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Here is the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics competition schedule for Saturday, Feb. 7. The games are exclusively airing across NBC's suite of networks with many competitions airing live on its streaming service, Peacock, which you cansign up for here.

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Feb. 7 Winter Olympics events

All times Eastern and accurate as of Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, at 3:20 p.m.

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• 4:05 a.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - GBR vs. CAN, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 4:05 a.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - SWE vs. SUI, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 4:30 a.m. - Freestyle Skiing: Women's Freeski Slopestyle Qualification, Livigno Snow Park (Livigno, Valtellina)

• 5:30 a.m. - Alpine Skiing: Men's Downhill (Medal Event), Stelvio Ski Centre (Bormio, Valtellina)

• 5:30 a.m. - Alpine Skiing: Women's Downhill 3rd Official Training, Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 6:10 a.m. - Ice Hockey: Women's Preliminary (GER vs. JPN), Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena

• 7 a.m. - Cross-Country Skiing: Women's 10km + 10 km Skiathlon (Medal Event), Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium (Val di Fiemme)

• 7:30 a.m. - Luge: Women's Singles Official Training 3 & 4, Cortina Sliding Centre (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 8 a.m. - Freestyle Skiing: Men's Freeski Slopestyle Qualification, Livigno Snow Park (Livigno, Valtellina)

• 8:35 a.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - EST vs. NOR, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 8:35 a.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - CZE vs. KOR, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 8:35 a.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - SWE vs. ITA, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 8:35 a.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - GBR vs. USA, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 8:40 a.m. - Ice Hockey: Women's Preliminary (SWE vs. ITA), Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena

• 10 a.m. - Speed Skating: Women's 3000m (Medal Event), Milano Speed Skating Stadium (Rho, Milan)

• 10:40 a.m. - Ice Hockey: Women's Preliminary (USA vs. FIN), Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena

• 11 a.m. - Luge: Men's Singles Runs 1 & 2, Cortina Sliding Centre (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 11:45 a.m. - Ski Jumping: Women's Normal Hill Individual - Trial Round, Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium (Val di Fiemme)

• 12:45 a.m. - Ski Jumping: Women's Normal Hill Individual - First Round, Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium (Val di Fiemme)

• 1:05 p.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - CAN vs. EST, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 1:05 p.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - CZE vs. SUI, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 1:05 p.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - NOR vs. ITA, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 1:05 p.m. - Curling: Mixed Doubles Round Robin - USA vs. KOR, Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

• 1:30 p.m. - Snowboarding: Men's Big Air Final (Medal Event), Livigno Snow Park (Livigno, Valtellina)

• 1:45 p.m. - Figure Skating: Team Event - Ice Dance, Milano Ice Skating Arena (Milan)

• 3:10 p.m. - Ice Hockey: Women's Preliminary (SUI vs. CAN), Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena

• 4:05 p.m. - Figure Skating: Team Event - Ice Dance, Milano Ice Skating Arena (Milan)

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The Winter Games have begun in Italy. From the rink to the slopes, a new generation of stars has emerged to chase gold. We'll keep you connected to all of the thrilling moments and top stories as we track the medal race each day of the Games.

The U.S. women's hockey, mixed doubles curling and ice dance teams will look to continue their dominant early showing, while eyes will be on Lindsey Vonn to see if she does another training run before Sunday's Olympic women's downhill competition.

Here are the top five things to watch Saturday at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics:

1. Medals

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.

2.Lindsey Vonn training run?

After participating in Friday's training run, Lindsey Vonn's coach, Aksel Lund Svindal, said he was not sure if Vonn would participate in Saturday's training run, but she is on the list of starters. This will be her second chance after the cancelation of the first training on Thursday.

A week after tearing her ACL during the upper sectionof the World Cup downhill race in Switzerland,Vonn completed a successful training runearly Friday morning. The run was required if she wanted to compete in Sunday's Olympic women's downhill competition. Vonn clocked in at 1:40.33, a time that placed her 11th out of the 43 finishers.

The 41-year-old is a four-time overall World Cup champion and won gold in the downhill event at the 2010 Olympics. Vonn made a return after retiring from skiing in 2019.

3. U.S. women's hockey set to face illness-stricken Finland

The U.S. women's hockey team meets Finland in its second game of the 2026 Olympics. The U.S. opened the Olympics with a5-1 win over Czechia. Finland has yet to play after their opening game against Canada was postponed until Thursday aftera norovirus outbreak.

Norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control, is a "very contagious" illness that is the leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea in the United States. Most people with norovirus illness recover in 72 hours or less, the CDC says, but they can still spread the virus for several more days afterward.

The Finnish team is reportedly optimistic about playing after most of the team took part in practice. The Americans, meanwhile, have taken precautions to protect themselves from catching the virus.

4. Can U.S. mixed doubles curling team stay undefeated?

The U.S. mixed doubles curling team is off to arecord-setting, undefeated start after two days of competition with wins over Canada and Czechiaon Friday. Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin's 4-0 start was the best among any U.S. men's, women's or mixed doubles curling team since the sport was added to the Olympics in 1998.

On Saturday, it will be a challenge to stay undefeated as they take on 5-0 Great Britain and 0-4 South Korea in round-robin play.

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5. Free dance, men's short program in team figure skating

Team USA will enter the day with the lead in the team competition after strong performances Friday from Madison Chock and Evan Bates in the rhythm dance and reigning world championAlysa Liuin the women's short program. Team Japan sits just two points behind the U.S. in second place after Kaori Sakamoto's strong short program.

Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026

All times ET.

Alpine Skiing

• 5:30 a.m.: Men's final (USA Network)🏅

Cross-Country Skiing

20 kilometer skiathlon

• 7 a.m.: Women's final (NBC)🏅

Curling

Mixed doubles round-robin

• 4:05 a.m.: Great Britain vs. Canada (USA Network), Switzerland vs. Sweden

• 8:35 a.m.: Estonia vs. Norway, Czechia vs. South Korea, Sweden vs. Italy, Great Britain vs. USA (USA Network at 9:30 a.m.)

• 1:05 p.m.: South Korea vs. USA, Canada vs. Estonia, Czechia vs. Switzerland, Norway vs. Italy

Figure Skating

Team competition

• 1:45 p.m.: Men's short program (NBC)

• 4 p.m.: Free dance (NBC)

Freestyle Skiing

• 4:30 a.m.: Women's qualifying (USA Network; NBC picks up coverage at 5:30 a.m.)

• 8 a.m.: Men's qualifying (NBC)

Hockey

Women's pool play

• 6:10 a.m: Germany vs. Japan

• 8:40 a.m.: Sweden vs. Italy

• 10:40 a.m.: USA vs. Finland (USA Network)

• 3:10 p.m.: Switzerland vs. Canada (USA Network)

Luge

Men's singles

• 11 a.m.: Runs 1, 2 (Run 2 airs live on NBC beginning at 12:45 p.m.)

Ski Jumping

Normal hill

• 11:45 a.m.: Women's final (airs on USA Network at 8 p.m.)🏅

Snowboarding

• 1:30 p.m.: Men's final (USA Network) 🏅

Speed Skating

3000 meters

• 10 a.m.: Women's final (NBC coverage begins at 10:05 a.m.) 🏅

MILAN (AP) —The Milan Cortina Winter Olympicsofficially started on Friday, with theopening ceremonyand the lighting of the cauldrons.

And these Games are particularly supersized.

These are the first Olympics to fully embrace cost-cutting reforms installed by the International Olympic Committee, and use mostly existing venues — which has meant scattering the Games all over northern Italy.

Here's a look at some of the key numbers ahead of the opening ceremony:

The number of new sports at these Games.Ski mountaineering— also know as skimo — is making its Olympic debut. The sport combines uphill sprinting (on boots and on skis) and downhill skiing.

That's how many times Italy has hosted the Winter Olympics previously: in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 and Turin in 2006. Italy has held the Summer Games once, in Rome in 1960.

The number of locationsfor events in the most spread-out Winter Games ever. Ice sports will take place in Milan and women's Alpine skiing, curling and sliding events in Cortina — the two main hubs. But there will also be competition in Bormio, Livigno, Predazzo, Tesero and Anterselva, and the closing ceremony will take place in Verona.

Number of Russian athletesset to compete as neutral individuals along with seven Belarusians. They are not allowed to compete under their national flag or anthem and cannot take part in the opening ceremony athlete parades.

The number of days of competition.

The age difference (in years) between Team USA's oldest athlete at the Games and its youngest. Curler Rich Ruohonen will set a Team USA Winter Olympic record at age 54, while the youngest member of the team is 15-year-old freeskier Abby Winterberger.

Lindsey Vonn's age at her fifth Olympics after making a sensational return to ski racing. If she wins what would be a fourth Olympics medal she would edge France'sJohan Clarey— who was also 41 when he claimed downhill silver in 2022 — to become the oldest Olympic Alpine skiing medalist ever.

How oldSan Siroturns this year. The stadium that will host the opening ceremony will be knocked down in the next few years after a new arena is built next to it.

The number of medal events at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. If that sounds like a lot, it's not even close to the Summer Games. There will be more than 350 medal events at the2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The number of athletes competing at the Milan Cortina Games. The United States will have the largest presence with 235 athletes — the largest ever U.S. Winter Olympics team. Host nationItaly will have 196.

That's how many volunteers will be helping out at the Games. About 900 of them will be working behind the scenes at the opening ceremony.

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By Yuliia Dysa and Alina Smutko

KYIV, Feb 7 (Reuters) - When the Davydenko family woke up shivering through the night in their winter coats and hats, buried under several layers of duvets, they knew it was time to abandon their apartment in Kyiv.

Systematic Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy grid since October last year have left their ​12th-floor flat with no electricity for eight days and heating for almost two weeks.

In the meantime, nighttime temperatures plunged to minus 20 degrees Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit).

Parents Yuliia and Denys, both ‌40, packed up their belongings, along with their three young children, two cats and two dogs, and looked for an alternative place to sleep.

The choice fell on the family-owned Piggy Cafe Kyiv - with power supplied by a generator and heating - ‌where customers are allowed to pet seven small pigs to unwind from the stresses of war.

After the last customer leaves and the cafe shuts for the day, Yuliia and Denys roll out the mattresses and make up a bed on the floor for sons Maksym, 11, and Tymofiy, six, and two-year-old daughter Stephanie.

"The point when we decide to leave Kyiv again would be when Russian troops are 10-12 km from the city. That's it," Yuliia told Reuters reporters who spent three days with the family to document how they coped with extreme cold amid the air raids.

The Davydenkos had left the country early on in ⁠the invasion when Russian forces closed on the capital in 2022. ‌Since returning from Europe, they are resolute in their intention to stay.

Such defiance is common across Kyiv and Ukraine, where many residents say they will never leave their land, a sentiment fuelling President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's push against maximalist Russian demands in ongoing peace talks.

Now, in the evening, the cats, dogs and ‍pigs roam around the coffee shop until settling down into their own beds for the night - and even sometimes snuggle up with the family.

BRAVING FREEZING TEMPERATURES

But there is little escape from the bitter cold, which seeps into everything.

In the apartment in the Troieshchyna district in Kyiv's northeast, which the family returns to every few days, laundry takes days to dry, and even then it feels damp. It's often too cold to sit on a ​toilet. A shower is out of the question.

On a recent visit, the temperature in the kitchen was 2 C (35.6 F) and ice was forming on the inside of the window. Condensation came ‌from their mouths as the couple spoke.

As a treat, the Davydenkos visited a sauna, to the delight of the children for whom the upheaval still has the excitement of an adventure.

"Maksym likes it," Denys joked about their new reality. "He actually says that at home we have to do household chores. Now there's no dish-washing, cleaning, walking the dogs. So he is happy about that."

Back at home, the family can't cook proper meals. In the coffee shop, it's marshmallows in cocoa and takeaways for sustenance.

With their own business and access to full-day education for their sons, the Davydenkos are better off than many in Kyiv.

Waves of Russian attacks over the past four months left hundreds of thousands without electricity and water, making this the most devastating winter since the war started for the city's ⁠three million people.

Some are leaving, some are forced to brave near-freezing temperatures at home while others are relying ​on friends or the shelter of giant heated tents set up around the city.

Russia denies targeting civilians and says its ​missile and drone attacks are aimed at degrading Ukraine's military. Yet the raids have inflicted mass civilian casualties.

BIGGER BOMBARDMENT? 'NO BIG DEAL'

Russian strikes on Ukraine's power grid are nothing new. But this winter the scale is greater and temperatures are lower.

After a particularly heavy attack on January 20, 5,635 apartment blocks – or almost half ‍of the total number in Kyiv - lost heating, infrastructure ⁠ministry data shows. At one point about one million customers were disconnected from the grid simultaneously, according to an industry source.

The Davydenkos' property is located just 4 km away from a major thermal power plant, which has been a primary target for Russian attacks since the autumn of 2025.

Despite intensifying bombardments, the Davydenkos hope for better while preparing for worse.

"No ⁠big deal," said Yuliia when asked for their plan. "We will set up a wood stove."

On the morning of Reuters' last day with the family, Russia fired 71 missiles and 450 drones at Ukraine in one of the biggest single ‌barrages of the war. Much of that firepower was concentrated on Kyiv's energy system again.

Yuliia and Denys said they woke up to the sound of explosions and ‌rattling windows. The heating was gone in the cafe as well.

(Editing by Mike Collett-White and Pravin Char)

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility overnight for adeadly suicide bombinginside a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital that killed 31 people and wounded 169 others, as mourners gathered Saturday under tight security at the same mosque for funerals for the victims.

Pakistan Shiite Mosque Blast

The regionalIslamic State affiliate, known as Islamic State in Pakistan, claimed responsibility in a statement posted on its Amaq News Agency. It said the attacker arrived opened fire on security guards who tried to stop him at the main gate and detonated his explosive vest after reaching the mosque's inner gate.

The Islamic State group suggested it viewed the Pakistani Shiites as legitimate targets, calling them a "human reservoir" that provided recruits to Shiite militias fighting the Islamic State in Syria.

Friday's mosque bombing was the deadliest in Islamabad since a 2008 suicide bombing at the Marriott Hotel that killed 63 people and wounded more than 250. In November, a suicide bomber struck outside a court in the capital, killing 12 people.

The latest attack comes as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government has had to deal with a surge in militant attacks across Pakistan. According to Pakistani authorities, the attacker was a Pakistani national who had recently traveled to Afghanistan.

Authorities said several suspects, including the brother, mother and other relatives of the bomber, were arrested during overnight raids in Islamabad and in northwestern Pakistan, and that a police officer was killed in the operation.

More than 2,000 grief-stricken mourners gathered as coffins of those killed were brought to the mosque for funerals. Senior government officials and leaders of the Shiite community were among those who attended the funerals for about a dozen victims. Funerals of other victims were to be held in their home towns.

IS is a Sunni group that has targeted Pakistan's Shiite minority in the past, apparently seeking to stoke sectarian divisions in the majority Sunni country. In 2022 it claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that struck aShiite Muslim mosquein Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least 56 and wounding 194.

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Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asiftold reporters Friday that the attack signaled that Pakistan-based militants operating from Afghanistan could strike even in the capital.

His remarks drew a sharp response from Afghanistan's Taliban government.

In a statement, Afghanistan's Defense Ministry condemned the mosque attack in Islamabad but said the Pakistani defense minister had "irresponsibly" linked it to Afghanistan. Pakistan has frequently accused Afghanistan, where the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, of harboring militants, including members of the Pakistani Taliban. Kabul denies the accusations.

The attack also drew condemnation from the international community, including the United States, Russia and the European Union.

Prime Minister Sharif said he was grateful for the messages of sympathy and support received "from across the globe" following what he called a "heart-wrenching suicide attack in Islamabad." He said international support remained critical to Pakistan's counterterrorism efforts and vowed the perpetrators would be brought to justice.

Although Pakistan's capital has seen relatively few attacks compared with other regions, the country has experienced a recent rise in militant violence. Much of it has been blamed onBalochseparatistsand thePakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which is a separate group but allied with Afghanistan's Taliban.

Associated Press writers Samy Magdy in Cairo, Riaz Khan and Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Ishtiaq Mahsud in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, contributed to this story.