The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina are set to begin on Feb. 6, and will run until Feb. 22. The Winter Paralympic Games will then begin on March 6 and will run until March 15. Italy will be hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics for the third time, with Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo as the official hosts of the event.

Over years of legal battles, fallout from those drug cases meant Russians had to compete in Pyeongchang in 2018 as “Olympic Athletes from Russia” and in Beijing in 2022 as the Russian Olympic Committee, both times without the national anthem.

On a messy night of men’s skating at the U.S. championships, Malinin won by more than 50 points. Now, he'll dazzle on Olympic ice.

"Quad God" star Ilia Malinin stops by the first episode of USA TODAY's "Milan Magic" Olympic podcast. You can watch it here:

Kylie Kelce will be a part of NBCUniversal's Creator Collective at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina next month

Two-time Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Chloe Kim dislocated her shoulder after falling in practice less than a month before the start of the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina, the Team USA star revealed in a video posted Thursday to her Instagram.

One of the showcase events at the Winter Olympics will be hockey, where NHL players are back for the first time since 2014 and the world’s best women’s players are competing in the Games for an eighth consecutive time.

The final day of qualifying at the 2026 Aspen Grand Prix meant that the competition was stiff for the American men in the freeski halfpipe trials.

Kylie will appear as part of NBCUniversal’s “Milan Cortina Creator Collective,” which is a multi-platform social creator program with creators across YouTube, Meta, and TikTok to tell stories of the games with on-the-ground access in Milan and Cortina.

As Scottish cross-country skier Andrew Musgrave prepares for a fifth Winter Olympics, he regrets not having performed to his potential at previous Games and aims to put that right in Italy next month.

United States women have not won an Olympic medal in figure skating's singles event since Sasha Cohen's silver in 2006. Based on the performances of Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito in this week's nationals, however, that could change at the Milan Games in just a few weeks. .