Mikaela Shiffrin, Yuzuru Hanyu, Ester Ledecka and more – 7 global stars set to light up Beijing

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games start on Friday and you can watch every moment on discovery+ and across Eurosport platforms. Four years after Pyeongchang the best winter athletes in the world have gathered in Asia once more for the chance to write their names into the history books. Ad/> For some this might be their first experience of that unique spectacle that is an Olympics, for others it is their swansong.

And for a select few it is a chance to be spoken about for decades to come. /> Beijing 2022‘The biggest single undertaking we do’ — Georgiou on Olympics28/01/2022 AT 14:20 With the games set to start in just a couple of days we have picked out seven of the biggest stars that you need to be setting your alarms for. These are the athletes who are the type to get you jumping off your sofa, the ones you just have to experience live.

Ready to go? Let’s get started. Mikaela Shiffrin – Alpine Skiing, United States We couldn’t start anywhere else, could we? In a games full of stars there is none bigger than Alpine Skiing behemoth Mikaela Shiffrin, the Queen of Snow. Shiffrin is a three-time overall World Cup champion, double Olympic gold medallist and six-time world champion.

Her 73 World Cup race wins are third only to Ingemar Stenmark (86) and Lindsey Vonn (82). Her 47 Slalom wins are the most by any skier in a single discipline, ever. She will turn 27 in March.

27!!! When all is said and done only a cataclysmic disaster will stop Shiffrin going down as the greatest skier to ever do it, and she will have put such a gap between herself and the rest of the pack that it will take a Herculean effort to ever overtake her. The challenge now (and in Cortina in four years time) is to put herself into Olympic history. Right