Winter Olympics 2026

[Danoff]

Anyone watching? What's your favorite moment so far?

Mine is France's mixed biathlon team. The final (I think it was final) leg was a woman (don't know her name) who was in close contention with germany and one other team (I think it was norway). They all entered the shooting range around the same time, tired, for a standing shot, and with the gold medal on the line.

The woman from france stood there and just rattled off the most insanely clockwork timed firing set I've ever seen in the sport. Standing is a harder shot than prone, and the cadence was non-stop. Boom, click, boom, click, boom, click, boom. Nearly exactly the same timing on each shot, each one perfect. She skated her way to the team gold medal. The other two melted down. What an absolute clinic.

[Jezza819]

I don't watch the Olympics live. I'll watch highlights of some things. I'm more interested in the summer olympics than the winter games. It was a shame to hear about Lindsey Vonn crashing. I know she has said that the torn ACL didn't have anything to do with the crash but she couldn't have been 100% confident going down the hill as she would have before the injury.

I do follow Mikaela Shiffrin's career and I hope she gets gold this time. She has the most World Cup wins of any skier man or woman. She has 108 victories in her career so far.

[TheCracker]

Historically the UK doesn't have a huge presence in the Winter Olympics as we don't have the geography or climate for many of the sports, so general levels of interest are fairly low. It does however get good coverage on the Beeb, and always has done, so i've always looked forward to it coming round every four years.

I do get a bit turned off by anything which is scored by a panel of judges, and there's a fair few of those events in winter sports, so a good deal of events shown i'm not bothered by.

So far i've manged to catch the mens downhill, the men and womens parallel snowboard slalom, the womens 10km + 10km cross country, some long track speed skating and some of the luge. Britain generally does well in the curling, so thats getting a lot of coverage right now.

I'm liking the irony of Italian engineering with the medals falling apart!