What’s on today at the 2026 Winter Olympics? Opening Ceremony, Curling, Ice Hockey, Figure Skating (6 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 (6 February) at the Winter Olympics?
Friday 6th February is one of the quieter days at the Winter Olympics because it is the curtain-raiser for the games with the Opening Ceremony taking place at San Siro in Milan.
That means that there are no medals being handed out but there are some key events happening around the north of Italy with the preliminaries of the Curling mixed doubles as well as the women’s Ice Hockey continuing, in addition to qualification in the Figure Skating.
Curling: Mixed doubles prelims | 9.05am – 1.35pm (UK)
The men’s and women’s events in the Curling take place later on in the games but the bronze and gold medal matches in the mixed doubles will take place on Tuesday next week and so the preliminaries are well underway.
Great Britain have begun with two wins out of two and they will seek to keep up their perfect start against fellow 100%-ers Sweden before then facing Korea Republic.
Elsewhere, the other two sides with two wins from two, the United States and Canada, will also face off, while hosts Italy seek to get a second win on the board against Switzerland.
The USA also take on Czechia with Sweden facing off against Norway and Italy taking on Estonia later on in the day.
Ice Hockey: Women’s prelims | 11.10am – 1.40pm (UK)
Ice Hockey also gets underway on the day of the Opening Ceremony with the women’s tournament kicking into gear in Group B initially, as the lowest ranked side in the Olympics, France, take on Japan.
Later on in the day, the two least fancied teams from Group A do battle for a crucial victory as Czechia face Switzerland at the Milano Santagiulia IHO Arena.
Figure Skating: Ice dance, pairs, ladies’ singles qualification | 8.55am – 12.35pm (UK)
American athlete Ilia Malinin is the big name in Figure Skating ahead of these games but she won’t yet be in action with the focus of qualification being on the ice dance, pairs and ladies’ singles in the morning and early afternoon UK time.
