Dave Powers, known to his friends as Guru Dave or just plain Goo, has been around long enough to know that things come and go, dry seasons follow wet ones, and with snowmaking and grooming getting better every year, there’s no need to think ski hills are about to become an endangered species.

The first gold medal of the 2026 Olympics belongs to Switzerland's Franjo von Allmen, who won the men's downhill skiing event on Saturday.

The Women's Downhill Alpine Skiing Final is airing at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026 at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre.

The Alpine skiing competition begins Saturday. Here's everything you need to know about the men's and women's programs.

The women's Alpine skiing downhill event at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics will air on NBC and USA Network, and stream live on Peacock and NBC Olympics platforms on Sunday, Feb. 8.

There’s also figure skating’s team event, the women’s Skiathlon with American Jessie Diggins, and the first luge runs on the icy sliding track. » READ MORE: After striking gold in Paris in 2024, can NBC do it again at the Winter Olympics in Milan?

NBC's drone cameras amaze Olympic fans during skiing, snowboarding, luge and more; sound annoys some originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. During the earliest events of the 2026 Winter Olympics, viewers of the NBC family of channels may notice small drones whirring around.

Alpine skiing great Marco Odermatt, left empty‑handed in the Olympic downhill, has another chance to chase gold after he was paired with reigning slalom world champion Loïc Meillard for Monday's team combined race,