Today's Winter Olympics Predictions: Team GB searching for a first gold – and maybe more (13 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 (13 February) at the Winter Olympics?
It could well be a big day for Great Britain with Matt Weston and Charlotte Bankes both going for gold medals, while Team GB seek to get back on track in the Curling on the second Friday of these Winter Olympics.
Medal events
Biathlon: Men’s sprint | 1pm (UK)
The French won the mixed relay Biathlon at the weekend and the star of that team, Eric Perrot, will be hoping and expecting individual gold in the men’s sprint.
Prediction: Eric Perrot (FRA) to win
Cross-Country Skiing: Men’s 10km interval start | 10.45am (UK)
Cross-Country Skiing continues with yet another medal event on Friday morning in the massive field of the men’s 10km interval start in Milano-Cortina.
Prediction: NOR to win two or more medals
Figure Skating: Men’s singles | 6pm (UK)
Two stars of Figure Skating, Max Naumov and Ilia Malinin, do battle in the men’s singles with the expectation being that the United States take both gold and silver.
Prediction: USA to win two or more medals
Skeleton: Men’s final run 3 and run 4 | 8.05pm (UK)
The men’s first couple of runs took place on Thursday and now runs three and four will decide the medals on Friday in a competitive Skeleton run – and it is Team GB’s best chance of gold with Matt Weston the heavy favourite before the games, as well as Marcus Wyatt in the hunt.
Prediction: GBR to win two or more medals
Snowboarding: Women’s cross | 9am – 1.46pm (UK)
The women’s cross in Snowboarding will be taking place and decided throughout the day with qualification beginning in the morning ahead of the round of 16, the quarter-finals, semi-finals and then the final early on in the afternoon.
Prediction: Charlotte Bankes (GBR) to get on the podium
Snowboarding: Men's halfpipe | 6.30pm - 7.28pm (UK)
As well as the women's cross, the men's halfpipe is also set to be decided with Yuto Tostuka perhaps the biggest threat to Scotty James, of Australia.
Prediction: Scotty James (AUS) to win
Speed Skating: Men’s 10000m | 3pm (UK)
The men’s 10000m Speed Skating is one of the longer forms of racing in the Winter Olympics and the hosts will be confident of picking up another gold medal.
Prediction: Davide Ghiotto (ITA) to win
Other events
Curling: Men’s & women’s preliminaries | 8.05am – 6.05pm (UK)
The men’s Curling event began on Thursday and that continues, while the women’s event also gets underway with Great Britain seeking to get back on track.
Ice Hockey: Men’s preliminaries & women’s quarter-finals | 11.10am – 8.10pm (UK)
Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid are back in action for the Canadians as they take on Switzerland in the preliminaries, while the women’s tournament gets back underway with four quarter-finals through the afternoon and evening.
Skeleton: Women’s final run 1 and run 2 | 3pm – 4.48pm (UK)
Like the format for the men’s final, split over two days with two runs on one and then two the following, the women’s final begins on Friday ahead of the medals being decided on Saturday.
