The 2026 Milano/Cortina Winter Olympics Viewing Schedule – When to Catch Aussie Athletes in Action
Mountainwatch / Events
The 2026 winter Olympics are on and there is plenty of action running through until the closing ceremony on February 23rd.
Australia has a strong team and medal contenders in many of the on-mountain snow events including Australian team flag bearers for tomorrow’s opening ceremony, current Olympic moguls champ Jakara Anthony and Matt Graham who claimed silver moguls in the 2028 games. Scotty James is in red hot form going into the games, his one focus being the gold medal in snowboard halfpipe while Valentino Guseli is also in the mix in the halfpipe.
We have also have a strong team in women’s snowboard slopestyle and Big Air with 2022 Winter Games bronze medalist Tess Coady leading newcomers Meila Stalker and Ally Hickman. The snowboard cross team is also in form heading into the games with Adam Lambert on the podium in the past three world cups while Josie Baff, currently number 2 on the world rankings, is a podium contender. Teammates Cam Bolton, Mia Clift and Jarred Hughes round out a very strong snowboard cross team.
In freeski park and pipe Indra Brown, who just turned 16, goes into the games with three halfpipe podiums – bronze, silver and gold – in her first four World Cup events and backed that up with a silver in the X Games in Aspen two weeks ago. If she can add Olympic medal to that haul Indra will lay claim to the most impressive rookie year ever by an Australian snow athlete.
Daisy Thomas, slopestyle and Big Air, is another freeski athlete to watch and is looking strong in training despite tearing her ACL in a Big Air World Cup eight weeks ago. Daisy is our sole slopestyle and Big Air competitor after a knee injury requiring surgery forced 2022 Olympian Abi Harrigan to withdraw from these Games.
Still in freestyle, our aerialists also go into the games as medal favourites, Laura Peel and Danielle Sciott both claiming World Cup gold this season.
The Winter Olympics involve sports of consequence and are always spectacular. There are plenty of events you don’t want to miss like the Downhill and Super G Alpine races, skier and boarder cross, both snowboarding and freeskiing big air, slopestyle and halfpipe, freestyle moguls and aerials, ski jumping, the luge, speed skating and ice hockey … the list goes on.
It is going to be a busy couple of weeks and you can watch all the action live on the Nine Network, Stan Sport and Nine’s streaming service 9Now .
While Australian has a number of athletes competing on the ice and in sliding sports, including potential bobsled medalist Bree Walker, we thought we’d focus our schedule on the on-mountain sports – specifically skiing, snowboarding and cross-country events.
Our recommended schedule is below and you can check out the schedule for events here.
Thursday Feb 5th
Men’s snowboard Big Air qualifications
Friday February 6th
Opening ceremony
Saturday Feb 7th
Freeski slopestyle: men’s and women’s qualifications
Snowboard Big Air: Men’s Final
Alpine Skiing: Men’s downhill
Cross Country skiing: women’s 10K+ 10k skiathalon
Sunday Feb 8th
Women’s snowboard Big Air qualifications
Alpine skiing: Women’s downhill
Cross Country skiing: Men’s 10K+ 10k skiathalon
Parallel snowboard: men’s and women’s qualifications and finals
Monday Feb 9th
Women’s snowboard Big Air finals
Freeski Ski slopestyle women’s finals
Tuesday Feb 10th
Freeski men’s slopestyle final
Mogul skiing: Men’s qualification
Cross country skiing: Men’s and women’s sprint qualifications and finals
Wednesday Feb 11th
Moguls: Women’s qualification and final
Alpine skiing: Men’s Super G
Snowboard halfpipe: men’s and women’s qualification
Thursday Feb 12th
Moguls: men’s qualification and final
Snowboard halfpipe: women’s final
Alpine skiing: Women’s super G
Cross Country: women’s 10km Interval Start Free
Friday Feb 13th
Snowboard halfpipe: men’s final
Snowboard Cross: men’s qualification
Cross Country: women’s 10km Interval Start Free
Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom: Men’s and women’s; qualification and finals
Saturday Feb 14th:
Snowboard cross: Men’s final
Snowboard Cross: Women’s qualification
Alpine skiing: Men’s giant slalom
Dual moguls: women’s
Freeski Big Air: Women’s qualification
Snowboard halfpipe: Men’s and women’s qualification runs
Snowboard Cross: Women’s seeding round and finals
Sunday Feb 15th
Snowboard Cross: Women’s finals
Dual moguls: men’s
Freeski Big Air: Men’s qualifications
Alpine skiing: Women’s Giant slalom
Cross Country: Men’s 4×7.5km relay
Monday Feb 16th
Snowboard slopestyle: men’s and women’s qualifications
Snowboard cross: Mixed teams
Freeski Big Air: Women’s Final
Alpine skiing: Men’s slalom
Tuesday Feb 17th
Snowboard slopestyle: women’s finals
Freeski Big Air: Men’s final
Aerials: men’s and women’s qualifications
Wednesday Feb 18th
Snowboard slopestyle: Men’s final
Alpine skiing: women’s slalom
Aerials; Women’s finals
Cross country: men’s women’s team sprint free qualification and finals
Thursday Feb 19th
Aerials: Men’s final
Freeski halfpipe: men’s and women’s qualifications
Friday Feb 20th
Freeski halfpipe: Men’s finals
Ice Hockey: Women;s final
Saturday Feb 21st
Freeski Halfpipe: Women’s finals
Aerials: Mixed teams
Snowboard cross: Men’s seeding rounds and finals
Alpine skiing: Men’s Combined downhill and slalom
Cross country: Men’s 50km Mass Start Classic
Aerial skiing: Mixed team Aerial finals
Sunday Feb 22nd
Cross country: Women’s 50km Mass Start Classic
Ice Hockey: men’s final
Monday, Feb 23rd
Closing Ceremony
