Mammoth Mountain, California, has confirmed that a skier died on Thursday, February 5, 2026.
Mammoth Ski Patrol received a call at 1:00 p.m. local time that a skier had suffered a severe fall in ‘Dropout Chute 2’, a Double-Black Diamond, ungroomed slope accessed from the resort’s popular Chair 23.
Life-saving care was administered, and the victim was transported to a local hospital. The skier later passed away from their injuries.
Mammoth Mountain trail map. The arrow marks the location of The Dropout Chutes, where the death occurred.
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Eye-witnesses reported on Reddit that the accident was the “worst” they had ever seen. The skier allegedly lost their ski and slid head-first into a rock.
The incident marks the third death of the season at Mammoth. Ski Patroller Cole Murphy also tragically passed away in an avalanche in December.
Our thoughts and condolences are with the friends and family of the deceased.
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After drawing nearly 128 million viewers for last year’s game, Super Bowl LX is positioned to draw in even more fans around the world to watch the Big Game. However, football might be the centerpiece, viewers tune in for the over-the-top halftime show featuring Bad Bunny, big budget commercials and overall spectacle of, what is likely going to be, the biggest TV event of 2026.
For Super Bowl LX, at the end of the 2025-26 NFL season, the NFC champions the Seattle Seahawks (regular season: 14-3) faces off against the AFC champions New England Patriots (regular season: 14-3) at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on Sunday, Feb. 8. The game kickoffs at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT, but pregame coverage and performances start at 6 p.m. ET/3 pm.m ET.
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Team USA will be represented in all three major Nordic ski disciplines at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
Across the cross country, Nordic combined, and ski jumping disciplines, the USA has 20+ of the country’s most talented athletes. Perhaps most notably, the women’s cross-country team is led by Jessie Diggins, who will be competing in her fourth Olympic Games in Milan Cortina and looking to add to the three Olympic medals already in her name. Diggins, who is the most decorated American cross-country skier of all time, qualified for the Games following the World Cup in Trondheim, Norway, in December of 2025. She’s said the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games will be her last, and she plans to retire in March, after the rest of the World Cup season.
In Nordic combined, Ben Loomis will make his third Olympic appearance for the USA in Milan-Cortina and has been on the national team for 10 years. Loomis is joined by Niklas Malacinski, who is one of the 48 rookies on the US Stifel Ski Team. Malacinski is currently the only American man ranked in the top 30 on the World Cup circuit this year, with four top-20 finishes.
USA ski jumping is represented by a roster of six athletes, five of whom are Olympic rookies. Kevin Bickner, 29, will lead the group into his third Olympic Games. Bickner retired following the 2022 Beijing Games but returned to sport two years later, achieving two personal bests during the 2024-25 season. Alongside Bickner, USA ski jumping is represented by three-time national champion Tate Frantz, 20, and Jason Colby, 19. Colby earned 7th place at a World Cup stop earlier this year, which is the best placement earned by an American male in more than two decades. The three women qualified for Team USA in ski jumping are similarly talented. Annika Belshaw won her eighth national title this season and is the highest-ranked American woman on the World Cup circuit.
Here are the full rosters for Team USA in cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and ski jumping.
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Cross Country
Jessie Diggins (left) of Team United States and Julia Kern (right) of Team United States after the 10km Mass Start Free, Women’s Final Climb of the FIS World Cup Cross-Country Val di Fiemme.
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Women
Rosie Brennan, 37
Jessie Diggins, 34
Lauren Jortberg, 28
Julia Kern, 28
Kendall Kramer, 23
Novie McCabe, 24
Sammie Smith, 20
Hailey Swirbul, 27
Zanden McMullen competes at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Trondheim
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Men
John Steel Hagenbuch, 24
Zak Ketterson, 28
Zanden McMullen, 24
Ben Ogden, 25
James “JC” Schoonmaker, 25
Gus Schumacher, 25
Hunter Wonders, 27
Jack Young, 23
Niklas Malacinski of Team United States competes in the Cross-Country leg of Nordic Combined Mixed Team race.
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Nordic Combined
Ben Loomis, 27
Niklas Malacinski, 22
Ski Jumping
Paige Jones training at Milan Cortina 2026.
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Women
Annika Belshaw, 23
Josie Johnson, 19
Paige Jones, 23
Kevin Bickner in training at Milan Cortina 2026.
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Men
Kevin Bickner, 29
Jason Colby, 19
Tate Frantz, 20
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Six years ago, a low-quality web animation on Muslim Kids TV sparked an idea that would become “Time Hoppers: The Silk Road,” the first theatrically released animated feature made by and for the Muslim community.
The film opens Feb. 7 in over 660 U.S. theaters, marking a milestone for family entertainment and grassroots productions, demonstrating that independent animation can still draw audiences at a time when theatrical releases for the genre face significant challenges.
The animated feature follows four gifted children from the year 2050 who discover the ability to time travel and must protect history’s greatest scientists from an evil alchemist threatening the future of modern science along the ancient Silk Road.
Gabriel Milo, COO of Milo Productions, said the time-travel concept, in which children meet historical figures, first gained traction as a mobile game funded through Canadian production grants. Within three months, it surpassed 100,000 downloads, signaling strong demand for Muslim-centered content.
“For the first time, Muslim children will be able to see themselves reflected on the big screen,” Milo said. “That was something we saw was missing, and we saw a real market opportunity.”
Even as the industry trends away from theatrical releases, the filmmakers believed their audience craved a communal viewing experience. Early social media engagement reinforced that instinct, with requests pouring in from communities around the world.
Rather than rely on celebrity endorsements, the marketing strategy emphasized what Milo called “community credibility over celebrity.” Community leaders, educators and religious scholars were cast in voice roles, including the character Dean Hafsa. That trust-based approach extended to a nationwide network of volunteer “local champions,” who used promotional toolkits to drive ticket sales in their regions.
Shannah Miller, vice president of marketing at distributor Fathom Entertainment, recognized the model’s potential early on. Fathom, which handles roughly 100 specialty releases each year, saw “Time Hoppers” as an opportunity to expand beyond its core faith-based audience, which accounted for nearly half of the company’s revenue last year.
“This was a first,” Miller said. “The content was created by the Muslim community for the Muslim community, and it felt authentic, while still being accessible to a broader audience.”
The partnership between Milo Productions and Fathom proved critical to the film’s rollout. Milo provided data on community demographics and priority markets, while Fathom leveraged its exhibitor relationships to expand bookings and add showtimes as demand grew — sometimes within hours.
“We’d email Fathom, and within an hour the tickets were live,” Milo said.
Originally scheduled at 516 locations for Feb. 7-8, exhibitor demand quickly pushed the release past 660 theaters, with pre-sales outpacing expectations. More than 35,000 tickets have been sold — nearly $500,000 in revenue — with the majority of purchases still expected in the final days before release.
“We’re up more than 35% in pre-sales since Monday,” Miller said. “And historically, 70% of tickets sell in the last 72 to 48 hours.”
For a one-day event built around new IP and an underserved audience, the film’s performance is notable. Its “edutainment” approach is designed to spark curiosity rather than deliver formal lessons, supported by companion workbooks and coloring books developed with historians.
“Our goal is intrigue,” Milo said. “We want kids to ask questions and want to learn more.” Beyond box office numbers, the release reflects the potential for original stories from underrepresented communities to connect with audiences, even as Hollywood relies heavily on established IP.
“Underserved audiences will show up,” Milo said. “They’ll show up for authentic voices that represent them.” While rooted in Muslim history and culture, the film’s broader themes of education, curiosity and pride in heritage have encouraged the community to welcome wider audiences. Fathom supported that outreach with targeted trailer placement and partnerships with exhibitors, including educational tie-ins for school groups.
The model is already translating overseas. In Canada, bookings grew from 15 to nearly 40 Landmark Cinemas locations, covering more than 90% of the exhibitor’s footprint. As “Time Hoppers: The Silk Road” heads into theaters, it arrives amid a rising appetite for animation and stories outside traditional studio formulas. For Milo and Miller, the takeaway is clear: there’s an audience eager for representation, and when approached authentically, they’ll turn out in force.
“This is genuine support,” Miller said. “People are excited to see themselves on screen, and that’s powerful.”
Surrounded by mesmerizing Italian Dolomites beauty, the Olympia delle Tofane courses will be showcased like never before as the world’s elite female ski racers charge full throttle at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
All five women’s alpine ski events will be contested on the venerable piste, the same slope that Austrian legend Toni Sailer sailed to downhill gold on at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
Echoing the sentiments of most racers, Olympic skiing and snowboarding champion Ester Ledecka adores the visually stunning Italian course, which has been an annual FIS World Cup stop since 1993.
“I really like this hill, it’s my favorite actually,” said the Czech athlete Ledecka. “It has a very nice flow, a lot of challenging spots, and every year they groom the rollers differently, so every time we ski it, it’s a little bit different.
“I love how they prepare the course—there are ruts, but it’s not too icy, so it is really nice to ski. It’s always fun to come to Cortina.”
Passionate Italian ‘Tifosi’ will be cheering vociferously for the 33-year-old Sofia Goggia, the 2018 Olympic downhill champion and four-time World Cup race winner in Cortina. The extroverted Italian skier, who is known for pushing limits and taking unmitigated risk, sustained significant falls and injuries on the Olympia delle Tofane, in both 2022 and 2023. Yet, she always bounces back.
“For us Italians, it’s always a special place here in Cortina, and today I felt like I had my heart in my throat,” Goggia told reporters after her victory in January 2025.
The course’s Tofana Schuss signature section carries a 65% gradient and provides compelling theater for audiences. Racers dive between two colossal rock outcroppings reaching speeds over 80 miles per hour, embellishing the slope’s mystique.
Additional pivotal sections include the “Duca d’Aosta Jump,” the “Delta” blind turn, and the technically difficult “Gran Curvone” and “Scarpadon.” The downhill track runs roughly 1.6 miles and boasts a vertical drop of 2,500 feet.
Goggia’s Italian teammate and two-time overall World Cup champion Federica Brignone has made tremendous strides on her journey back from injury, having broken multiple bones in her left leg at the Italian championships in April. Her surprise sixth-place finish on her return to racing at a Kronplatz World Cup GS a few weeks ago was extremely encouraging. Nicknamed the ‘Tiger’, Brignone’s feelings run deep about the historic course and its spectacular setting.
“Always in love here—it’s an amazing place, amazing food, amazing atmosphere, and after skiing this snow today, I love it even more,” Brignone said, after a Cortina World Cup super-G victory last January.
Mikaela Shiffrin will pursue a third and possibly fourth Olympic gold medal, focusing on giant slalom and slalom, and potentially super-G.
The Colorado skier is also a reigning world champion alongside teammate Breezy Johnson in the new team combined event. Shiffrin is ecstatic to return to the Italian resort, aiming to make amends after missing out on medals in Beijing 2022.
“Cortina is one of my favorite places to be and I’m so excited to be in a place that is familiar,” Shiffrin said. “That familiarity is really key, especially after the last Games in China.
“The U.S. women’s team is stacked—we have a lot of women with medal potential,” she adds.
The Olympia delle Tofane slope is revered for hosting speed events, but it infrequently holds technical races. In giant slalom at the 2021 FIS World Championships, the last time the tech discipline was contested there, the Colorado racer skied to a silver medal, just .02 seconds behind Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami.
Shiffrin has experienced both success and setbacks on the frequently sunny piste. In January 2024, she lost control approaching the Tofana Schuss and barreled into the safety netting. Fortunately, the five-time overall World Cup champion walked away relatively unscathed with only a sprained MCL and tibiofibular ligament in her left knee.
The Olympic race program kicks off in style with the signature women’s Downhill on the second day of the Games, Sunday, February 8th.
Dual sport star Ester Ledecka will most likely not be at the start due to a scheduling conflict with the snowboard PGS, in which she is the two-time defending Olympic champion.
The Czech athlete is expected to join the alpine events in Cortina for the Super-G on Thursday, Feb. 12. It will be her third consecutive Olympic skiing/snowboarding double.
Sandwiched between the two speed disciplines is the new team combined event, taking place on Tuesday, February 10. Shiffrin and U.S. teammate Breezy Johnson joined forces to capture a world title in the event in Austria last February.
Tech events launch with the Giant Slalom on Sunday, Feb. 15.
All eyes will be on Shiffrin as she seeks a second Olympic slalom gold medal, her first coming in Sochi 2014 as an inexperienced 18-year-old. The Slalom concludes the alpine program on Wednesday, Feb. 18.
Lindsey Vonn reacts after crashing as she competes in the women’s downhill in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
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Top Racers/Contenders For Medals, Speed Events
Excluding home nation favorite Goggia, who thrives when the stakes are high, the women’s downhill could prove difficult to handicap.
The Lindsey Vonn comeback story continues dramatically on a piste that she has been victorious on a record 12 times (6 downhill, 6 super-G). Racing on a reconstructed titanium leg, Vonn disproved doubters with a World Cup win in the season-opening downhill in St. Moritz, on Dec. 12. Since her hot start, she has landed on three consecutive downhill podiums.
The 41-year-old racer, who captured Olympic downhill gold in Vancouver 2010 and bronze in PyeongChang 2018, seeks to defy the odds and age to attain a third Olympic downhill medal. However, upon Vonn’s return to Cortina last season after six years of retirement, she crashed two times over four days of training and racing.
To make matters more difficult, Vonn crashed and tore her ACL just one week before the Olympics were scheduled to start. She’s determined to compete, regardless of the injury.
Veteran Swiss skier Corinne Suter is striving to defend her Olympic title, battling to return to form after a training crash in St. Moritz in early December. She is attempting to become only the second racer to repeat gold in the event after Germany’s Katja Seizinger (1994 & 1998).
American Breezy Johnson rebounded from injuries and a 14-month suspension for drug testing whereabouts violations to win world championship gold last season. Johnson chases her first Olympic medal at her second Winter Games.
Breezy Johnson celebrates after securing a third-place finish in Super-G on January 31, 2026 in Crans Montana, Switzerland.
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Flying under the radar is U.S. veteran Jackie Wiles, who has found top speed in Cortina before, landing on World Cup podiums in 2018 and 2024. When not charging downhill on skis, Wiles pilots Cessna airplanes.
Norwegian Kajsa Vickoff Lie, German Emma Aichner, and a talented Austrian squad led by proven winners Cornelia Huetter, Mirjam Puchner, and Stephanie Venier could all ski into the medal hunt.
Injured and unable to compete in Italy are Swiss three-time Olympic medalist and Cortina 2021 double world champion Lara Gut-Behrami and U.S. rising star Lauren Macuga. Both sustained season-ending injuries in pre-season training crashes.
Including the Czech Republic’s extroverted skier/snowboarder Ledecka, all racers noted should also contend for super-G hardware.
Shiffrin continues to astonish in slalom, having won seven of eight races in her favorite disipline this Olympic season. Her dominat victories have come by ridiculous margins, including 1.66, 1.23, 1.57, 1.55, and 1.67 seconds most recently at a race in Spindleruv Mlyn in Czechia, where she begain her illustrious careeer 15 years ago.
Who will emerge as Shiffrin’s toughest challengers in slalom? Other than where to find the best pizza in Cortina, that may be the second biggest question asked around the Italian Olympic venue.
Shiffrin won Olympic slalom gold in Sochi 2014 and GS gold in PyeongChang 2018. The 30-year-old GOAT of the sport also claimed GS silver and slalom bronze on Cortina’s slopes at the 2021 world championships.
In addition to Shiffrin’s very capable U.S. teammate Paula Moltzan, other slalom threats shoulld include World Cup globe winner Zrinka Ljutic of Croatia, Swiss Camille Rast and Wendy Holdener, German Lena Duerr and Albania’s young sensation Lara Colturi.
Team USA skier Paula Moltzan.
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Smooth skiing Swede Sarah Hector is the defending Olympic giant slalom champion and will attempt to hold off Shiffrin and others to repeat in the event.
Moltzan, who has displayed good form standing on multiple GS podiums this season, and Nina O’Brien, who crashed violently in the Olympic GS four years ago, join Shiffrin leading Team USA’s charge.
Australian rising star Alice Robinson sped to her first World Cup victory in Colorado in November, while Austrian Julia Scheib is another maiden GS winner this season who carries the lofty expectations of her ski racing-nuts nation.
The BAFTA Film Awards have set E! as their home across the pond this year.
Hosted by “The Traitors” star Alan Cumming, the awards ceremony — which celebrates the best in British and global film — will broadcast on E! in the U.S. on Feb. 22 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Britbox previously had the broadcast rights to the BAFTAs in the States. In the U.K., the awards will air on BBC One and iPlayer.
The 2026 nominees are led by Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic “One Battle After Another” with 14 nods, followed by Ryan Coogler’s historical horror “Sinners” with 13. Alongside those two, the race for best film also includes “Hamnet,” “Marty Supreme” and “Sentimental Value.”
This year’s BAFTA Film Awards nominees also include plenty of local British fare, including several noms for indie titles “I Swear,” “Pillion” and “The Ballad of Wallis Island.” Robert Aramayo, the breakout star of “I Swear,” is even competing in the leading actor race alongside the likes of Timothée Chalamet (“Marty Supreme”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“One Battle After Another”), Ethan Hawke (“Blue Moon”), Michael B. Jordan (“Sinners”) and Jesse Plemons (“Bugonia”).
In recent years, the BAFTAs have increasingly become a bellwether for the Oscars, with the two ceremonies lining up in 2025 on the winners for best actress (Mikey Madison for “Anora”), best actor (Adrien Brody for “The Brutalist”), supporting actor (Kieran Culkin for “A Real Pain”) and supporting actress (Zoe Saldaña for “Emilia Pérez”). With final Oscars voting ending on March 5, it remains to be seen how much this year’s BAFTAs’ winners list affects that of the Academy Awards.
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