The world's greatest winter athletes have descended on northern Italy for what promises to be one of the most competitive Games in history -- Great Britain have already broken their record for gold medals.
So when and where will the action unfold, how can fans in the UK watch every moment, and which athletes could define these two weeks?
Here is everything you need to know about the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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Where is the 2026 Winter Olympics taking place?
It's called Milan-Cortina for a reason, with the 2026 Winter Olympics held across cities Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. It is the first Olympics to be officially co-hosted by multiple cities.
Milan will host multiple sports, including figure skating, ice hockey and speed skating.
Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the heart of the Alps, is around 250 miles from Milan by road and will be the home of sliding sports such as bobsled, skeleton and luge, as well as alpine skiing and curling.
The three other venue 'clusters' are Valtellina, Val di Fiemme and Verona.
When did it start and what is the full schedule?
The Winter Olympics officially started on Friday, Feb. 6 with the opening ceremony at the San Siro, although some preliminary curling, ice hockey and snowboarding events actually began from Wednesday, Feb. 4.
The opening ceremony featured performances from world-renowned singers -- in admittedly different genres -- Mariah Carey and Andrea Bocelli.
There will be events every day until the closing ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 22, which is taking place at the Verona Arena.
How to watch the 2026 Winter Olympics in the UK
The full 2026 Winter Olympics will be broadcast on TNT Sport and Discovery+ in the UK for subscribers. TNT Sport say they will have over 850 hours of action from every sport, venue and medal event.
TNT Sports 2 will serve as "the primary Olympic destination," with coverage beginning each morning at 8 a.m. GMT and live competition showed from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Discovery+ customers can watch the coverage 24/7 through a selection of live event feeds.
The BBC will also have coverage on free-to-air TV, although not as much live action as previous years.
Coverage of "all major events" will be on BBC One and BBC Two from 9am to 10pm each day.
The second live stream, Olympics Extra, will be available via BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app to show "additional" events from 8am to 11pm to show additional Winter Olympic Games.
Team GB claim Winter Olympics medals
Matt Weston claimed two golds in the skeleton, individually and alongside Tabitha Stoecker.
Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won gold in the snowboarding team event.
Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds lost the bronze medal match in curling.
The men's curling team of Bruce Mouat, Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie and Grant Hardie were forced to settle for silver.
Zoe Atkin claimed a bronze in the women's freeski halfpipe on the last day of the Games.
What is GB's Winter Olympics history?
Team GB claimed five medals at a Winter Olympics for the first time in Sochi in 2014 -- bolstered by their first ever Olympic medal on snow through Jenny Jones -- and matched that tally four years later in Pyeongchang.
In 2022, however, they only claimed one gold and one silver -- both in curling.
While they fell short of a stated hope of eight medals due to a succession of near misses at the start of the Games, Milan-Cortina has been Team GB's most successful in history. Although they have matched their record haul of five, the three golds pushes it above all the others.
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Information from PA was used in this report.
