The 2026 Winter Olympics officially the XXV Winter Olympic Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, is an international multi-sport event currently taking place from 6 to 22 February 2026 at multiple sites across Lombardy and Northeast Italy, with competition in selected events beginning 4 February 2026.

The 2026 Games are scheduled to feature the debut of ski mountaineering as a Winter Olympic event, and are the first Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Kirsty Coventry.

The opening ceremony was held on 6 February 2026 at Stadio San Siro in Milan, titled Armonia ("Harmony")

The closing ceremony is scheduled to be held at the Verona Arena in Verona on 22 February 2026, entitled "Beauty in Action".

Along with the cultural segments, the ceremony is to feature the closing remarks and the formal handover to the French Alps as the host region of the 2030 Winter Olympics.

A total of 92 National Olympic Committees have qualified athletes.
The Russian and Belarusian NOCs remain suspended for violating the Olympic Truce because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

As with the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, athletes from Russia and Belarus may compete at the 2026 Games as independent Olympians without national identification, under the banner of "Individual Neutral Athletes" (AIN). The individual neutral athletes have to be approved by their sport's international federation, and then by an IOC panel.

For the first time, the emblem of an Olympic Games was determined via a public vote. Futura - The emblem consists of a stylized "26" written in a single stroke, representing the impact of "small gestures", and "sport, solidarity, and sustainability"

The Games' official slogan, "IT's Your Vibe", was announced on 23 February 2025; it uses "IT" as both an abbreviation for Italy (i.e. "Italy's Your Vibe") and as the contraction "It's"

Mascots - Their names were revealed to be Tina and Milo (derived from the names of the host cities), and are portrayed as sister and brother.

The choice of stoats (a small carnivorous mammal) was explained as being due to these animals' embodiment of "the contemporary Italian spirit" of curiosity, ability to change according to the seasons, and capacity of adaptation to challenging habitats. The two main mascots are additionally accompanied by six snowdrop flowers, called "The Flo".

Milo, a brown stoat, and Tina, a white stoat, are brother and sister "born in the mountains of Italy", who "decided to move to the city". Tina, the main Olympic mascot, symbolises art, music, and the transformative force of beauty. Milo, the Paralympic mascot, was born without a leg but uses his tail to help him to take a normal life with some ingenuity, willpower, and creativity

"Fino all'alba" ("Until the dawn")—composed by the youth music group La Cittadina of the San Pietro Martire in Seveso, and performed during Sanremo by Arisa

Protesters accused Olympic organisers of having double standards, arguing that if Russian athletes are barred due to their country's war crimes, then Israel should also not be allowed to parade their flag, given the Gaza genocide and apartheid in Gaza.

The Haitian Olympic team was forced to remove a depiction of Toussaint Louverture from their opening ceremony uniforms after the IOC determined that his presence on their clothing violated Olympic policies on political expression.

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from wearing a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed during the Russo–Ukrainian War, with the IOC stating that the helmet violated the Olympic Charter's guideline on demonstrations and "political, religious or racial propaganda".
As a compromise, he was instead allowed to wear a black armband. Heraskevych later changed his mind and proclaimed he would accept a disqualification rather than wear a black armband because a "medal is worthless in comparison to people's lives and, I believe, in comparison to the memory of these athletes." With no resolution by the day of the competition on 12 February, a jury of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation ruled to disqualify him from the Games.

Ukrainian short track speed skater Oleh Handei was banned from using his helmet because it had a line of poetry from Lina Kostenko. Handei maintained the Kostenko quote, "Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat", had nothing to do with politics.

Freestyle skier Kateryna Kotsar also had to remove the phrase "Be brave like Ukrainians" from her helmet.

Some athletes were reported injecting hyaluronic acid onto the crotch area to improve performance in ski jumping.