Canadian Olympic gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec will have a chance to win two Olympic medals at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo. That is because the International Olympic Committee has approved eight new events for the next Olympic Winter Games. They are men’s and women’s dual moguls, mixed team skeleton, women’s doubles luge, women’s large hill ski jumping, men’s sprint ski mountaineering, women’s sprint ski mountaineering, and mixed relay ski mountaineering according to Chros McDougall of Team USA on Friday.
Of the eight new events, Canada’s best chance for an Olympic medal is in men’s dual moguls. That is because Kingsbury, who won a gold medal in men’s moguls at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. is the reigning dual moguls World Cup champion. In the 2021-22 World Cup season, Kingsbury had 400 points, a total of 100 more points than Ikuma Horishima of Japan, who was second with 300 points. In dual moguls, you go head-to-head against a competitor down the mountain.
Kingsbury has won 24 World Cup dual moguls competitions. He has also won 10 World Cup dual moguls silver medals and two World Cup dual moguls bronze medals for 36 dual moguls medals overall. Kingsbury has also won three gold medals and two silver medals for five medals overall in men’s dual moguls at the International Ski Federation World Championships.
Prior to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, I interviewed Canadian Olympic gold medalist Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Montreal, Quebec, who won the gold medal at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in women’s moguls. I asked her about the possibility of dual moguls being at a future Olympic Winter Games. Here was her response.
