If you are a hardcore athletics aficionado or just nurturing a new love for hockey thanks to Hot RivalryTHE 2026 Winter Olympics there is what you are looking for.

The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will take place throughout Milan and Cortina, Italy, throughout the month of February. Some competitions start on February 4, but THE opening ceremony will be held on February 6 at 2:00 pm ET and will feature performances by Mariah Carey and Andrea Bocelli. After the events, there is a closing ceremony on February 22 at 2:30 pm ET.

As in Olympics previously, this year’s games will be broadcast in the US exclusively on NBC. You can watch if you have cable or satellite TV. Cable coverage will be on many NBC channels, including local NBC affiliates, CNBC, and the USA Network.

The Games will also be shown live on NBC’s streaming service Peacock Premium, which requires a subscription of $11 per month. If ads annoy you, the ad-free Peacock Premium Plus costs $18 a month. (Put a calendar reminder to cancel the service after the Olympics if you don’t plan to continue watching Traitors.)

The peacock will also return his The center of the Olympics website, which may be the easiest way to find the events you are looking for. You can search and bookmark games or events in advance and get notifications when they go live. This can be very useful depending on which time zone you are in, as the games are all taking place in northern Italy, which is in the GMT+1 time zone.

For a full overview of all events, see the official Olympics competition schedule. If you want to see each competition listed in order of event time, we got you.

Looking for events by sport? Below is a list of major events for all of them, along with links to full schedules for each event.

Note: Unless otherwise specified, all times below are listed in US Eastern time.

Opening Ceremony

The three-hour opening ceremony will be televised by almost every Olympic media outlet on Friday, February 6. Live coverage begins at 2 pm Eastern and 11 am Pacific.

Alpine Skiing

Full schedule

Training for alpine skiing will begin on February 4, but competition will begin in men’s downhill on February 7 at 5:30 am. The first medal event for women’s downhill is February 8.

Medal events will take place almost every day until February 18. The final medal games will begin with the first men’s slalom run on February 16.

The final women’s slalom starts on February 18.

Biathlon

Full schedule

The biathlon events are the closest thing the Olympic sports can get to a James Bond movie. Skiers zip down mountain trails and then stop to shoot a gun. What’s not to love?

You can watch all the excitement starting with a mixed relay 4 x 6 km on February 8.

All events are medal events and will continue until the men’s 1-km mass starts on February 20 and the women’s 12.5-km mass starts on February 21.

Bobsleigh

Full schedule

Bobsleigh—no, not bobsled, you philistine—events begin on February 12. One of the three sliding sports, bobsleigh is a team of two to four people sitting upright on a sled with their heads poking out. (As opposed to luge and skeleton, where athletes lie on their sleds without sides or backs.)

Training activities will begin on February 12 at 6:50 am. There will be four bobsleigh medal events, starting with heat four of the women’s monobob on February 16.