Today’s Winter Olympics Predictions: Eileen Gu back in action (15 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 (15 February) at the Winter Olympics?
Team GB athlete Karen Muir is aiming for China’s star Eileen Gu in the women’s big air in the Freestyle Skiing, with five other medal events taking place across the whole of Monday.
Medal events
Alpine Skiing: Men’s slalom | 12:30pm (UK)
The Alpine Skiing continues with another medal event on Monday with the men’s slalom final with a 103-athlete field as Brazilian skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen searching for his second gold of the games.
Prediction: Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (BRA) to win
Bobsleigh: Women’s monobob | 8.06pm (UK)
The first medal event of this games’ Bobsleigh takes place on Monday evening in the women’s monobob, with 27-year-old German Laura Nolte the favourite to take first place on the podium.
Prediction: Laura Nolte (GER) to win
Figure Skating: Pairs | 7pm (UK)
Pair skating in the Figure Skating final takes place on Monday night and there is an extremely heavy favourite for this one with Japan’s duo of Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi expecting to win quite easily.
Prediction: JPN to win
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s big air | 7.17pm (UK)
Karen Muir is seeking to make up for last week and get herself an Olympic medal in the final of the Freestyle Skiing in the women’s big air, albeit the Brit is not the favourite.
Prediction: Eileen Gu (CHN) to win
Short Track: Women’s 1000m | 11.47am (UK)
Short Track skating continues with another medal event on Monday morning and it is a competitive field but two-time Olympic gold medallist Xandra Velzeboer is the favourite.
Prediction: Xandra Velzeboer (NED) to win
Ski Jumping: Men’s super team | 7.20pm (UK)
With Domen and Nika Prevc, the stars of the show in Ski Jumping, the Slovenians will be favourites for both the team events in this year’s games, with the men’s super team final taking place on Monday evening.
Prediction: SVN to win
Other events
Bobsleigh: Two-man heats | 9am - 10.57am (UK)
In the Bobsleigh, perhaps the most thrilling of winter sports, the heats of the two-man competition get underway before that aforementioned women’s monobob final.
Curling: Men’s and women’s preliminaries | 6.05pm (UK)
Curling continues in both the men’s and the women’s tournaments in the lengthy nine-match day sport with some standout games coming with Great Britain and Norway in the men’s and Sweden facing Switzerland in the women’s preliminaries.
Ice Hockey: Women’s semi-finals | 8.05am – 6.05pm (UK)
The Ice Hockey begins to reach its exciting denouement in Milano-Cortina with the women’s semi-finals taking place as Team USA face Sweden and Canada come up against Switzerland.
Short Track: Men’s 500m qualification and men’s 5000m relay semi-finals | 10.17am – 11.15am (UK)
On a day in which the women’s 1000m final takes place, there are a couple of other Short Track events as the men’s 500m heats happen before the semi-finals of the men’s relay.
