Usa Canada Hockey Game headlines final day at Milan Cortina
The usa canada hockey game is the marquee event as the Milan Cortina Olympics wrap up Sunday with five gold-medal events and the closing ceremony, and broadcasters expect heavy interest after the U. S. cruised to a 6-2 semifinal win over Slovakia.
Usa Canada Hockey Game: teams, timing and roster notes
The men’s final pits the United States and Canada, with the piece noting the United States is expected to have a far tougher challenge than it faced in its 6-2 win over Slovakia in the semifinals. The men’s game is listed for 4: 40 a. m. ET (10: 40 a. m. in Italy) and will be shown on Peacock. Canada will again be without defenseman Josh Morrissey, and captain Sidney Crosby, injured in the quarterfinals, had not been ruled out as of Saturday afternoon. The preview suggested the men’s game could top the 9. 3 million who watched last year’s 4 Nations final, after the women’s hockey gold medal game between the same two nations drew an average U. S. audience of 5. 3 million viewers.
Halfpipe final delayed as Eileen Gu waits
Snow in Livigno led to the postponement of the halfpipe final that had been scheduled for Saturday night. Eileen Gu, the 22-year-old who was born in San Francisco, attends Stanford and competes for China, is the defending gold medalist and qualified fifth for the final; Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin is the top qualifier. Gu has already taken silver in slopestyle and in big air at these Games and is seeking to medal in all three freestyle skiing events for the second successive Olympics. The halfpipe final is listed at 4 a. m. ET (10 a. m. in Italy) on the schedule and will be shown on Peacock.
Women’s 50km: a first at the Olympics and a final for Jessie Diggins
The women’s 50km cross-country race will be held for the first time at the Olympics, a move the International Olympic Committee called part of making the 2026 Games “the most gender-balanced Olympic Winter Games in history. ” Fifty kilometers converts to a little more than 31 miles, longer than a marathon (26. 2 miles). Based on results from 50km classic World Cup races, the top finishers in Tesero are expected to take a little more than two hours and 10 minutes to complete the race. The event will mark the final Olympic appearance for the United States’ Jessie Diggins, who earned silver in 2022 in the 30km freestyle and who took bronze in the 10km this month, bringing her Olympic medal total to four. Sweden’s Ebba Andersson, with two individual silvers in these Games, is among the favorites; her teammate Frida Karlsson, who won two individual golds here, withdrew due to illness.
Team sprint heats and curling context
The team sprint heats are scheduled with Heat 3 at 4 a. m. ET (10 a. m. in Italy) and Heat 4 at 6: 15 a. m. ET (12: 15 p. m. in Italy), with coverage on Peacock. German teams have the three fastest combined times through two heats; Germany has claimed gold and silver in the event in each of the last two Olympics and won the event at every Olympics from 1994 to 2006.
Closing ceremony and other closing-day moments
The Milan Cortina Olympics wrap up Sunday with the five gold-medal events followed by the closing ceremony, listed for 8: 10 a. m. ET (2: 10 p. m. in Italy) with coverage on Peacock. The Games produced some distinctive moments along the way: a dog loping down the homestretch during the women’s cross-country skiing team sprint qualifying, a biathlete who confessed on television to cheating on his girlfriend, and a skier who walked off into the woods after missing a gate on his final run. The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics closing ceremony.
What remains scheduled next is the sequence of Sunday’s five gold-medal events followed by the closing ceremony at 8: 10 a. m. ET; the halfpipe final will take place once organizers reschedule the postponed session in Livigno.
