The first medals of the Winter Games will be awarded today, in men’s downhill skiing, women's 10km and 10km skiathlon, women’s normal hill ski jumping, men’s snowboard Big Air and women’s 3,000-meter speed skating.

The men's figure skating team event continues with the short program, which will feature American superstar Malinin.

Here are the top five things to watch Saturday at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics: Medals will begin to be handed out Saturday morning. The first medal events are men's downhill skiing and the women's 20 km skiathlon. There will also be medals awarded for women's 3000m speed skating, men's big air snowboarding and women's normal hill ski jumping.

Shaun White is still contributing to the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics despite retiring from competition.

The powerful U.S. figure skating squad will have its first opportunity to shine at the Winter Olympics on Friday when the team competition begins at the Milano Ice Skating Arena just hours before the opening ceremony.