How to Watch the 2026 Winter Olympics

Whether you’re a hardcore athletics aficionado oregon conscionable nurturing a newfound emotion of hockey acknowledgment to Heated Rivalry, the 2026 Winter Olympics person what you’re looking for.

The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics volition instrumentality spot crossed Milan and Cortina, Italy, passim the period of February. A fewer competitions commencement connected February 4, but the opening ceremonial volition beryllium held connected February 6 astatine 2:00 p.m. ET and volition diagnostic performances by Mariah Carey and Andrea Bocelli. Following the events, there volition beryllium a closing ceremonial connected February 22 astatine 2:30 p.m. ET.

As successful Olympics past, this year’s games volition beryllium televised successful the US exclusively by NBC. You tin ticker if you person cablegram oregon outer TV. Cable sum volition beryllium crossed respective NBC channels, including NBC section affiliates, CNBC, and the USA Network.

The Games volition besides beryllium shown unrecorded connected NBC’s streaming work Peacock Premium, which requires a subscription of $11 per month. If ads thrust you bonkers, the ad-free Peacock Premium Plus costs $18 a month. (Set a calendar reminder to cancel the work aft the Olympics if you’re not readying to support watching Traitors.)

Peacock volition besides bring backmost its Olympics hub website, which whitethorn beryllium the easiest mode to find the events you’re looking for. You tin hunt and bookmark sports oregon events up of clip and get notifications for erstwhile they spell live. This mightiness beryllium particularly utile depending connected what clip portion you’re in, arsenic the games are each taking spot successful bluish Italy, which is successful the GMT+1 clip zone.

For a afloat overview of each the events, cheque retired the authoritative Olympics contention schedule. If you’d similar to spot each and each contention listed successful bid by lawsuit time, we person you covered.

Looking for events by sport? Below is simply a database of the large events for them all, on with links to the afloat schedules of each event.

Note: Unless specified otherwise, each times beneath are listed successful US Eastern time.

Opening Ceremony

The three-hour-long opening ceremonial volition aerial connected astir each Olympic media outlet on Friday, February 6. Live sum starts astatine 2 p.m. Eastern and 11 americium Pacific.

Alpine Skiing

Full schedule

Training for alpine skiing starts connected February 4, but the competitory events footwear disconnected with men’s downhill connected February 7 astatine 5:30 am. The archetypal medal lawsuit for women’s downhill is February 8.

Medal events hap astir each time done February 18. Final medal games commencement with the archetypal men’s slalom tally connected February 16.

Women’s last slalom runs commencement February 18.

Biathlon

Full schedule

Biathlon events are the closest happening the Olympic games get to a James Bond movie. Skiers zip crossed upland trails and past halt to sprout a gun. What’s not to love?

You tin ticker each the excitement starting with a mixed relay 4 x 6 km connected February 8.

All events are medal events and spell until the men’s 1- km wide commencement connected February 20 and women’s 12.5-km wide commencement connected February 21.

Bobsleigh

Full schedule

Bobsleigh—no, not bobsled, you philistine—events commencement February 12. One of the 3 sliding sports, bobsleigh is simply a squad of 2 to 4 radical sitting upright successful a sled with their heads poking out. (As opposed to luge and skeleton, successful which athletes laic connected their sleds without sides oregon backing.)

Training events commencement connected February 12 astatine 6:50 am. There are 4 bobsleigh medal events, starting with vigor 4 of the women’s monobob connected February 16.