The closing ceremony of Milano Cortina 2026 has barely finished, but already some of Team GB’s greatest winter athletes are preparing to finish off their season.
While Matt Weston has earned a deserved rest after his two Olympic gold medals – the skeleton World Cup wrapped up before the Games – others have crystal globes and world titles in their sights.
Chief among them is another of the golden quartet from Milano Cortina, Charlotte Bankes, while halfpipe bronze medallist Zoe Atkin is targeting World Cup glory as well.
So if the last few weeks have left you in need of more winter action on snow or ice, let us take you through what is coming up:
Alpine skiing
The FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is already back underway with Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt making up for his Olympic disappointment with a downhill victory in Garmish-Partenkirchen.
For the Team GB trio of Dave Ryding, Billy Major and Laurie Taylor, the next slalom event is on March 8 in Kranjska Gora in Slovenia.
Ryding, who is retiring at the end of this season, has not yet decided whether he will race the final events of the World Cup circuit but did admit he was unlikely to make it to this one.
Major, after a top 20 finish at the Olympics, will want to build on that performance.
Biathlon
The IBU Biathlon World Cup is heading to Finland this week, with Kontiolahti set to host four days of action.
Shawna Pendry and Jacques Jefferies both made their Olympic bows last month and will now be hoping to build on those performances in the individual events in Kontiolahti, with further stops in Otepaa and Oslo to come.
The action begins on Thursday with the women’s individual.
Cross-country skiing
Fittingly, there is no rest for the cross-country skiers, some of the hardest-working athletes at the Games.
They have already been back competing in Falun, Sweden, with none other than Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo taking two wins after his six gold medals at the Games.
Andrew Musgrave, James Clugnet and Joe Davies have also been back in the mix, with their next event a trip to Finland for a sprint and 10km classic in Lahti.
Musgrave currently sits 21st overall in the World Cup standings, which are dominated by Klaebo.
Curling
After the drama on the ice in Cortina, the curling action does not stop, with the Scottish Championships have taken place the weekend just gone.
Coming up in March are the Women’s World Championships in Calgary, from March 14 to 22, while the men’s even will be held in Utah from March 27 to April 4.
The exact make-up of those teams has not yet been confirmed, with Team Mouat unlikely to be heading Stateside.
There will also be the mixed doubles World Championships to watch out for in Geneva at the end of April, bringing down the curtain on the winter season.
Figure skating
The figure skating in Milan had us transfixed and the world’s best skaters will be back in action very soon.
The World Figure Skating Championships are headed to Czechia, with Prague playing host for the event between March 24 and 29.
A year ago in Boston, Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson made history in the ice dance when they claimed a bronze medal, the first British podium at the World since Torvill and Dean back in 1984.
Freestyle skiing
Zoe Atkin won a brilliant bronze on the final Saturday of the Games and now has her sights set on a crystal globe.
She currently sits in second place in the World Cup standings for the freestyle skiing halfpipe with one more event to come in Arosa on March 29.
Meanwhile, Kirsty Muir will be back in action in Tignes on March 19 and 20, competing in the slopestyle and Big Air, she currently sits in second place in the latter.
Ice hockey
Team GB did not feature in the ice hockey in Milano Cortina, but the GB men’s team will be appearing at the World Championships in Zurich from May 15 to 31.
The women’s team currently find themselves in Division 1, and will be seeking promotion in Puigcerda, Spain, between April 12 and 18.
Short track
Fresh from his Olympic final, Niall Treacy has another big target in his sights with the short track World Championships being held in Montreal from March 13 to 15.
Treacy has strong ties to Canada, it is where his fiancée Renata Wong hails from, with the pair set to tie the knot later this summer.
Snowboarding
Charlotte Bankes claimed Olympic gold in the snowboard cross alongside Huw Nightingale, and is now targeting the crystal globe in the individual event.
She is the current World Cup leader, and will be back in action on March 7 in Türkiye, with a four-point lead to protect over the next five rounds.
Meanwhile, Mia Brookes came away from the Games having narrowly missed out on a medal in the Big Air, having won the sole World Cup event she had entered in the discipline.
There are two more slopestyle events on the World Cup circuit, a discipline in which Brookes was crowned world champion in 2023 when still only 16. The next one is in Flachau on March 21, before the World Cup heads to Silvaplana the following week.
Speed skating
Ellia Smeding made history with the best-ever result for a female speed skater for Team GB, and after that 11th place in the women’s 1000m, she is back in action almost immediately.
Smeding will head to the Netherlands for the speed skating World Championships, which are taking place in Heerenveen from March 5 to 8.
That should have you covered for the next few weeks, so make sure to tune in!