Curling is one of those events at the Winter Games 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 ib 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. 

What is curling, and what terms should you know?

The fact is that for most viewers, the Olympics are 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, a target consisting of concentric circles 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. 

Curling stones don't have a special name other than "stones," and in official play, they weigh between 38 and 44 lbs. The objective of curling is to position your stones closer than your opponents' to the center of the house. This is done by pushing stones forward toward the playing end and then sweeping the ice with a brush or broom to influence the stone's speed and direction (if a stone is touched while being swept, it's removed from play). Each team is led by a skip, who determines strategy and stone placement. 

Scores are tallied with one point for each stone located in or touching the house that is closer to the tee than any stone belonging to the opposition at the conclusion of each end.

How to watch 2026 Winter Olympics curling in the US without cable

Peacock will carry all Winter Olympics events, but coverage will be spread out across NBC, USA Network, CNBC and NBCSN on linear TV. Live TV streamers such as YouTube TV, DirecTV MySports and Hulu Plus Live TV offer cord-free ways to stream all the traditional TV channels listed.

Peacock offers two Premium plans, and after recent price increases, the ad-supported Premium plan costs $11 a month and the ad-free Premium Plus plan costs $17 a month.

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2026 Winter Olympics curling schedule week of Feb. 7 to Feb. 13

Mixed Doubles Round Robin 

Saturday, Feb. 7

• Mixed Doubles: Canada vs. Great Britain 4:05 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Switzerland vs. Sweden 4:05 am ET
• Mixed Doubles: Estonia vs. Norway 8:35 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Great Britain vs. USA 8:35 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: South Korea vs. Czechia 8:35 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Sweden vs. Italy 8:35 a.m ET
• Mixed Doubles: Canada vs. Estonia 1:05 p.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Czechia vs. Switzerland 1:05 p.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Norway vs. Italy 1:05 p.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: South Korea vs. USA 1:05 p.m. ET

Sunday, Feb. 8

• Mixed Doubles: Estonia vs. South Korea 4:05 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Norway vs. Czechia 4:05 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: USA vs. Estonia 8:30 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Canada vs. Sweden 8:35 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Great Britain vs. Switzerland 8:35 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Italy vs. Czechia 8:35 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Canada vs. South Korea 1:05 p.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Italy vs. Great Britain 1:05 p.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Sweden vs. USA 1:05 p.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Switzerland vs. Norway 1:05 p.m. ET

Monday, Feb. 9

• Mixed Doubles: Czechia vs. Estonia 4:05 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Norway vs. South Korea 4:05 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: Switzerland vs. Canada 4:05 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles: USA vs. Italy 4:05 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles Semifinal 12 p.m. ET

Tuesday, Feb. 10

• Mixed Doubles Bronze Final 8:05 a.m. ET
• Mixed Doubles Gold Final 12 p.m. ET

Men's & Women's Round Robin

Wednesday, Feb. 11

• Men's Round Robin: Canada vs. Germany 1:05 p.m. ET
• Men's Round Robin: China vs. Great Britain 1:05 p.m. ET
• Men's Round Robin: Czechia vs. USA 1:05 p.m. ET 
  
• Men's Round Robin: Sweden vs. Italy 1:05 p.m. ET

Thursday, Feb. 12

• Women's Round Robin: Canada vs. Denmark 3:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: Italy vs. Switzerland 3:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: Japan vs. Sweden 3:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: South Korea vs. USA 3:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: Great Britain vs. Sweden 8:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: Norway vs. Germany 8:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: USA vs. Switzerland 8:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: China vs. Great Britain 1:05 p.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: Denmark vs. Japan 1:05 p.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: Italy vs. South Korea 1:05 p.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: Sweden vs. USA 1:05 p.m. ET

Friday, Feb. 13

• Men's Round Robin: Canada vs. USA 3 a.m. ET
• Men's Round Robin: China vs. Norway 3:05 a.m. ET
• Men's Round Robin: Great Britain vs. Italy 3:05 a.m. ET
• Men's Round Robin: Switzerland vs. Czechia 3:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: China vs. Switzerland 8:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: Denmark vs. Sweden 8:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: Great Britain vs. South Korea 8:05 a.m. ET
• Women's Round Robin: USA vs. Canada 8:05 a.m. ET
• Men's Round Robin: Canada vs. Sweden1:05 p.m. ET
• Men's Round Robin: Czechia vs. Norway 1:05 p.m. ET
• Men's Round Robin: Germany vs. Italy 1:05 p.m. ET
• Men's Round Robin: Switzerland vs. China 1:05 p.m. ET