It’s been available on Stan
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Let The Games Begin
OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES MILANO CORTINA 2026
Wednesday 4 February 09:15 PM
Join Alison Langdon & James Bracey live from Livigno for a Special Winter Olympic preview program. Let The Games Begin will feature crosses to the men’s and women’s flag bearer ceremony, feature stories, guests, interviews and the latest from inside Team Australia.
Live in Sydney and Melbourne + Perth on 9Gem. Delayed in Brisbane and Adelaide and Perth main channel.
These are example schedule descriptions of the Olympic feed on Nine
Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 - Early Morning
Hosts Sylvia Jeffreys & Dylan Allcott bring you Nine’s Olympic Winter Games coverage which may include: Curling mixed doubles prelim match. Live coverage from 5:00AM AEDT.
Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 - Night
Hosts Alison Langdon & James Bracey bring you Nine’s Olympic Winter Games coverage which may include: Curling Mixed Doubles Prelims and Ice Hockey Women’s Prelims. Live coverage from 08:00PM AEDT.
Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 - Post Midnight
Host Leila McKinnon brings you Nine’s Olympic Winter Games coverage which may include: Curling Mixed Doubles Prelims & Women’s Ice Hockey Prelims. Live coverage continues from 12:00AM AEDT.
Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 – Overnight
Hosts Leila McKinnon, Sylvia Jeffreys & Dylan Allcott brings you Nine’s Olympic Winter Games coverage which may include: Curling Mixed Doubles, Women’s Ice Hockey & Snowboard Men’s Big Air Qualifiers. Live coverage continues from 3:00AM AEDT.
Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 Opening Ceremony
The curtain rises on a new era for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The Opening Ceremony of Milano Cortina 2026 at the Milano San Siro Olympic Stadium will feature acts from artists including Mariah Carey, Laura Pausini and Andrea Bocelli, Pierfrancesco Favino and Sabrina Impacciatore.
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Interestingly they didn’t say who’s gonna host the pre-show of that.
Still amazes me how someone who does so little at the network these days can still score a high profile hosting gig. Especially since there are other people such as Nick McArdle and Eddie McGuire who would do better.
Are there not enough performers in Italy that they have to rely on someone from the US?
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But who really wants to see more of Eddie McGuire? 
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At least he has better sports credentials than Lelia
Also Danika Mason, Emma Lawrence, and many more.
Edit: Mark Vincent posted about the song on his Instagram on the weekend.
Hockey fans like me will probably get a VPN to watch CBC in Canada with the Hockey Night team doing their coverage there for CBC’s Olympics coverage. With NHL participation for the first time in 12 years, ice hockey will be a big drawcard for Milano-Cortina 2026
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All eyes will be on Milano Cortina 2026 and Northern Italy when the biggest and most geographically spread Olympic Winter Games in history begin on Australia’s home for every Aussie moment, the 9Network, on February 4.
For 16 days, the world’s elite athletes will be spread across eight hubs to compete in 116 events in 16 sports, the most in Olympic Winter Games history.
With the 9Network, 9Now and Stan Sport, Australia will have unprecedented, all-access coverage of Milano Cortina 2026 as we deliver all the chills, thrills and speed across an unrivalled platform of television, streaming, digital publishing and audio.
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They rightfully note coverage will end at 10am AEDT (why all the AEST references?) yet doesn’t do it in the advance guide.
Also, what’s with that blue 9Gem logo?
Do they really need a bio on their hosts? We’re all well aware who they are and what they’ve achieved on TV.
I’d have thought more important for all the experts, backgrounding their expertise and discussing their current or former professional winter sports careers.
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It’s a shame most of it is being called from Sydney. I wasn’t expecting all play by play to be done from there. I would’ve thought some would’ve been called from the venues.
Some is being called from the venues it seems though?
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Yep it does say that a few on them will be on the ground.
IMO while it is great in theory to have every commentator on the ground, realistically if they can’t get an on site commentary position, I doubt the network is going to fly people over if they are just going to be in the IBC calling it off a screen.
Bingo. Calling from a venue is great but so much of the Olympics has been IBC - technological upgrades mean you can forgo that now.
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Yep, and if it mean’s that money can be invested back into other aspects of the coverage, then it’s still a win for viewers.
It’s all in the cloud now.
OBS will transmit 65% of broadcast signals through cloud infrastructure for Milano Cortina, substantially higher than the 25% adoption rate the organization projected when it began developing cloud broadcast capabilities with Alibaba.
The shift allows broadcasters to receive content directly without maintaining large on-site facilities. The Milano Cortina IBC will consume 33% less power than the facility used for Beijing 2022, according to OBS planning documents.
“Even in Milano, we will have something like 6,000 broadcasters being present,” Exarchos said. “Why? Because they want to be close to their athletes. And this is very legitimate. Most of them need to do that. What we don’t want is that they are forced to be bringing people doing something that they could be doing at the other side of the world.”
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I think just the ones Todd Woodbridge is doing.
The rest are done remotely. I get why they do it but it does lose its intimacy and being across what’s happening off screen. Even NBC is doing some stuff from Connecticut but the bulk of their calls is from the venues.
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Maybe but I’d suggest more was called from the IBC over the years that we ever realised.
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