Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympics: Day 5

About this episode

The episode covers Day 5 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics, focusing on the challenges athletes face due to snow conditions and highlights from the mixed doubles wheelchair curling matches.

It's Day 5 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics, and the running theme of the Games seems to be, "It's getting hot," as the snow gets slushier in the heat. Athletes are using coded language (and sometimes not-so-coded) to express just how tough the snow conditions are, and how hard it is to compete under them. Jill and Alison went up to Cortina today for the medal round of mixed doubles wheelchair curling, which had amazing gameplay in both matches. Did Team Keep the Flame Alive's Steve Emt and Laura Dwyer beat the ice, or did the ice beat them? Para cross-country skiing was also on the docket today, and it featured several TKFLASTANIs climbing the podium. Who had a great day? Meanwhile, Jill opted for a culture morning and found something shocking at the post office. GRAND FINALE 150! Help us end our coverage of Milano Cortina 2026 on a high note by covering our train fare to the para ice hockey medal matches. Please chip in and help us get back to Milano to give para ice hockey the coverage it deserves! For a transcript of this episode, please visit http://flamealivepod.com . Thanks so much for listening, and until next time, keep the flame alive! Photo courtesy of OIS…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jill Jaracz, Alison Brown

Topics covered

• Winter Paralympics
• wheelchair curling
• para sports
• athlete performance
• snow conditions

Keywords

• Milano Cortina
• Winter Paralympics
• wheelchair curling
• para cross-country skiing
• athletes
• snow conditions

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Milano Cortina

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