I've taken a trip this afternoon to one of the hubs of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Cultural Olympiad, an arts programme whic

TNT Sports and streaming service discovery+ will broadcast every moment of the Winter Olympics, and will provide coverage of and build-up to the Opening Ceremony from 5.30pm GMT. Viewers in the UK can also watch the Opening Ceremony live on the BBC. Coverage begins on BBC Two at 6:30pm GMT and will run until 10pm.

The first medal event of the Games takes place bright and early when the Men's Downhill in Alpine Skiing goes off at 5:30 a.m. ET. Four Americans are set to compete for a medal in the event. Plus, the first speed skating medal will be handed out on Saturday when the women's 3000m event takes place.

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Skating into Olympic medal contention despite a hearing impairment, Las Vegas-born ice dancer Diana Davis is helping make the country of Georgia a surprise contender. The team event is figure skating's ultimate test of depth.

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The play-by-play voice for ski jumping at the 2026 Winter Olympics is Paul Burmeister. This will be his third time calling ski jumping at the Winter Olympics following his work in PyeongChang in 2018 and Beijing in 2022. Three-time Olympic medalist Johnny Spillane joins Burmeister as an analyst, along with NBC Sports reporter Nicole Auerbach.

Swiss world champion Franjo von Allmen has taken home the first gold medal of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, beating out Italian favorite and Bormio specialist Dominik Paris in the men’s downhill by fifty-hundredths of a second.