• The USA is the top-ranked team and boasts three reigning ISU World Champions: Ilia Malinin, Alysa Liu (pictured above), Madison Chock & Evan Bates. Liu, Chock & Bates and Pair Skaters Ellie Kam & Danny O’Shea will take the ice on Day One.

• Japan, the 2022 Olympic silver medalists, ranked second in the qualifying and has Olympic medalists Kaori Sakamoto, Yuma Kagiyama, as well as two-time ISU World Pairs Champions Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara. Sakamoto, and Miura and Kihara, compete in the Short Programs on Friday.
• The battle for the podium will be exciting with Italy, Canada and Georgia close to each other 
• Italy arrives with two-time ISU World Ice Dance medalists Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri, two-time ISU World bronze medalists Sara Conti & Niccolo Macii, ISU Grand Prix Finalist Daniel Grassl and current ISU European bronze medalist Lara Naki Gutmann.

Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri will compete in front of a home crowd in Milan © ISU

• Team Georgia features newly minted ISU European Champions Anastasiia Metelkina & Luka Berulava, and Nika Egadze, as well as 2023 ISU European Champion Anastasiia Gubanova
• Canada is led by four-time ISU World medalists Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier. However, 2024 ISU World Pairs Champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek & Maxime Deschamps are out of the Team Event due to an injury to Stellato-Dudek.
• Italy and Georgia have never won a medal in the Olympic team event, while Canada has a silver from 2014 and a gold from 2018.
• France, with new ISU European Champions Laurence Fournier Beaudry & Guillaume Cizeron, and 2024 ISU World bronze medalist Adam Siao Him Fa, has an outside chance for medals. Fournier Beaudry & Cizeron compete in the Rhythm Dance. 

Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron have high hopes for France © ISU

• The remaining teams are Great Britain, the Republic of Korea, China and Poland.
• Poland participates for the first time in the Olympic team event.

• Ten teams qualified based on the results of the ISU World Championships 2025 and during the ISU Grand Prix series 2025/26. 
• The top five teams after the Short Programs/Rhythm Dance will advance to the final round and battle it out for the medals.
• The skaters in the team event have to be chosen from the athletes who compete in the individual events.

• Teams that have more than one entry in the individual events can switch up to two skaters/couples between the two segments of the competition.
• There was a total of five additional athlete quota places available for teams that have qualified in three disciplines to complete their team, attributed in the order of ranking.
• Japan gets an Ice Dance team (two athletes), Poland can have an Ice Dance couple (two athletes) and Great Britain adds a man (one athlete).
• These additional athletes can only compete in the Team event.
• The Republic of Korea has an incomplete team as they do not have a Pair Skating couple.