In reaching out to various sporting communities world wide we recently received the following info from James Fry at gotoomedia.com regarding his insight into the upcoming Olympics.
Enjoy the read and thanks to James for the info.
We’ve also compiled a separate data-driven report on medal predictions you might find interesting.
Olympic preview!!
Key events Milano Cortina 2026
With over 116 medal events across 16 sports, I’m focusing on the sports that Canada has historically excelled in: ice hockey, curling, freestyle skiing, figure skating, and speed skating.
I’ve compiled a schedule of key events for each sport, and in the coming weeks, I’ll be taking a closer look at Canada’s chances of a podium finish. Stay tuned.
Opening ceremony: 6 February
Closing ceremony: 22 February
Note: all times are stated in Central European Time (CET).
Olympic ice hockey
With the return of NHL players to the Olympics for the first time since Sochi 2014, the stakes for men’s hockey are high.
The women’s team are the reigning Olympic champions from Beijing 2022, meaning all of Canada will be watching with bated breath to see if they can hold the title.
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Preliminaries will start even before the opening ceremony, while the podium matches will be held in the closing days of the Olympics for a suitably grand finale.
| Team | Countries | Date and time (CET) | Event type |
| Women | Canada vs. Finland | 5 February at 21:10 | Preliminary |
| Women | Canada vs. Switzerland | 7 February at 21:10 | Preliminary |
| Women | Canada vs. Czech Republic | 9 February at 21:10 | Preliminary |
| Women | Canada vs. USA | 10 February at 20:10 | Preliminary |
| Men | Canada vs. Czech Republic | 12 February at 16:40 | Preliminary |
| Men | Canada vs. Switzerland | 13 February at 21:10 | Preliminary |
| Men | Canada vs. France | 15 February at 16:40 | Preliminary |
| Women | ? vs. ? | 21 February 19:10 | Gold medal game |
| Men | ? vs. ? | 22 February 14:10 | Gold medal game |
Curling
Curling is one of Canada’s most beloved sports, and we’ve dominated it ever since it was brought back onto the Olympic program in 1998.
It remains to be seen which countries will be in the final face-offs, but I’m pretty confident that Canada will be one of them.
| Division | Teams | Date and time (CET) | Event type |
| Mixed doubles | ? vs. ? | 10 February at 18:05 | Gold medal game |
| Men | ? vs. ? | 21 February at 19:05 | Gold medal game |
| Women | ? vs. ? | 22 February at 11:05 | Gold medal game |
Freestyle skiing (medal events)
While the Europeans might be the favourites for alpine skiing and ski mountaineering (the newest sport to be added to the Olympics, combining elements of mountaineering and uphill and downhill skiing), us Canadians are sure hands at technical ski artistry.
With so many sub-disciplines in freestyle skiing, there will be an opportunity to watch events throughout the whole run of the Winter 2026 Olympics. Personally,
I’ll be cheering on Mikaël Kingsbury (Moguls) and Cassie Sharpe (Halfpipe) as sure bets to bring home medals.
| Division | Gender | Date and time (CET) |
| Slopestyle | Women | 9 February at 13:28 |
| Slopestyle | Men | 10 February at 13:28 |
| Moguls | Women | 11 February at 14:55 |
| Moguls | Men | 12 February at 12:55 |
| Dual Moguls | Women | 14 February at 11:46 and 11:48 |
| Dual Moguls | Men | 15 February at 11:46 and 11:48 |
| Big Air | Women | 16 February at 20:17 |
| Big Air | Men | 17 February at 20:17 |
| Aerials | Women | 18 February at 12:30 |
| Aerials | Men | 19 February at 12:30 |
| Halfpipe | Men | 20 February at 20:28 |
| Halfpipe | Women | 21 February at 20:28 |
| Ski cross | Women | 20 February at 13:10 and 13:15 |
| Ski cross | Men | 21 February at 13:10 and 13:15 |
Figure skating (medal events)
Canada has been decorated with 29 figure skating medals in previous Olympic games. I’m excited to see how many more we can add to that figure (pun sort of intended) at these upcoming events.
Canada unfortunately didn’t win any medals in this discipline in the last Olympics, but we have high hopes for Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps (Pair skating) to mount the podium in 2026.
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