Finland wants to win a sweepstakes of another kind at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. Finland, which is in Group B, opens its Olympic schedule against Slovakia on Wednesday (10:40 a.m. ET; USA, TSN, CBC).
Remi Lindholm, who went viral for his manhood freezing in 2022, suffered a broken backside while training in May and the ailment kept him off Finland’s Olympic team.
Finland’s national women’s hockey team canceled practice due to a stomach illness affecting at least four players, a team spokesman confirmed to The Associated Press.
Canada and Finland had to wait to start their Olympic women's hockey journeys.
The Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 have officially arrived, and for the first time in 12 years, NHL players will be in attendance. Four members of the Nashville Predators are set to compete in the Olympic Winter Games over the next two weeks,
The opening ceremony for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games is now underway. • Competition has already kicked off: Curling, figure skating, hockey and snowboarding all officially began ahead of the opening ceremony.
Finland had almost shed the pesky underdog label. After the nation spent decades as the perennial overachiever in best-on-best tournaments, the Finns’ talent pool had ripened to the point it deserved elite status among the world’s top hockey nations.
Tune in to NBC and Peacock at 2 p.m. ET to catch all the opening ceremony action and follow Yahoo’s live blog for the play-by-play and analysis.