Competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics begins on Wednesday. The opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Games takes place on Friday, but before the Olympic torch is lit, competition in curling and hockey gets underway. The next two weeks will be filled with incredible Olympic moments from the ice to the snow to the slopes.

The opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Games in Milan, Italy, is on Feb. 6, and we're so ready. While sports like curling may barely register on our radar most of the time, there's something about the Olympic broadcast that suddenly makes us care deeply about that slow-moving stone gliding across the ice.

World champion Franjo von Allmen dominated the last men’s World Cup downhill before the Olympics and gave troubled ski resort Crans-Montana a second Swiss victory of the weekend.

A record-breaking Winter Olympics could be on the horizon for Team GB - but who could win the medals in Milan-Cortina?

STAMFORD, Conn. – January 6, 2026 – Mike Tirico leads a roster of 84 commentators for NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, scheduled for Feb. 6-22 across NBC, Peacock, NBCSN, NBCUniversal’s digital platforms, and Versant’s CNBC and USA Network.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Milan to protest the deployment of US ICE agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics, unbothered by the fact that agents would be stationed in a control room and not operating on the streets.

We are days away from the start of the 2026 Winter Olympics – here's what you need to know in six charts.

In hockey, offsides happens when a player goes across the blue line into the offensive zone (also called the attacking zone) before the puck does, according to USA Hockey. (The blue line is what divides their offensive zone from the neutral zone.) A power play in hockey is when one team commits a penalty and has to play without one player.

Whether she is walking a fashion runway, amping herself up at the top of a mountain or digging into one of those physics lessons she takes “for fun,” Olympic champion Eileen Gu can probably boil down her main goals to these: Do her best.

Four years after retiring, Shaun White is still changing the sport he's dedicated his life to.