Friday will mark the first-ever meeting between the Czechs and Swedes at the Winter Games. The last time these two met in a major international competition came during the group stage of the 2022 IIHF Women’s World Championship, which saw Czechia win 3-0 on its way to the bronze medal.

The improvement that Sweden sensed is what the players spoke mostly about after the game and something they hope carries into their final Group B preliminary game, against undefeated Slovakia (2-0-0-0) on Saturday (6:10 a.m. ET; Peacock, CNBC, ICI TOU.TV, CBC Gem, SN, RDS).

Cameras caught a testy NSFW exchange between the men’s Canadian curling team and Sweden during Friday’s matchup.

Canucks defenceman Filip Hronek's two assists helped Czechia secure their first win of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

The preliminary round is over. It’s time to play for a medal in women’s hockey at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.

The Finns defeated the Swedes in Olympic hockey for the first time since the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Yuma Kagiyama entered tonight trailing Ilia Malinin by 5.09 points — and he’s going to have a difficult time catching him. Kagiyama didn’t have his cleanest performance in the free skate, stumbling lightly after a couple jumps on a night he needed to be both aggressive and perfect.

VAL DI FIEMME, Italy (AP) — Sweden’s women are showcasing their dominance on the Olympic cross-country trails of northern Italy. With Frida Karlsson’s gold-medal performance on Thursday, the Swedes have now claimed seven of the nine medals awarded in women's races at the Milan Cortina Games.