Luca Eze, who plays the bagpipes, says he started his career on the zampogna, a type of instrument common in central and southern Italy. In the Veneto region, it’s sometimes called a “piva,” and is played on Christmas and during other festivities.

If the U.S. women’s curling team wins the program’s first medal this weekend, it will be bronze. A win, to be sure, but a disappointment for Team Peterson. After edging Switzerland in the 11th end

Here are some of the most unusual Winter Olympic sports in history, from ski ballet and military patrol to dog sled racing and skijoring.

Saturday marks the final full day of competition at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. And what a day it is.

Day 14 of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics brought major wins for the United States. Alysa Liu captured gold in women’s figure skating, and Megan Keller scored the overtime goal to defeat Canada in women’s hockey.

Day 14 from Milan Cortina will see six more Winter Olympics gold medals awarded. It starts with freeski women’s ski cross and men’s aerials, before the men’s halfpipe competition concludes later. More medals will be handed out in speedskating too,

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — After a rocky two weeks of Olympic curling that included accusations of cheating and a profanity-laced rant, the Canadian men will play for the gold medal at the Milan Cortina Games.

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Controversy is swirling in curling at the Winter Olympics. The Canadian men's and women's teams, as well as the British men's team, have been accused of the same infraction: double-touching the curling stone after it is released.

It might not be the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Italy, but at the Bellerive Ice Center in southwest Houston, the stones slide like silk on glass.