TNT Sports unveils broadcast plans for Winter Olympics debut

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has revealed its broadcast plans for TNT Sports’s debut Winter Olympics. 

In a UK-based studio, Amy Williams MBE, the Vancouver 2010 skeleton gold medallist will provide expert analysis across all sliding events. Aimee Fuller, the two-time Olympian in Slopestyle, will also feature regularly throughout the Games offering expert insight on all freestyle ski and snowboard competitions, plus reaction and opinion to key stories throughout the Games. 

Vicki Chalmers, a Sochi 2014 curling bronze medallist and Olympic bobsleigh pilot Lamin Deen, will provide regular studio punditry with three-time Olympic alpine skiers Ed Drake and Charlie Guest also featuring alongside their commentary duties.

WBD presenters Orla Chennaoui and Reshmin Chowdhury will front the UK studio, including a daily live morning show and end of day wrap-ups, plus steering discussion on all key topics throughout the day.  

The presenting team on-site in Italy includes Radzi Chinyanganya, Lutalo Muhammad and Laura Robson. They will report live from various locations, including the WBD House studios in Cortina, bringing all the latest news, interviews and stories as they happen.

Eve Muirhead MBE, the Beijing 2022 curling Olympic champion, and Team GB Chef de Mission for this year’s Games, will also contribute to the coverage.

TNT Sports on discovery+ will show everything from Milano Cortina 2026 live, with over 850 hours of action from every sport, venue, and medal event. 

Coverage will be made available to discovery+ customers across all plans, who will be able to access comprehensive live coverage with 24/7 coverage available through TNT Sports 2 and a selection of live event feeds. 

TNT Sports 2 will serve as the primary Olympic destination, offering over 200 hours of live event coverage, studio programming, replays, and highlights, delivering round-the-clock storytelling from Milano Cortina across all 17 days of competition, says WBD.

Coverage will begin at 8am each morning with Buongiorno Milano, a live hour-long studio show hosted by Orla Chennaoui. A variety of experts will preview the day’s events, discuss key talking points and analyse any overnight developments.

Live competition coverage runs from 9am to 10pm, culminating with an end of day wrap-up presented by Reshmin Chowdhury, joined by guests to review all key action and talking points from the day’s events. Highlights and replays will continue throughout the night from 11pm onwards.

WBD House in Cortina will be the central hub for Team GB athletes to tell their stories of the Games and re-live their experiences. A futuristic Snow Dome in Livigno, overlooking the freestyle and snowboard competitions, will add a depth of dynamism to the broadcast. 

On-screen Gold Medal Alerts will appear on discovery+ when a medal moment is imminent, enabling viewers the choice to jump instantly to the action or continue watching their chosen event.

Key Moments, available across all platforms and devices, will enable fans to customise their viewing, enabling them to transition between the most crucial action to re-live the drama again and again at their choosing.

There’s also a new Multiview feature, available across all platforms, making it possible for viewers to watch up to four events simultaneously on one screen. 

Scott Young, EVP at WBD Sports Europe said: “We are entering a new era with TNT Sports as the new Home of the Olympics in the UK and Ireland. We have been telling the stories of these athletes for several months through our extensive coverage of the winter sport World Cup seasons, offering the perfect platform to deliver unmatched coverage of this sporting monument.

“We are delighted to make every event of the Games available to audiences on a vast scale, ensuring the Olympic adventure can be enjoyed to its fullest by as many fans as possible. Our streaming proposition on discovery+ will operate as the vehicle to deliver this iconic sporting theatre to levels never seen before. With everything captured live, driven by immersive customisable features, it is the go-to destination for the ultimate Games experience.”

Ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics, WBD is premiering two new TNT Sports Original snow sport documentaries. 

She Who Dares tells the story of five of Team GB’s pioneering female ski and snowboarding prodigies, trailblazers and leaders. The documentary features exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Team GB training camps and raw interviews that delve deep into personal sacrifice, belief and empowerment with snowboarders Charlotte Bankes and Mia Brookes, freestyle skiers Kirsty Muir, Zoe Atkin and Makayla Gerken Schofield.

GB Snowsport CEO, Vicky Gosling also features, revealing alternative perspectives in her role as boss, mother and storyteller.

Building on this, Keep Calm and Slalom focusses on Team GB ski slalom trio Dave Ryding, Laurie Taylor and Billy Major as they attempt to make it to Milano Cortina 2026 on a shoe-string budget – calculated at less than one percent of other national teams such as Italy, Switzerland and Russia. The underdog story profiles the trials and tribulations of the tightly knit team as through true ‘roll up your sleeves’ determination, they consistently punch above their weight to achieve their dreams against the giants of the sport. 

Both documentaries will premiere at the end of January on TNT Sports and discovery, acting as the perfect opportunity to whet the appetite ahead of the Games start on 6 February.

WBD’s coverage of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 begins on Wednesday 4 February ahead of the Opening Ceremony at the San Siro stadium on Friday 6 February, running until the Closing Ceremony on Sunday 22 February.

PICTURED: From left to right: Ed Drake, Lutalo Muhammad, Aimee Fuller, Amy Williams, Reshmin Chowdhury, Orla Chennaoui, Radzi Chinyanganya, Lami Deen, Charlie Guest, Laura Robson