Olympic Schedule Today, February 7, 2026: Men’s Downhill Gold, Snowboard Big Air Final, Team Figure Skating, and a Full Day of Curling
The Olympic schedule today, Saturday, February 7, 2026, is the first true “all-sports-on” day of the Winter Games, with medal moments on snow and ice stacked from early morning through late night in USA Eastern Time. The headline events include the men’s downhill awarding one of the first marquee alpine medals, a men’s snowboard big air final, high-impact team figure skating segments, and a relentless slate of mixed doubles curling that can quietly shape the tournament before most casual fans even notice.
What’s on the Olympic Schedule Today in Eastern Time
Here’s the day’s major competition blocks, in chronological order.
4:05 a.m.
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Great Britain vs Canada
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Switzerland vs Sweden
4:30 a.m.
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Freestyle skiing: Women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying
5:30 a.m.
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Alpine skiing: Men’s downhill
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Alpine skiing: Women’s downhill training
6:10 a.m.
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Women’s ice hockey, Group B: Germany vs Japan
6:45 a.m.
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Freestyle skiing: Women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying
7:00 a.m.
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Cross-country skiing: Women’s skiathlon
7:30 a.m.
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Luge: Women’s singles training
8:00 a.m.
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Freestyle skiing: Men’s freeski slopestyle qualifying
8:35 a.m.
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Estonia vs Norway
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Great Britain vs USA
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: South Korea vs Czechia
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Sweden vs Italy
8:40 a.m.
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Women’s ice hockey, Group B: Sweden vs Italy
10:00 a.m.
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Speed skating: Women’s 3000m
10:40 a.m.
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Women’s ice hockey, Group A: USA vs Finland
11:00 a.m.
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Luge: Men’s singles run 1
11:30 a.m.
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Freestyle skiing: Women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying
11:45 a.m.
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Ski jumping: Women’s normal hill
12:15 p.m.
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Figure skating: Training
12:30 p.m.
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Luge: Men’s singles run 2
1:05 p.m.
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Canada vs Estonia
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Czechia vs Switzerland
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Norway vs Italy
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: South Korea vs USA
1:30 p.m.
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Snowboarding: Men’s big air final
1:45 p.m.
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Figure skating: Men’s short program, team event
3:10 p.m.
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Women’s ice hockey, Group A: Switzerland vs Canada
3:15 p.m.
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Snowboarding: Men’s big air final
4:00 p.m.
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Figure skating: Free dance, team event
5:00 p.m.
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Cross-country skiing: Women’s skiathlon
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Great Britain vs USA
7:00 p.m.
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: South Korea vs USA
8:00 p.m.
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Ski jumping: Women’s normal hill
9:00 p.m.
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Curling, mixed doubles round-robin: Norway vs Italy
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Women’s ice hockey, Group B: Sweden vs Italy
Behind the Headline: Why February 7 Shapes the Games Early
The men’s downhill is the kind of event that creates instant narrative gravity. One race can define a nation’s early medal mood, and downhill winners often become the face of the first weekend because the discipline feels unmistakably Olympic: fast, dangerous, and decided by tiny margins.
Meanwhile, mixed doubles curling does its damage in a different way. It’s not flashy, but it’s brutally efficient at sorting contenders from pretenders. With multiple sessions today, a team can go from “fine” to “in trouble” before prime time, simply because the format gives you fewer chances to recover.
Team figure skating is the day’s emotional engine. Even if you follow singles more closely, the team event forces countries into strategic decisions: who skates now, who gets saved for later, and how much risk is worth taking when one mistake can swing points across four disciplines.
What We Still Don’t Know Today
A few missing pieces will determine how this schedule is remembered:
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Whether early conditions favor speed specialists or technical athletes in the marquee snow events
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Which curling pairings emerge as real title threats versus fast starters
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How conservative teams play the figure skating team segments, especially with larger individual events ahead
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Whether the day’s travel and venue shifts introduce fatigue that shows up late in hockey and luge
What Happens Next: Practical Scenarios to Watch
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A breakout medal creates momentum
Trigger: a surprise podium in men’s downhill or big air
Impact: boosts confidence and changes expectations for the next week -
Curling standings harden quickly
Trigger: a team drops two matches in one day
Impact: forces must-win pressure earlier than most fans expect -
Team figure skating pecking order becomes clearer
Trigger: clean skates from the favorites and errors from challengers
Impact: alters lineup strategy for upcoming segments
If you tell me your country or the sport you care about most, I can pull out the must-watch windows from today’s schedule in Eastern Time without spoiling anything you’d rather experience live.
