Though some events have already gotten underway, the 2026 Winter Olympics officially kick off on Friday with the Opening Ceremony, with coverage on NBC and Peacock beginning at 1:40 p.m. ET (7:40 p.m.

It's been a long time since NHL players competed at the Olympics. But that drought is about to officially come to end.

Lindsey Vonn is arguably the best in the sport's history, and even after a crash at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics ended her comeback bid from retirement, that shouldn't tarnish her legacy, NBC's Mike Tirico said Sunday.

While the first events of the 2026 Milano Cortina Games got underway midweek, Friday's opening ceremony officially got things up and running. Saturday featured a full schedule, complete with events in marquee sports like figure skating,

Saturday’s blockbuster audience – the largest in the last 43 Winter Games shows (since Day 10 of the 2014 Sochi Olympics) and up 92% from the opening Saturday of the 2022 Beijing Olympics (14.8 million viewers) -- follows Friday’s Opening Ceremony, which averaged 21.4 million viewers.

Savannah Guthrie’s would-be co-anchors at the Olympics publicly supported her after she pulled out of co-hosting the Opening Ceremonies in Italy due to her mother’s disappearance. Terry Gannon and Guthrie’s replacement, Mary Carillo, acknowledged her absence during Friday’s telecast from the ceremony in Milan.