HBO Max unveils its program for Milan Cortina 2026 Olympics
Warner Bros. Discovery, the official broadcaster of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, is preparing to offer Italian audiences the widest possible coverage of the event: on HBO Max and discovery+ 865 hours of live competitions, enriched by three daily studio appointments from the main Olympic venues, for a total of more than 1,000 hours.
The only platforms in Italy to guarantee full coverage of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games will be HBO Max and discovery+: a real-time version of everything happening in every single discipline and at all times: biathlon, bobsledding, Nordic combined, curling, freestyle, ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, ski jumping, ski mountaineering (a sport making its debut at the Olympics), alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, short track, skeleton, luge and snowboarding.
Eurosport 1 will have a schedule entirely dedicated to Milan Cortina 2026, from the first races of the day to the last evening highlights, and together with the Olympic events on Eurosport 2 it will broadcast the 116 medal events live in full. Throughout the day on Eurosport 1 the races will be interspersed and in-depth by Eurosport Italia’s three live studios: Mountain Zone hosted by Lia Capizzi at 12 noon from the WBD House in Cortina, Half-Time Livigno hosted by Fabrizio Monari at 6 p.m. from the WBD Snow Dome, and Notte Bianca Milano hosted by Dario Donato at 11 p.m. from Casa Italia.
The races will be broadcast live from the WBD House in Cortina.
Also very rich coverage on the field with three exceptional correspondents: Guido Bagatta, Rachele Sangiuliano, Aglaia Pezzato will take us – between the WBD House in Cortina, the Snow Dome WBD in Livigno and Casa Italia in Triennale Milano – to live the emotions directly from the most iconic places of these Olympics and with the most awaited protagonists so as not to really miss anything that happens on the field
Kristian Ghedina is the new Olympic face of Eurosport. A legend of the 1990s with 13 World Cup victories in alpine skiing, including the famous downhill races in Cortina, Wengen, Val Gardena, Beaver Creek and Kitzbühel, Ghedina will commentate on the Olympic alpine skiing races from the WBD House. With him and on the slopes of Bormio and Cortina are two-time Olympic alpine skiing champion Tina Maze and former alpine skier Francesca Marsaglia.
Carolina Kostner, an icon of figure skating who has always been beloved by the Italian public, bronze medalist at Sochi 2014, world champion in 2012 and 5-time European gold medalist, will be on the microphones of Eurosport for the first time, host of Notte Bianca Milano at Casa Italia. At the technical commentary of the races and among the Olympic venues, Camilla Alfieri, Daniela Merighetti and Silvano Varettoni for alpine skiing, Elisa Nakab for freestyle and Turin 2006 Olympic champion Fulvio Valbusa, Eurosport’s historic voice of cross-country skiing.
