A look ahead to the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps, including venue plans, competition zones and how the regional model compares to Milan

The men's hockey tournament at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 is the first tournament with NHL players since the 2014 Sochi Olympics, will feature all 12 teams playing three preliminary games in their respective groups, then all 12 moving on to a single-elimination playoff that will conclude with the gold medal game Feb. 22.

Day 14 from Milan Cortina will see six more Winter Olympics gold medals awarded. It starts with freeski women’s ski cross and men’s aerials, before the men’s halfpipe competition concludes later. More medals will be handed out in speedskating too,

Norway's dominance at the 2026 Winter Olympics reached an historic level on Friday. Norway picked up its 17th gold medal, which set a record for most first-place finishes by a country at a single Winter Games.

Canada has routed France in its final preliminary game in men's hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics, winning 10-2.

Ski mountaineer Emily Harrop enters the Olympics as one of the favorites, and her rise comes through a French military sports program. Skimo makes its Olympic debut at the Milan Cortina Games

ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) — Julia Simon became the first Frenchwoman to win an Olympic gold medal in the women’s 15-kilometer individual biathlon race and teammate Lou Jeanmonnot took silver at the the Milan Cortina Games on Wednesday.

Winter Olympics fans wer outraged at Peacock as they missed the only fight of the tournament and watched from a fan video.

PARIS (AP) — With all eyes on the Milan Cortina Olympics, the organization of the Winter Games in France in four years' time is faltering. Internal tensions have multiplied in recent months, against a backdrop of several resignations,

French champion Surya Bonaly backflipped on Olympic ice years before Ilia Malinin was even born, and it brought her penalization, not plaudits.

The Winter Olympics are set to bring new triumphs and losses to more familiar ground in the years ahead.