Southborough native Korey Dropkin, who trained at Broomstones Curling Club in Wayland, teamed with Cory Thiesse to earn a pair of wins at the Olympics Thursday.

There was a brief delay in the opening curling matches at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

Lights flickered during the first competition of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games on Wednesday. The curling competition eventually resumed, prompting cheers from fans.

While the opening ceremony isn't until Friday, the first event of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics takes place today. Curling kicked off the competitive action with four mixed doubles matches, while there were training runs for the alpine skiers and training in the men's luge this evening.

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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The 2026 Winter Olympics opened competition Wednesday night with the first curling matches on the schedule in Cortina only for the action to come to a brief halt because of a power outage.

Every four years, the best women's hockey players in the world take the ice to decide supremacy in the Winter Olympics. This year, Italy is hosting the games in Milan, which means the country will be the hotbed for hockey over the month of February.