3:30 in this video to watch Breezy receive her gold medal.

Here are the Wyoming women you want to watch for in the 2026 Olympics

Jackson Hole native and alpine racer Breezy Johnson (don't you just love her name) represents the U.S. in the high-speed downhill in the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy. Wyoming and the United States can proudly say that she’s the reigning world champion in the sport.

Then there is Jaelin Kauf, from Alta, Wyoming. Kauf won a silver medal in the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing and was the world champion last year.

Anna Gibson is a native of Jackson Hole. will compete in the first-ever Olympic Ski Mountaineering competition. This new event is a combination of skiing up and down snowbound alpine terrain.

This new competition is BRUTAL. It's not just skiing downhill and letting gravity do its thing.

Ski mountaineering (Skimo) debuts at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, featuring intense races combining uphill climbs with skins, boot-packing sections, and fast downhill skiing, with events including men's sprint, women's sprint, and a mixed relay, showcasing endurance and technical skill in alpine terrain.

Athletes use lightweight skis with climbing skins for ascents and transition rapidly between climbing, running in boots, and skiing down to the finish.

The video below will let you see how this works.

So, grab some popcorn and watch our Wyoming girls. Let's cheer them on.