VIDEO SHOWS: SOUNDBITES FROM MACUGA FAMILY / STILL PHOTOS AND VIDEO OF MACUGA SISTERS DURING PHOTO SHOOTS / HANDOUT VIDEO FROM FAMILY OF SISTERS TRAINING AND COMPETING / HANDOUT VIDEO FROM U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD OF SISTERS COMPETING SHOWS: UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATION (FILE) (MACUGA FAMILY HANDOUT – Access all) 1. MACUGA SISTERS SKIING, AS DAD NARRATES NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT – OCTOBER 28, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 2. STILL PHOTO OF SAM MACUGA (MUTE) 3. STILL PHOTO OF ALLI MACUGA (MUTE) 4. STILL PHOTO OF LAUREN MACUGA (MUTE) 5. LAUREN MACUGA DURING PHOTOSHOOT 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LAUREN MACUGA, TEAM USA OLYMPIC ALPINE SKIER, SAYING: "I mean it's been chaotic, but in the best way. It's so cool. All of us have just been going out. Like before we made the U.S. ski team, you're like, 'Oh we're just going to go out and have fun, go skiing.' Like that's all we wanted to do. This is so fun. Then one after another, we kept making the team. Like oh, we could really go somewhere. That's wild. Then all of a sudden, here we are. Like we could go to the Olympics together. Like, oh my gosh. It's the coolest thing." UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATION (FILE) (MACUGA FAMILY HANDOUT – Access all) 7. MACUGA SISTERS SKIING, AS DAD NARRATES NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT – OCTOBER 28, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LAUREN MACUGA, TEAM USA OLYMPIC ALPINE SKIER, SAYING: "No. I mean, we luck out that we are in different disciplines. We were so competitive. Like it was just fortunate that our mom and dad could support us through being in three different events. And it's, I mean, we got our little advantage, where we can ask each other questions and get, like, a freestyle or a Nordic opinion on being on the world class stage. You're like, alright, that's, that's pretty helpful. And no one on my team, like, yes, I love asking my team questions, but it's just a different thing. Like if we need something new, that's, we have easy access to it." ST. ANTON, AUSTRIA (FILE – JANUARY 12, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 9. STILL PHOTO OF LAUREN MACUGA COMPETING IN WOMEN'S SUPER G RACE AT FIS ALPINE SKI WORLD CUP (MUTE) 10. STILL PHOTO OF LAUREN MACUGA CELEBRATING AFTER WOMEN'S SUPER G RACE AT FIS ALPINE SKI WORLD CUP (MUTE) NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT – OCTOBER 28, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 11. ALLI MACUGA DURING PHOTOSHOOT 12. STILL PHOTO OF ALLI MACUGA (MUTE) 13. ALLI MACUGA DURING PHOTOSHOOT 14. STILL PHOTO OF ALLI MACUGA (MUTE) 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ALLI MACUGA, TEAM USA OLYMPIC MOGULS SKIER, SAYING: "It just works. Sam is light and she's, like, perfect for ski jumping. Lauren is very tall and very jacked, which is just what you need for downhill. And, like, I have a pretty strong legs and I'm like perfect height for mogul skiing. Like it just works so well. And personality-wise, I don't know if we just pick it up from our teammates, but I feel like, no, we haven't changed our personalities too much from being younger. Like it just fits. I'm a freestylist. Like I kind of got that fun little vibe. And Sam, a ski jumper, like, it's insane. And, like, she's a leader. Like I feel, like, a lot of leaders go toward ski jumping. She knows what she's doing. She's super smart, which I think it just fits that sport so well. And then Lauren, like, she's super fun, energetic, wants to go really fast, which obviously she's going really fast, so that also fits well. But yeah, it's really crazy how well it all fits." WATERVILLE VALLEY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, UNITED STATES (FILE – JANUARY 26, 2024) (U.S. SKI & SNOWBOARD HANDOUT – Part must on-screen credit U.S. Ski & Snowboard) 16. ALLI MACUGA COMPETING AT UNITED AIRLINES WATERVILLE FREESTYLE CUP NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT – OCTOBER 28, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AMY AND DAN MACUGA, PARENTS OF MACUGA SISTERS, SAYING: DAN: "Oh it was young." AMY: "Yeah, it was young. Yeah." DAN: "I mean, they used to be, like, sledding in the backyard, fighting over who went the furthest. And you're like, 'Yeah, we're sledding here, guys. It's okay.' So there was… Yeah, it goes way back." UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATION (FILE) (MACUGA FAMILY HANDOUT – Access all) 18. SAM MACUGA TRAINING FOR SKI JUMPING NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT – OCTOBER 28, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 19. SAM MACUGA DURING PHOTOSHOOT 20. STILL PHOTO OF SAM MACUGA DURING PHOTOSHOOT (MUTE) 21. SAM MACUGA DURING PHOTOSHOOT 22. STILL PHOTO OF SAM MACUGA DURING PHOTOSHOOT (MUTE) 23. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SAM MACUGA, TEAM USA OLYMPIC SKI JUMPER, SAYING: "It's been awesome. I think it… I couldn't imagine doing this journey without them. And I think it's almost, like, an advantage over everyone else. Like, I get to have my siblings there with me for the ride and we're not even competing against each other. We're just wholeheartedly supporting each other." UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATION (FILE) (MACUGA FAMILY HANDOUT – Access all) 24. SAM MACUGA TRAINING FOR SKI JUMPING NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT – OCTOBER 28, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 25. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AMY AND DAN MACUGA, PARENTS OF MACUGA SISTERS, SAYING: "It's really perfect. I mean, it did make for a lot of logistics to sort out and we really don't usually know what they're like, if you were to ask us particulars about their sport, we probably could not answer them." EAGLE COUNTY, COLORADO, UNITED STATES (FILE – DECEMBER 14, 2024) (U.S. SKI & SNOWBOARD HANDOUT – Part must on-screen credit U.S. Ski & Snowboard) 26. LAUREN MACUGA COMPETING AT BEAVER CREEK STIFEL BIRDS OF PREY AUDI FIS SKI WORLD CUP NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT – OCTOBER 28, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 26. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ALLI MACUGA, TEAM USA OLYMPIC MOGULS SKIER, SAYING: "It's hard to put into words, like, it's insane to think about, like, all three of us could be there when, like, when we were younger, we'd talk about the Olympics. We're like, 'Oh, it's so cool,' like watching it. But it was never like, 'Oh, I'm going to go to the Olympics.' Like maybe jokingly, we're like, 'Yeah, like, I'd love to go, but no way that would happen.' And then all of a sudden we're like, wait, like it… It's kind of realistic now for all of us. Like, that's crazy. So I think it'd just be a dream come true, obviously. And it just be really fun to have all of us there." EAGLE COUNTY, COLORADO, UNITED STATES (FILE – DECEMBER 14, 2024) (U.S. SKI & SNOWBOARD HANDOUT – Part must on-screen credit U.S. Ski & Snowboard) 27. LAUREN MACUGA COMPETING AT BEAVER CREEK STIFEL BIRDS OF PREY AUDI FIS SKI WORLD CUP STORY: With their competitive instincts honed by a fearsome sibling rivalry, the Macuga sisters, a trio of rising American stars, are vying to compete in three separate disciplines at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in February. The eldest, 24-year-old Sam, has embraced the high-adrenaline demands of ski jumping, Lauren, 23, competes in alpine skiing and 22-year-old Alli was named 2023 FIS Rookie of the Year in moguls. "We luck out that we are in different disciplines. We are so competitive," said Lauren, who became the youngest world championships medallist in a speed event in 12 years with super-G bronze in February. Monopoly was previously banned from the household, while a game of spoons during the holidays once became so heated that one of the Macugas' cousins was flung into a Christmas tree. "They used to be sledding in the backyard fighting over who went the furthest," their father Dan Macuga recalled. "And you're like, 'We're sledding here, guys'." The family infighting ends at the slopes, however, where all three are each other's biggest supporters, along with younger brother Dan, 20, who is also eyeing a future in alpine skiing. "I couldn't imagine doing this journey without them and I think it's almost like an advantage over everyone else," said Sam, who first made the U.S. ski t…
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