Your unofficial information to the Winter Olympics 2026 ON SALE NOW
Includes exclusive interviews, highlights the global superstars and a day-to-day guide of the Winter Olympics 2026 which start on February 6 in Italy.
(From L) Canada’s Meryeta O’Dine, France’s Lea Casta, Great Britain’s Charlotte Bankes and Switzerland’s Sina Siegenthaler compete in the Women’s Snowboard Cross semifinal 1 during the FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships 2025 in St. Moritz, on March 28, 2025. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)(Image: )
There are high hopes of an impressive medal haul for Team GB at this year’s Winter Olympics.
Our unofficial guide to the Games is on sale now and includes exclusive interviews, takes a look at our best chances for glory, highlights the global superstars not to miss and gives explainers to the 16 sports on show at Milan Cortina.
And so you can plan out your viewing schedule, we have a day-to-day guide so you catch all the action on the ice and snow.
Mia Brookes was just 16 when she became the youngest snowboarding world champion in history and has a chance of becoming the first Brit to win two medals at the same Winter Games in slopestyle and big air.
Zoe Atkin’s sister Izzy won bronze in 2018, and she herself won world gold in freestyle skiing’s halfpipe last year, while underlining her consistency by taking the World Cup title too.
Kirsty Muir is another freestyle skier to keep an eye on in the big air and slopestyle disciplines, a double X Games medallist and Youth Olympic medallist too, still aged just 21.
Thrills and spills are guaranteed in snowboard cross.
Charlotte Bankes was favourite in Beijing but crashed out, since winning world silver and claiming a slew of World Cup victories. Alongside Huw Nightingale, she’ll have a strong chance in the team event too.
Skeleton is Britain’s national winter sport. A run of five consecutive podiums in the women’s event – including three golds – ended last time in Beijing. It’s the men who fly the flag this time, with Matt Weston the dominant force as a two-time world champion and multiple World Cup winner. His closest rival could well be his team-mate, Marcus Wyatt.
It’s been 12 years since Britain’s last bobsleigh medal, but Brad Hall’s crew have proved consistent challengers to the powerhouse German sleds since Beijing, winning two world medals.
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson are right in the mix to win Britain’s first figure skating medal since Torvill and Dean claimed bronze in Lillehammer 32 years ago, having won world bronze in Boston last year.
And then there’s curling – Bruce Mouat has won two world titles since his silver in Beijing, while the women’s rink won silver at the recent Europeans. In addition, Mouat and Jen Dodds will be ones to beat in the 10-strong mixed team event.
But don’t be too parochial, sit back and wonder as Ilia Malinin, figure skating’s ‘Quad God’, defies gravity, or Lindsey Vonn defies time, returning to the Games for the first time in eight years and recently becoming the oldest skier to win a World Cup race at 41.
The stars of the NHL return to contest ice hockey medals for the first time in 12 years, while it’s not a question of if Johannes Høsflot Klæbo wins gold in cross-country, but how many.
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