The Milan Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games officially began Friday, and HuffPost will be tracking it all.From medal moments to politically related controversies, we’ll keep you updated throughout the sporting showcase, which marks the 50th anniversary of the first Winter Paralympics.Competition began Wednesday with events in wheelchair curling and para alpine skiing.The opening ceremony at the Verona Olympic Arena, the historic Roman amphitheater, featured performances by The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, Italian house music trio Meduza and more.The Games will run until March 15 with the closing ceremony at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium, the venue that also hosted the opening ceremony of the 1956 Winter Olympics.Check out our latest updates here:Paralympian Says ChatGPT Helped Him Win SilverUkraine’s Maksym Murashkovskyi credited artificial intelligence for helping him win a silver medal at the Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics, calling ChatGPT a “revolutionary technology” after finishing runner‑up in Sunday’s biathlon event.Murashkovskyi, a 2023 world championships bronze medallist, was edged out by China’s Dang Hesong and narrowly missed the gold.“For the past six months, I have been training with ChatGPT,” Murashkovskyi, 25, told reporters. “It was not only tactics. It was half of my training plan, motivation, et cetera. So it was a huge volume of all of my training. I used it as a psychologist, coach and, sometimes, as a doctor.”He added that AI could eventually replace some of the work provided by human coaches. “Not completely for five to 10 years. But part of it, definitely,” he said. “I believe in it, it is a revolutionary technology.”Ukraine have won 10 medals at this year’s Paralympics so far.See All UpdatesClose