At the 2026 Winter Olympics, John Steel Hagenbuch drew the entire course from memory the night before his race. Then, a minute in, he went the wrong way. He finished 14th and walked into the mixed zone in mild amusement. This is what he's been thinking about since.

Meet the 20-year-old Paralympic Nordic skier who believes time is our most valuable currency. Michael Kneeland found out he made the team fourteen days before the Games. His family couldn't come. Now he's plotting his return and is not wasting a second.

Kaysha Love was warned that sanding was the worst part of bobsled. She responded by throwing on a JBL speaker, buying candy, and hosting sanding parties. That same instinct to find the purpose inside the hard thing and bring everyone with you is what led her to attempt one of the boldest transitions in U.S. bobsled history. She decided to become a pilot when everyone said the timeline was impossible.

Jadin O'Brien learned how to bobsled two weeks before she made the World Cup team. Two weeks to go from heptathlete to brakeman. Two weeks before she found herself hurtling down ice alongside one of the greatest bobsledders in American history.

Erin Martin is a pediatric nurse at Seattle Children's Hospital. Then she goes home, trains for the Paralympics, and does it all over again. What sounds like an impossible balance turns out to be her biggest competitive advantage.