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Every Olympic jock was calved for greatness, but immoderate person it virtually written into their DNA.
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Here are 25 athletes astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics whose parents are erstwhile Olympians:
1. US bobsledder Azaria Hill is the daughter of US way and tract jock Denean Howard-Hill (who won golden astatine Los Angeles 1984, metallic astatine Seoul 1988, and metallic astatine Barcelona 1992) and boxer Virgil Hill, Sr. (who won metallic astatine Los Angeles 1984).
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Azaria told Women's Health, "It decidedly instilled the competitory nature, drive, and enactment ethic that I inactive person to this day. ... They're ace excited due to the fact that I'm the archetypal jock successful our household to beryllium pursuing a wintertime sport."
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2. Mexican alpine skier Lasse Gaxiola is the lad of chap alpine skier American Mexican Sarah Schleper, who's competed for some the US and Mexico. She skied for the US astatine Nagano 1998, Salt Lake City 2002, Torino 2006, and Vancouver 2010. Then, aft becoming a Mexican national done her husband, Federico Gaxiola, successful 2014, she competed for Mexico successful PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022. Sarah had retired from skiing earlier deciding to instrumentality to the slopes to correspond her caller country.
Lasse and Sarah are some representing Mexico astatine Milano Cortina 2026. It's the first time successful Olympic past that a parent and lad volition some vie successful the aforesaid athletics for the aforesaid state astatine the aforesaid time.
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Announcing the quality connected Instagram, she said, "Today's quality reflects years of passionateness for my sport. Countless laps connected the slopes and a full committedness to my son. This travel has besides strengthened our narration arsenic parent and son, grooming unneurotic and ever supporting each other. This world is inactive settling successful for us. We are arrogant and grateful for the emotion and enactment of our family, friends, sponsors, and the full skiing community. It is an grant and a privilege to correspond Mexico, the astir spectacular state connected the planet. Viva Mexico!"
3. US fig skater Maxim Naumov is the son of precocious Russian pairs skaters Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, who competed astatine Albertville 1992 and Lillehammer 1994.
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His parents were among the 67 who were killed successful a level clang with a US Army Black Hawk chopper successful 2025. Competing successful the Olympics was a imagination that they talked astir "every day, twelvemonth aft year," and helium stepped up arsenic the on-ice manager of their Tomorrow's Champions program.
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Maxim told People, "I consciousness their beingness everyplace that I go. ... I perceive their voices, similar what they accidental to me, each those lessons that we had each azygous time for years. I person memories that are burned into my head, of definite corrections connected jumps and things similar that...or they're laughing astir thing oregon telling me, 'Don't hide to constituent your toes.' ... They taught maine values of resilience, hard work, dedication and ne'er giving up."
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4. Malaysian alpine skier Aruwin Salehhuddin is the daughter of Malaysian slalom canoer Salehhuddin Bin Ayob (aka Sal Ayob), who competed astatine Atlanta 1996.
Aruwin is the archetypal pistillate jock to ever correspond Malaysia astatine the Winter Games, and she's 1 of lone 4 Malaysian Winter Olympians successful history. She told Olympics.com, "When I was little, I ever told my mom, 'I privation to beryllium similar my dad. I privation to spell to the Olympics for Malaysia.' ... All these years, he's done an astonishing occupation supporting me. He's travelled the satellite for me, to assistance me, to usher me. I deliberation that's the champion portion of having an Olympian dad. He's played specified a immense portion successful my beingness arsenic a skier, arsenic an athlete. He is my relation model.”
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5. US cross-country skier Novie McCabe is the daughter of chap US cross-country skier Laura McCabe, who competed astatine Lillehammer 1994 and Nagano 1998.
Novie told KXLY, "I retrieve proceeding stories of her Olympic acquisition erstwhile I was younger and trying connected her apparel and stuff."
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6. Team GB curler Hammy McMillan Jr. is the son of chap Team GB curler Hammy McMillan Sr., who competed astatine Albertville 1992 and Salt Lake City 2002.
Hammy Jr. told CBC Sports, "People ever inquire the question, americium I Hammy's son? ... It was ever a sanction I thought I had to unrecorded up to astatine 1 point."
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7. US crystal dancer Anthony Ponomarenko is the son of Russian pairs skaters Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko. Competing for the Soviet Union, they won bronze astatine Sarajevo 1984 and metallic astatine Calgary 1988. Then, competing for the Unified Team (a combined squad consisting of athletes from 5 erstwhile Soviet countries — Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Uzbekistan), they won golden astatine Albertville 1992.
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Marina connected her lad with his crystal creation partner, Christina Carreira, aft noticing her astatine the Lake Placid Ice Dance Championship.
Anthony told NBC Bay Area, "It's comic due to the fact that they didn't privation maine to fig skate. They were like, 'Our sons volition beryllium wholly normal. They won't spot the crystal rink.'" However, erstwhile helium visited an crystal rink with his mom, helium was "like a wind-up artifact conscionable close away" and "just fell successful love" with fig skating.
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8. Austrian alpine skier Johannes Strolz is the son of chap Austrian alpine skier Hubert Strolz, who won a metallic medal and a golden medal astatine Calgary 1988.
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When Johannes won golden astatine Beijing 2022, helium told ESPN, "It's truly a large infinitesimal for me, and I'm truthful thankful that I yet tin unrecorded my imagination and person this golden medal successful my hands similar my begetter did successful 1988 successful Calgary and, yeah, conscionable a imagination travel true. The golden medal truly means the satellite to me."
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9. US biathlete Joanne Reid is the daughter of US velocity skater Beth Reid (formerly Heiden), who won bronze astatine Lake Placid 1980. Joanne's uncle, Eric Heiden, is besides a erstwhile Olympic velocity skater. He made his Olympic debut astatine Innsbruck 1976, and past helium won golden medals astatine Lake Placid 1980.
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Beth told NPR, "[Joanne's skiing is] distinctive. It astir apt looks a small spot similar my skiing due to the fact that she skied batch of years down me. People accidental I skis similar a velocity skater, and that she skis similar a velocity skater also."
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10. Canadian velocity skater Béatrice Lamarche is the daughter of chap Canadian velocity skater Benoît Lamarche, who competed astatine Sarajevo 1984 and Calgary 1988. Additionally, her aunt, Canadian velocity skater Marie-Pierre Lamarche, competed astatine Calgary 1988.
She told the Calgary Herald, "My parents signed america up, and I ne'er felt immoderate pressure. They were ever precise encouraging of america being active. For sure, I person immoderate bully genetics. All of my household is blessed to spot maine bash truthful well. My dada travels a batch to spot maine skate. It's amusive to cognize that your parents cognize your world and what you're going through."
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11. US alpine skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle is the son of chap US alpine skier Barbara Ann Cochran, who won the golden successful elephantine slalom astatine Sapporo 1972. Additionally, his relative is two-time Olympic skier Jimmy Cochran (Torino 2006 and Vancouver 2010).
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He told WBALTV11, "I person grown up with her sharing that story. Getting to benignant of perceive that excitement that she has, adjacent now, 50 years ago, knowing the interaction and that affectional transportation she has to the athletics of skiing and to truthful galore radical is beauteous empowering... To present autumn successful her footsteps successful a definite mode and acquisition that connected my own, there's conscionable truthful overmuch transportation we person due to the fact that of that."
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12. US fig skater Ilia Malinin is the son of Uzbekistani fig skaters Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who some competed astatine Nagano 1998 and Salt Lake City 2002.
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Ilia told Time, "They didn't privation maine to skate. They didn't truly speech astir their careers oregon however they skated [at the Olympics]. They knew however hard it was — however overmuch time, effort, and sacrifice goes into it — and they wanted maine to person a antithetic life." However, helium started skating astatine the rink wherever his parents coached, due to the fact that helium was often determination with them. As they realized however talented and dedicated their lad was, they supported his skating dreams.
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13. Japanese fig skater Kagiyama Yuma is the son of chap Japanese fig skater Kagiyama Masakazu, who competed astatine Albertville 1992 and Lillehammer 1994.
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Yuma told Olympics.com, "My begetter is the stone to me. There were times erstwhile I don't deliberation I could person made it connected my own."
14. German velocity skater Victoria Stirnemann is the daughter of chap German velocity skater Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, who has 1 bronze medal (Lillehammer 1994), 4 metallic medals (Albertville 1992, Lillehammer 1994, and 2 from Nagano 1998), and 3 golden medals (two from Albertville 1992 and 1 from Nagano 1998).
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Watching her ma manager young skaters inspired Victoria to travel successful her footsteps. She told Olympics.com, "I saw her astatine the track. I was determination with my dada to prime her up. I said, 'Why can't I bash that?' And past I was unstoppable. ... I'm truly fortunate due to the fact that she’s my inspiration."
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15. Canadian velocity skater Laura Hall is the daughter of chap Canadian velocity skater Michael Hall, who competed astatine Lillehammer 1994.
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16. Canadian velocity skater Daniel Hall is Michael Hall's son. Daniel is 2 years younger than Laura. Both siblings are connected the agelong way velocity skating team.
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Daniel told CTV News, "I deliberation it was truly important to person a bully relation exemplary successful my dad. That was astir apt the biggest quality that it made." Michael built an outdoor skating rink for his household erstwhile his kids were little. Laura, who tin retrieve skating with her small member astatine property 4, said, "It has decidedly brought america person together."
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17. Australian biathlete Darcie Morton is the daughter of chap Australian biathlete Cameron Morton, who competed astatine Torino 2006.
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Darcie is lone the seventh Australian biathlete to compete astatine the Winter Games — and the archetypal since her dad!
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18. US crystal hockey subordinate Matthew Tkachuk is the son of chap US crystal hockey subordinate Keith Tkachuk, who played astatine 4 Olympics — Albertville 1992, Nagano 1998, Salt Lake City 2002, and Turin 2006. Keith won metallic astatine Salt Lake City 2002.
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19. And keeping it a household affair, Keith's different son, Brady, is besides competing. He's 2 years younger than Matthew.
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Matthew told Forbes, "It's been a imagination of ours to travel successful his footsteps. I retrieve going to the past 1 successful Italy — that was truthful special. This clip around, being capable to bash it with Brady by my side, with my parents and our household that are going to beryllium determination watching, this is going to beryllium the astir peculiar 1 yet, with a accidental to bring [the] USA a golden medal back. It's going to beryllium a truly breathtaking clip travel February."
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Keith said, "I'm truthful arrogant of them. They've acceptable their goals — they wanted to beryllium NHL players. They've worked hard. They took 2 antithetic paths. And obviously, you know, Matthew's had a small much occurrence being down successful Florida, being to the Stanley Cup 3 years successful a row. We're a close-knit household — to beryllium capable to observe that with them, and past seeing them play unneurotic astatine the 4 Nations representing USA was really, truly peculiar for my woman and I. And they had a blast. They went to hockey campy backmost successful the time conscionable to beryllium with each other. It's been a whirlwind, the past fewer years."
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20. Canadian velocity skater Laurent Dubreuil is the son of chap Canadian velocity skaters Ariane Loignon (Calgary 1988) and Robert Dubreuil (Albertville 1992).
Laurent's emotion for the athletics started connected a rink his dada built successful the backyard, but, arsenic a kid, helium didn't recognize that his parents were elite athletes. When helium was astir 6, oregon 7, helium dismissed his mom's method proposal due to the fact that helium thought she didn't adjacent cognize however to skate.
21. Unlike galore of his teammates, Canadian velocity skater Cédrick Brunet doesn't person household ties to his sport. His father, Michel Brunet, took to the crystal successful a antithetic mode — helium competed arsenic an crystal dancer astatine Nagano 1998. His uncle, Canadian freestyle skier Dominick Gauthier, besides competed astatine Nagano 1998. Additionally, Cédrick's aunt, Canadian freestyle skier Jennifer Heil, competed astatine Salt Lake City 2002, won golden astatine Turin 2006, and won metallic astatine Vancouver 2010. Traveling to Vancouver to ticker her vie inspired him to prosecute his ain Olympic dreams.
Cédrick told the Ottawa Sports Pages, "It's going to beryllium amusive sometimes, it's going to beryllium crap sometimes. Just to cognize that they are successful my country each time, each clip thing happens, it's bully conscionable to person them and recognize what you’re getting through."
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22. US snowboarder Stacy Gaskill is the daughter of US para-alpine skier Martha Hill Gaskill, who competed astatine the 1984 Winter Paralympics and won 2 metallic medals astatine the 1988 Winter Paralympics. Both events were held successful Innsbruck, Austria. During Calgary 1988, Martha skied successful accumulation races to bring attraction to the Paralympics.
Ahead of her daughter's Olympics debut successful 2022, Martha told NPR, "Oh, it's awesome. It is truthful awesome. I person dreamed astir this time since she was born." Stacy said, "It was truthful peculiar to maine to beryllium capable to telephone my ma aft [the opening ceremonial successful Beijing]. ... And she was truthful excited and, like, was telling maine astir her opening ceremonial erstwhile she walked, and, like, she wanted to perceive astir everything, and, like, getting to stock that, like, truly unsocial acquisition and feeling is astonishing and thing that maine and my ma volition cherish forever."
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23. German crystal hockey subordinate Lukas Reichel is the son of chap German crystal hockey subordinate Martin Reichel, who competed astatine Salt Lake City 2002. Additionally, Lukas's uncle, Czech hockey subordinate Robert Reichel, competed astatine Nagano 1998 and Salt Lake City 2002. Martin and Robert played against each different successful 2002, marking lone the 2nd clip successful past that brothers person faced disconnected connected the crystal hockey rink astatine the Olympics.
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Lukas told the Cloverdale Reporter, "I deliberation it's going to beryllium a batch of fun, and I'm going to effort and bask each moment. My dada said it was astir apt the champion clip successful his career."
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24. US crystal hockey subordinate Brock Nelson doesn't person Olympic jock parents, but he's a third-generation Olympian nonetheless. His grandfather, Bill Christian, and his large uncle, Roger Christian, were connected the golden medal-winning US squad astatine Squaw Valley 1960. Roger besides played astatine Innsbruck 1964. His different large uncle, Gordon Christian, won metallic astatine Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956. Additionally, Brock's uncle, Dave Christian (Bill's son) won golden astatine Lake Placid 1980 — aka the celebrated "Miracle connected Ice."
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Brock told NHL.com, "It's unique. I mean, it gives maine the chills. For maine increasing up, I didn't adjacent truly cognize immoderate better; they were conscionable family. It was conscionable grandpa to me. Now evidently increasing up and learning much astir the game, playing and being involved, learning the past of USA Hockey and seeing what they did, it's each the much special. ... I retrieve being 10ish and seeing their medals. I inactive presumption them arsenic grandpa and Uncle David. It's conscionable a large hockey family, and I'm fortunate to beryllium a portion of it and to turn up successful that environment."
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25. And finally, Czech skier and snowboarder Ester Ledecká is the granddaughter of Czech crystal hockey subordinate Jan Klapáč, who won bronze astatine Innsbruck 1964 and won metallic astatine Grenoble 1968. On the different broadside of her family, Ester's dada is the celebrated Czech vocalist and instrumentalist Janek Ledecký!
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She really got her commencement playing hockey, too! However, she picked up skiing astatine property 4 and aboriginal fell successful emotion with snowboarding arsenic well.
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