Overview
- The IIHF said the Milano Santagiulia Arena would switch to lighter-colored boards beginning Tuesday after players raised sight-line concerns.
- Tuesday’s program features medal events in women’s snowboard slopestyle, the men’s and women’s team pursuit in speed skating, and men’s freeski big air, along with the women’s figure skating short program and men’s hockey qualification playoffs.
- A Morning Consult poll found 38% of U.S. registered voters had already watched and 22% planned to watch, as early data show about 26.5 million average daily viewers and 6.3 billion Peacock minutes.
- Visitors continue to gather at identical, Leonardo-inspired Olympic cauldrons in Milan and Cortina for synchronized light-and-music shows that run hourly after dark.
- A Forbes analysis reports a three-variable model—average temperature, population and GDP per capita—explains 52.5% of cross-country medal variation, with each additional degree Fahrenheit warmer linked to roughly 9% fewer medals.