The Milan Cortina Olympics are off and running! Check out the full Feb. 8 rundown of events for the 2026 Winter Games now.

The 2026 Winter Olympics, featuring 16 sports with 116 medal events, will take place from Feb. 4 to Feb. 22 in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Preliminary events will begin on Feb. 4, the opening ceremony will be Feb.

It was unclear what caused the brief blip as players joked and killed time before the lights came on and action resumed.

A week after rupturing her ACL, Lindsey Vonn crashed just 13.4 seconds into the downhill race. The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team said on X that the veteran skier is in stable condition. Her teammate Breezy Johnson took gold, the first medal for the U.S. in these Games.

The first Olympic medals of the 2026 Games will be awarded on Saturday. Here are the livestream links to watch all of the competition on Day 1 (AP Photo).

Americans who top the podium at the Milan Cortina Games will be in line for a $37,500 bonus. Their competitors could collect as much as $800,000.

The 2026 Winter Olympics opened competition Wednesday night with the first curling matches on the schedule in Cortina only for the action to come to a brief halt because of a power outage. Officials paused the matches at the historic curling stadium when the lights dimmed and flickered and the main lights and heat in a nearby media center went out.