Jack Hughes‘ overtime goal Sunday sealed the gold medal victory for the US men’s hockey team and closed out competition at the 25th Winter Olympics. But international competition in winter sports is far from over, with many more events to come. Sports Media Watch takes a look at how to follow your favorite Olympians outside of the Olympics.
Figure skating
Although Olympic competition attracts the most media attention, the 2025-26 figure skating season still has another major competition left, with next month’s annual World Championships taking place in Prague. Barring any withdrawals, most of the United States Olympic team will return, including women’s singles gold medalist Alysa Liu and veteran ice dance duo Madison Chock and Evan Bates. We’ll even get to see Ilia Malinin, winner of the last two World Championships, attempt to avenge his shocking Olympic loss. Japanese pair Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara and Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are among the other Milan medalists expected to compete.
Peacock will stream all competition live with select windows airing on NBC and cable March 24-29.
Ice hockey
While best-on-best international ice hockey is hard to come by, the stars of the US men’s team will return to the ice this week when the NHL season resumes on Wednesday. TNT and HBO Max will carry a national doubleheader, featuring Jake Guentzel, who scored for the US in the game against Denmark, playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning against the Toronto Maple Leafs at 7:30 PM ET, followed by Jack Eichel and the Vegas Golden Knights visiting the Los Angeles Kings at 10 PM ET.
Olympic hero Jack Hughes and his New Jersey Devils are next on national television March 3 against Matthew Thachuk at the Florida Panthers on TNT. The NHL regular season continues on TNT, ABC, and ESPN until the Stanley Cup Playoffs begin in mid-April.
It’s likely that Team USA’s next international competition will be the 2028 World Cup of Hockey, held over the league’s All-Star break in February.
On the women’s side, the PWHL season resumes on Thursday, with all games available on YouTube. Team USA captain Hillary Knight and the Seattle Torrent host Toronto on Saturday night. The US women’s national team will return to action for the annual IIHF Women’s World Championship, in which the US and Canada have met in the final in 23 of 24 editions. This year’s tournament is held in Denmark in November, with coverage usually available on NHL Network.
Curling
Fans of curling won’t have to wait long for more action — the US Curling Championships begin Monday, February 23 in Charotte, NC, headlined by John Shuster and the 2018 Olympic gold medal team. While this year’s Olympic teams won’t compete, sixteen elite men’s and women’s teams will compete for the national championship. All games will stream live on YouTube. The action begins Monday at 7 PM ET, followed by five days of continuous curling leading up to the finals on Sunday afternoon.
This week’s champions will proceed to the World Curling Championships next month. The women’s event is in Calgary beginning March 14, followed by the men’s event in Utah starting March 27.
On the slopes
The World Cup season in alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, and snowboarding continues as early as this coming weekend, although the scattered nature of events can make them difficult to follow. In general, FIS events held in Austria stream live on Peacock, while events in the United States air live on Outside TV before taped airings on an NBC platform. Outside of those two countries, events can generally be found on “Ski and Snowboard Live,” a DTC subscription service created by the US Ski and Snowboard federation.
The participation of Olympic stars like Mikaela Shiffrin, Chloe Kim, Breezy Johnson, and Alex Ferreira varies by event, but check the SMW schedule page for the latest updates.
Highlighting this coming weekend is alpine skiing from Soldeu, Andorra, featuring the Women’s Downhill Friday at 5 AM ET, and the Women’s Super-G Saturday at 4:15 AM ET, both on SkiSnowboard.Live. In snowboarding, Shaun White’s “The Snow League” holds its third event of the year this Saturday in Aspen, CO. Coverage of the bracket-style men’s and women’s halfpipe competion will stream on Peacock at 11:30 AM ET on Saturday, with an encore Sunday afternoon on NBC. Korea’s Choi Ga-on, who won the Olympic halfpipe gold medal, is expected to compete.
More from Team USA
Top-level international competition resumes in Italy in two weeks’ time when the Winter Paralympics begin. All events will stream live on Peacock, with USA Network will providing daily live coverage, and NBC set for two Saturday-night shows and coverage of the sled hockey final on March 15.
