The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics’ early events continue today before Friday's opening ceremony. Curling began the action yesterday and continued today, with wins for the U.S., Canada, hosts Italy and Britain.

Irish Olympic athletes to wear traditional Aran knitwear at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, which begin on Friday

The Winter Olympics are just over a week away now, and Team Ireland has announced their four athletes to compete at the events in Milano-Cortina, Italy. There’s a mixture of young and old, with three of the four competing in their first-ever Winter Games.

Thomas Maloney Westgaard and Anabelle Zurbay will be the flagbearers for Ireland at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony.

The Canadian women have won gold at five of the last six Winter Olympics, but USA has all the momentum heading into the 2026 Milano Cortina Games.

Westmeath's relatively flat terrain is not known for producing Olympic skiers, but one 17-year-old with strong family ties to Rosemount and Moate will be taking to the slopes at the Winter Olympics in Italy this month!

From a new series of Silent Witness, to Netflix’s controversial Lucy Letby documentary and the start of both the Six Nations and the Winter Olympics, here’s the rundown of what to look forward to and catch up on this week.

Great Britain are taking 53 athletes to the Games, with tentative predictions suggesting they expect four to eight medals to be won. The record at one Games is five, in both 2014 and 2018.