A pair of stoats named Tina and Milo are the mascots for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Get ready to see the world's best athletes go head-to-head in their quest for the gold at the 2026 Winter Olympic venues spread across northern Italy. From the city lights of Milan to the snowy peaks of the Dolomites,

Ice hockey, curling, influencers—the 2026 Winter Olympics promise to be the most talked about Games in recent memory. WIRED has all the news you need coming out of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.

Inspired by the popular “NFL Red Zone,” NBC’s “Gold Zone” will deliver live, whip-around coverage of key events as they unfold during the Winter Games.

The United States has the largest Olympic delegation with 232 athletes, followed by Canada with over 200 athletes and Italy with 196.

Meanwhile, the crowd greeted Team U.S.A. with a round of applause

The opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics is complete at Milan's San Siro Stadium. Featuring simultaneous ceremonies in the mountain towns of Cortina, Livigno and Predazzo, the day's festivities included performances from Mariah Carey,

He founded the Scott Hamilton Skating Academy and is one of many notable Winter Olympians with ties to Tennessee. The Milan-Cortina Games in Italy will be Hamilton's 10th Olympics, where he will be an on-air analyst for NBC.