Curling at the Winter Olympics is always a fan-favorite event, but its viral popularity reached new heights thanks to a heated confrontation between Team Canada and Team Sweden at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games.

Protective gear is in short supply in Italy as tensions boil over in the curling and a Norwegian-born Brazilian makes history. Here are the quick hits from the Winter Olympics.

Day 8 of the 2026 Winter Olympics saw some moderate highs with Laurent Dubreuil winning bronze, but even lower lows as the podium eluded William Dandjinou again

A dramatic and entertaining Day 8 of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games saw seven Winter Olympics gold medals handed out. American-born Chinese athlete Eileen Gu qualified for the women's freeski big air final despite a fall in her second qualifying run.

Homan was penalized for double touching the stone in Canada’s loss to Switzerland on Saturday.

Until Friday, the American women had never beaten Canada -- a perennial favorite that has medaled in every Winter Games since curling was added to the Olympics in 1998. The U.S. men beat the Canadians for the first time in the 2018 round-robin and again in the semifinals en route to their gold medal victory in Pyeongchang.

Curling is a team sport played on a strip of ice 45 meters long and five meters wide, where two opposing teams battle to see who can slide granite stones toward a target, or house as defined by the World Curling Federation. Each house consists of four rings which help define which curling stones are closest to the center, known as the button.

A curling match between Canada and Sweden on Friday erupted with profanity-laced back-and-forth over cheating allegations.