Updated on: February 5, 2026 / 9:36 AM EST / CBS News
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee is sending its biggest Winter Olympics team ever to the 2026 Games in Italy — 232 Olympic athletes representing 32 home states. The CBS News data team mapped athletes’ home states to identify which states had the most representation.
Colorado leads with 30 athletes, followed by Minnesota with 24 and California with 19. States with the fewest competitors include Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, North Dakota and Washington, D.C., each with one athlete; 18 states have no athletes on the team.
Three team members listed hometowns in other countries — New Zealand, Canada and Ukraine — and three alternate athletes are not included in the official count.
The team includes 98 returning Olympians who have won a combined 22 gold medals, according to the committee. Thirty-two athletes previously competed at the Youth Olympic Games, with 20 of them making their Olympic debut this week.
This roster surpasses the 228 American athletes who competed at PyeongChang in the 2018 Winter Games.
Find your hometown Olympians
A map shows the U.S. communities where Team USA’s athletes hail from. Park City, Utah, stands out with the most at 11, followed by Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Lake Placid, New York; and Anchorage, Alaska. Use the search option in the table below the map to see if any of this year’s Olympians share your hometown.
Rachel Gold contributed to this report.