Here are 14 photos from the men’s Olympic Super Team ski jumping event which took place at the Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium on Monday 16 February, 2026.

Above is Slovenia’s Domen Prevc, the best jumper in the world at the moment, who won two gold medals at Milano Cortina, one in the long hill competition and another in the mixed team event along with his younger sister, Nika, who also took silver in the normal hill event and bronze on the long hill. (We also attended the latter but alas sans camera.)

Milano Cortina 26 were the sixth Olympic Games I’ve attened, my first Winter Games and my first as a spectator since Atlanta 1996. That meant, among other things, that I wasn’t one of the last to leave a venue after the competition ended. And that I got to experience the mildly chaotic spectator parking system that many have been ranting about over much of the past two weeks.

Austria won this event after a heavy if brief snow storm cancelled the third and final round, with Slovenia finishing fifth and thus denying Prevc a third medal. I’m not a big fan of this set-up. Team competitions usually feature four jumpers; the IOC has reduced that number here, with two jumpers taking up to three jumps (if they qualify to the second and final rounds), swapping depth for what could be in theory a greater number a teams that can participate. That’s not a terrible concept, I just don’t see it as a true measure of what a team competition should be. Turning it into a mixed team competition could work better, and would bring gender parity to the discipline.

Predazzo, a town of about five thousand, lies in the Val di Fiemme, which served as one of four competition clusters for the Games. (The cross country skiing venues in Tesero were about 10km away.) We stayed in Trento, about 60km to the west, but the drive took well over an hour, given the windy two lane mountain roads. The routes were certainly picturesque, with some stunning views of the Dolomites that dominate the area, so we enjoyed the drives and turned them into a major part of our Olympic experience.

That does illustrate the distances that these Olympics, spread over more than 22,00 sq kilometres, covered. They were the most geographically dispersed Games in history, an intentional descentralized design that allowed planners to use existing venues rather than constructing (very) expensive new ones. Organizers said that more than 90 percent of the venues were existing or temporary. Some of the venues, albeit refurbished, dated back to the Cortina Olympics in 1956. That helped its sustainability credentials.

I did enjoy the late hour snow fall. Experiencing a fresh few centimeters of snow during a Winter Olympics is a rare treat these days — given the 15C+ temperatures in Milano, a drive of nearly four hours from Predazzo (an nearly six from Cortina), it was good to see that the three competition clusters in the mountains did get some snow.

The volunteers, who came from 98 countries, were friendly, fun-loving and easy-going, matching well the mountain vibe. The polenta with mushrooms was a tasty nice local touch; the mulled wine not so much.

Ten more images below. Spectators are not allowed to bring cameras with long lenses into Olympic venues –max allowed camera width is 20cm—so these were all taken with an 18-135 zoom and significantly cropped.