Winter Milano Cortina 2026

[Expensive_Horse5538]

The 2026 Winter Olympics kick off on Wednesday the 4th of February, with the Opening Ceremony to be held early Saturday morning Australia time. This year the games will be held in Milano Cortina in Italy. It's the 4th time Italy has hosted, and it's the 35 edition of the Winter Games.

The games can be watched on Nine, 9Now and Stan Sport.

Australia will be sending it's second largest team of 53 athletes, with 27 debuting at their first Winter Olympics. The team includes 5 teenagers.

Will be a decent chance at medals - so far this season, 11 have claimed a total of 26 medals at World Cup level, including 13 golds.

Three athletes - Jakara Anthony (moguls), Adam Lambert (snowboard cross) and Indra Brown (freeski park and pipe) — currently lead their respective World Cup standings, while four others - Josie Baff (snowboard cross), Matt Graham (moguls), Val Guseli (snowboard park and pipe) and Bree Walker (monobob) - are second.

Let's bring home the gold.

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

Australia blends youth and experience in bid for most successful Winter Games

From five teenagers making their Winter Olympics debut to five-time Olympian and gold medal hopeful Scott James, Australia has named its second-largest team in history for the Milan-Cortina Games.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Daniel6]

Italy can do the funniest thing and deny the American athletes a visa restriction.

Don’t allow them into the country.

 

[BomToydd]

Surprised there wasn't already a thread for this.

The 2026 Winter Olympics kick off on Wednesday the 4th of February, with the Opening Ceremony to be held early Saturday morning Australia time. This year the games will be held in Milano Cortina in Italy. It's the 4th time Italy has hosted, and it's the 35 edition of the Winter Games.

The games can be watched on Nine, 9Now and Stan Sport.

Australia will be sending it's second largest team of 53 athletes, with 27 debuting at their first Winter Olympics. The team includes 5 teenagers.

Will be a decent chance at medals - so far this season, 11 have claimed a total of 26 medals at World Cup level, including 13 golds.

Three athletes - Jakara Anthony (moguls), Adam Lambert (snowboard cross) and Indra Brown (freeski park and pipe) — currently lead their respective World Cup standings, while four others - Josie Baff (snowboard cross), Matt Graham (moguls), Val Guseli (snowboard park and pipe) and Bree Walker (monobob) - are second.

Let's bring home the gold.

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

Australia blends youth and experience in bid for most successful Winter Games

From five teenagers making their Winter Olympics debut to five-time Olympian and gold medal hopeful Scott James, Australia has named its second-largest team in history for the Milan-Cortina Games.

www.abc.net.au

Always a couple of medal chances for Australia in women's aerials too.

 

[Satan]

Lindsay Vonn crashed in her last warm up .possible knee injury

 

[BomToydd]

Was just checking out the australian broadcast and streaming arrangements for these olympics and it appears most of it is going to be paywalled on stan sport with only highlights and recaps on 9now. The only free live coverage will be one free to air channel at a time, 9 or 9gem when shit like mafs is on. So basically whatever events 9 choose to show in between all their usual annoying australian centric interviews, recaps and replays of completed events. So disappointing.
Like to go from every sport being live and free on 9now for Paris to literally nothing for this is a joke. Literally had more live and free options on secondary free to air channels before streaming was even took off.

 

[Expensive_Horse5538]

Was just checking out the australian broadcast and streaming arrangements for these olympics and it appears most of it is going to be paywalled on stan sport with only highlights and recaps on 9now. The only free live coverage will be one free to air channel at a time, 9 or 9gem when shit like mafs is on. So basically whatever events 9 choose to show in between all their usual annoying australian centric interviews, recaps and replays of completed events. So disappointing.
Like to go from every sport being live and free on 9now for Paris to literally nothing for this is a joke. Literally had more live and free options on secondary free to air channels before streaming was even took off.

Even Seven had every event live on 7+.
Meanwhile it's not much better for the Winter Paralympics either - still being relegated to a hour long highlights package with no live streaming for events

 

[Leeda]

Riding the bumps with a grin....go snow mobile...or skidoo....yeah

 

[Expensive_Horse5538]

Minor COVID scare for team Australia ahead of the games:

Aussie Olympic preparations continue after COVID-19 positive tests

Australia's Winter Olympics preparations will continue with minimal fuss in northern Italy despite two members of staff testing positive for COVID-19.

www.abc.net.au

Two staff members working with Australia's Winter Olympic team have tested positive to COVID-19.
The individuals, who will not be competing at the 25th edition of the Olympic Winter Games, were symptomatic and tested positive on January 28 and 31, with measures in place to contain any possible spread of infection.

 

[Cleavy]

looking at the schedule, so much curling!!!

 

[Cleavy]

Was just checking out the australian broadcast and streaming arrangements for these olympics and it appears most of it is going to be paywalled on stan sport with only highlights and recaps on 9now. The only free live coverage will be one free to air channel at a time, 9 or 9gem when shit like mafs is on. So basically whatever events 9 choose to show in between all their usual annoying australian centric interviews, recaps and replays of completed events. So disappointing.
Like to go from every sport being live and free on 9now for Paris to literally nothing for this is a joke. Literally had more live and free options on secondary free to air channels before streaming was even took off.

crap, that kills any interest I had

 

[BomToydd]

crap, that kills any interest I had

Same. Can't see many people subscribing to stan just for winter olympics. To go from the last few Olympics all being live and free with full replays to pretty much just whatever 9 decides to show live will kill so much interest

 

[Satan]

Was the bradbury race shown live of delayed,

 

[The Dice Man]

In for this. I considered going for a few events but my wife is heavily pregnant and wouldn’t appreciate it.

 

[MarcMaverick]

looking at the schedule, so much curling!!!

Grab your brooms and stones.

 

[MisterMarcus]

What I low-key love about the Winter Olympics is that the usual "world power" is kind of turned on its head.

"Here's someone from the US, they'll probably be okay....here's someone from FINLAND, I bet they'll be awesome!"

 

[Expensive_Horse5538]

Spanish figure skater says Minions music barred due to copyright issue

Spanish figure skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate says he will not be allowed to use the music from the Minions film franchise that he has skated to throughout the season at the Milano Cortina Games due to a copyright clearance issue.

www.abc.net.au

 

[MarcMaverick]

Spanish figure skater says Minions music barred due to copyright issue

Spanish figure skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate says he will not be allowed to use the music from the Minions film franchise that he has skated to throughout the season at the Milano Cortina Games due to a copyright clearance issue.

www.abc.net.au

Gru must've had a word.

 

[Cleavy]

Spanish figure skater says Minions music barred due to copyright issue

Spanish figure skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate says he will not be allowed to use the music from the Minions film franchise that he has skated to throughout the season at the Milano Cortina Games due to a copyright clearance issue.

www.abc.net.au

that's bananas!

 

[Expensive_Horse5538]

While there are still two days to go until the Opening Ceremony, as always a number of events will begin before the games officially commence.

Each morning I'll provide a short write up of what has happened (both with our Aussie athletes, as well as those from around the world), as well as what the day ahead will look like, and what are the events to watch.

Tonight Nine will have a preview program following MAFS (delayed if you are not in the AEDT timezone), with live coverage of events commencing at 5am on 9Gem, and running until 7am.

Aussie's in action - unfortunately, there will only be one Australian in action tonight:

• 5am - Alexandra Ferlazzo - Luge Men's Singles (Training Session) - Four-time Olympian, 5th 2024 World Championships, 13th at Winterberg World Cup. Has maintained a consistent ranking of around 19-12 since the 2022 Games.

What else to keep an eye on:
There is not a lot on overall, with the opening stages of Mixed Doubles Curling (beings just after 5am), and a training session for the Men's Alpine Skiing.

Let's bring it on!

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

 

[Satan]

Lindsey vonn skiing with a torn acl and knee brace

Interesting

 

[Corn Cobbers]

Lindsey vonn skiing with a torn acl and knee brace

Interesting

Lol what an idiot

 

[BigVic]

I have Stan for the EPL and cannot wait for the Olympics on the back of the tennis that just concluded.

 

[Expensive_Horse5538]

Spanish figure skater says Minions music barred due to copyright issue

Spanish figure skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate says he will not be allowed to use the music from the Minions film franchise that he has skated to throughout the season at the Milano Cortina Games due to a copyright clearance issue.

www.abc.net.au

Now given the green light

Figure skater saved from scrapping Olympic routine after Minions music copyright dispute

Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté has been spared a last-minute scramble to redesign his Olympic short program after overcoming a copyright dispute

www.theguardian.com

 

[Expensive_Horse5538]

Our flag bareers for the opening ceremony are freestyle skier and 2022 Gold Medallist Jakara Anthony, and fellow freestyle skier and 2018 Silver Medallist Matt Graham.

 

[Satan]

Nice uniform