Figure Skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics Has Begun. How to Watch Every Spin, Jump and Fall

Anna Odine Stroem of Norway won the Olympic gold medal on the normal hill in women's ski jumping Saturday ahead of Slovenian favorite Nika Prevc.

The Italian is an alpine ski legend in her own right and had the honor of lighting the Olympic cauldron in Cortina during Friday's Opening Ceremony. At the Beijing Olympics four years ago, she won silver in the downhill, a mere 23 days after partially tearing the ACL in her left knee in a crash in Cortina.

Thousands of the world’s best athletes will flock to Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy in February 2026 for the 25th Winter Olympics. While sports fans are focused on the athletic feats of the Olympians,

Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events.

The Milan Cortina Games go viral with intrigue over illicit ski jumping suits and below-the-belt injections—but no Olympians have been caught with anything so far.

Snowboard big air debuted on the Olympic program at the Sochi 2014 Games. Unlike snowboard slopestyle, in which athletes do a full run's worth of tricks on a course that has a jib (rails) section at the top and three large jumps at the bottom,