When it comes to mental health, the math is sobering as the 2026 Winter Olympics approach.
About half of the U.S. Olympians and U.S. Paralympians set to compete at the Milano Cortina Games will not be at their best mentally, according to Jonathan Finnoff, chief medical officer of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC).
"Going into the Games, we know that 50 percent of Olympic athletes and 60 percent of Paralympic athletes are going to report some symptoms of mental health concern," Finnoff said in October at the Team USA Media Summit in New York.
So is the USOPC prepared to support those athletes? (The U.S. Olympic team is comprised of 232 athletes and the final U.S. Paralympic team will be announced March 2.)