Curling at the Winter Olympics is always a fan-favorite event, but its viral popularity reached new heights thanks to a heated confrontation between Team Canada and Team Sweden at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games.

The Winter Olympics got underway Wednesday with the first curling matches in Cortina, but came to a halt only moments later because of a power outage.

Only a few hours after being accused of cheating by Sweden, Canada's men's curling team faced another charge of double-touching the stone from Switzerland.

Halfway between chess and bocce, curling is experiencing an evolution thanks to technology. From brooms to stones to footwear, here’s everything you need to know about the game’s gadgets.

Until Friday, the American women had never beaten Canada -- a perennial favorite that has medaled in every Winter Games since curling was added to the Olympics in 1998. The U.S. men beat the Canadians for the first time in the 2018 round-robin and again in the semifinals en route to their gold medal victory in Pyeongchang.

Another full day of action on the slopes and on the ice is coming our way from the 2026 Winter Olympics, as the Milan-Cortina Games prepare to enter the second and final week of competition. On Saturday,

The 2026 Winter Olympics continue Saturday with medal events in Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country skiing, skeleton, snowboarding, and speed skating.

The American duo came back to beat Italy with their last stone of the match to advance to the gold medal game