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Curling is one of those events at the Winter Olympics where public interest in the sport seems to lie dormant most of the time, and then for three weeks every four years, it becomes a global sensation.
There's just something about watching a polished rock glide across furiously swept ice that draws us in. This year, Team USA is sending 10 players to compete in the men's, women's and mixed doubles curling competitions, with the men's team helmed by skip Danny Casper and the women's team led by Tabitha Peterson Lovick. (Fun fact: Lovick's younger sister Tara is also on the team.)
All 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics curling events will take place at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium. The mixed doubles curling competition began on Wednesday, Feb. 4, one of the few events to take place before the opening ceremony. And in case you haven't been watching, the American team of Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse is currently undefeated after four matches in the round-robin portion of the competition.
Once mixed doubles wraps up, the men's and women's competitions begin and will run through the last day of the Games on Sunday, Feb 22. You can watch every curling match live on Peacock, and starting Feb. 11, CNBC will air a Best of Curling recap show at 5 p.m. ET most days until the end of the Games. You can see the complete TV broadcast schedule here, including live matches and encore broadcasts.
A full schedule of curling events for this week can be found below, and we'll keep updating it each week.
Curling: Don't give it the brush-off. Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images
What is curling, and what terms should you know?
The fact is that for most viewers, the Olympics is our only opportunity to watch curling, and the rules may not be clear if you're a casual fan. Curling involves two teams, and the ice they play on is known as the sheet. Men's and women's curling consists of two teams of four, while the mixed doubles competition features two teams, each consisting of one man and one woman.
Teams take turns sliding heavy granite stones toward a round target on the ice called the house. This consists of concentric circles, and there's one at either end of the sheet. In regular curling, each team slides eight stones; in mixed doubles, they slide five per end. There are usually 10 ends, which you can think of as a round or an inning, in a curling match.
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