Today’s Winter Olympics Predictions: Bobsleigh and Speed Skating to take centre stage (17 February)
General overview
When are the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics taking place? The Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics is taking take place between 6th February, 2026 and 22nd February 2026, although some preliminary events in sports such as Curling and Ice Hockey have already got underway.
Where are the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics taking place? The Opening Ceremony for the games will be held at San Siro in Milan with the Closing Ceremony being held at the Verona Arena in Verona. There are events taking place across Lombardy and the north west of Italy with Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Alps hosting a lot of skiing events.
How to watch the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics: In the UK, the BBC and TNT Sports are the main broadcasters. In USA, NBCUniversal and Versant are the main broadcasters for the games.
What’s on today (17 February) at the Winter Olympics?
There are seven more medal events on Tuesday at the Winter Olympics in Italy, with the standouts perhaps coming in the two-man Bobsleigh as well as both the men’s and women’s team pursuit in the Speed Skating.
Medal events
Biathlon: Men’s relay | 1.30pm (UK)
It has been competitive in the Biathlon events throughout these games with both Norway and France putting together some impressive sides and both countries will expect to medal in the men’s relay event.
Prediction: NOR & FRA to medal
Bobsleigh: Two-man | 8.05pm (UK)
The second medal event in the Bobsleigh takes place on Tuesday evening with the two-man Bobsleigh and the expectation is that heavy favourite Johannes Lochner goes one better after finishing as runner up in 2022.
Prediction: Johannes Lochner (GER) to win
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s big air | 7.17pm (UK)
After some real drama in the women’s event on Monday night, the men’s big air in the Freestyle Skiing takes place on Tuesday with a battle likely between Birk Ruud and Mac Forehand for gold, albeit Kiwi skier Luca Harrington will be aiming to add another medal after taking bronze in the slopestyle.
Prediction: Birk Ruud (NOR) to win
Nordic Combined: Individual large hill | 12.45pm (UK)
In the Nordic Combined individual large hill event, the big name of Jens Luras Oftebro will be expected to compete once more but Austrian individual normal hill semi-finalist Johannes Lampaerter is the favourite.
Prediction: Johannes Lampaerter (AUT) to win
Snowboarding: Women’s slopestyle | 12.54pm (UK)
There is a heavy favourite in the women’s Snowboarding slopestyle event on Tuesday with Zoi Sadowski-Synnott expected to come out on top ahead of the Japanese duo of Kokomo Murase and Reira Iwabuchi.
Prediction: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (JPN) to win
Speed Skating: Men’s team pursuit| 3.41pm (UK)
The men’s and women’s team pursuit are set to be fascinating events on Tuesday afternoon and the men’s tournament sees the Netherlands face Italy and China take on a star studded Team USA, as well as Japan against Germany and Norway vs. France in the quarter-finals.
Prediction: USA to win
Speed Skating: Women’s team pursuit | 3.47pm (UK)
In the women’s tournament, the impressive Dutch are once again favourites as they take on Japan, while the US face Canada in the first stage with Kazakhstan up against China and Belgium taking on Germany.
Prediction: NED to win
Other events
Curling: Men’s and women’s preliminaries | 8.05am - 6.05pm (UK)
The extremely lengthy preliminary stages in the men’s and the women’s Curling continues on Tuesday with a big clash in the men’s tournament taking place between Canada and Great Britain.
Figure Skating: Women’s single qualification | 5.45pm (UK)
Figure Skating has had some major surprises in these games and now the qualification for the much anticipated women’s singles event takes place on Tuesday evening.
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s and women’s aerials qualification | 9.45am – 1.15pm (UK)
The entertaining and dramatic, risky Freestyle Skiing continues on Tuesday morning and early afternoon with qualification for both the men’s aerials and the women’s aerials.
Ice Hockey: Men’s playoffs | 11.10am – 8.10pm (UK)
The men’s Ice Hockey continues on Tuesday with the playoffs for the knockout stages. Perhaps the standout tie comes just before lunchtime as Switzerland take on hosts Italy.
