Winter Olympics Schedule Sets the Day’s Rhythm as Team USA Coverage Expands in Italy

USA TODAY Sports has deployed more than a dozen journalists across Italy, embedding itself deep inside the Winter Games to follow Team USA closely and document each medal moment, quiet buildup and final finish as it unfolds. That on-the-ground presence frames a crowded Feb. 9 calendar, one that stretches from the earliest hours of the morning through late-night replays, reflecting the scale and sprawl of an Olympic day.

The Winter Olympics schedule for Sunday moves quickly, starting shortly after midnight with replay coverage of biathlon’s mixed relay and figure skating’s team free programs on USA Network. For viewers tracking results overnight, Olympic Late Night continues its familiar role, looping in snowboarding and other highlights across NBC and Peacock.

Live competition begins before sunrise. Men’s alpine skiing in the team combined downhill opens the live slate at 4:30 a.m., followed closely by women’s freestyle skiing in the slopestyle final, a medal event airing live on both USA Network and Peacock. By mid-morning, alpine skiing resumes with the men’s team combined slalom, keeping technical events in focus as the day builds.

Late morning brings speed and precision sports to the forefront. Women’s luge runs one and two go live just before noon, with the women’s 1000-meter speed skating medal event following at 11:30 a.m. The same race later airs on NBC, part of a broader strategy to balance live coverage with replay access across platforms.

Figure skating and snowboarding anchor the early afternoon. Rhythm dance programs air live on USA Network and NBC, while the women’s big air final reaches a broader audience on NBC and Peacock. At the same time, women’s ice hockey features prominently, with the United States facing Switzerland live in preliminary play.

The evening leans heavily into replays, allowing viewers to catch up on events missed earlier in the day. Curling mixed doubles semifinals appear multiple times across CNBC and USA Network, while ski jumping’s men’s normal hill medal event re-airs late. NBC’s PrimeTime in Milan pulls together figure skating, freestyle skiing and alpine skiing into a single nightly window.

Streaming coverage on Peacock fills in the gaps. Early-morning curling matches run simultaneously, followed by live women’s ice hockey, ski jumping’s men’s normal hill medal event and mixed doubles semifinals. Gold Zone: Day 3 offers a digital-only live stream designed to follow medal moments as they happen.

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Together, the Feb. 9 schedule reflects how the Games now unfold across screens and time zones, with live competition, replays and streaming woven into a single, continuous Olympic day.