Recapping from the final day of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, which included a historic gold medal victory for the U.S. men's hockey team.

The network averaged 23.5 million viewers throughout the two-plus week competition across all platforms, it announced in a press release on Feb. 23. The final numbers are still coming in but if they hold, that would make Milano Cortina the most-viewed Winter Games since 2014 in Sochi, and a 96% increase in viewership from 2022.

The 11th gold broke the record set at the last Olympics on U.S. soil — in Salt Lake City in 2002, which has long stood as a turning point for a Winter sports program that had struggled over previous decades. Team USA took home 10 gold medals at those Games.

The Milan Cortina Olympics averaged 23.5 million viewers in the United States, making them the most-watched Winter Games since 2014 with a 96% larger audience than the Beijing Games four years ago. NBCUniversal said the average includes combined audiences on NBC,

A day later than she expected, Eileen Gu tries to make it six medals in six Olympic events when she drops into the halfpipe for the women’s final. The last event at the Livigno Snow Park had

The 22-year-old Gu, American-born but competing for her mother’s homeland of China, is already the most decorated freeskier in the short history of the sport at the Olympics.

After defending her title in the women’s halfpipe at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Eileen Gu made it clear that she feels that Olympic success has nothing to do with being a man or a woman. “I’m the most decorated freeskier of all time,