The 2026 Winter Paralympics open March 6 at the Verona Arena. Nine days of competition follow, with Team USA competing across all six sports on the schedule, from the ice rink in Milan to the mountain venues at Cortina d'Ampezzo and Livigno. Peacock has 270 hours of coverage lined up, and knowing which sport to turn to first makes all the difference.

The Platform

Peacock is your primary home for the Games. The complete streaming guide covers access options, pricing, and what NBC carries on linear TV. The short version: Peacock is where the full catalog lives, including live streams and replays.

One detail that helps: Peacock organizes Paralympic coverage by sport, not chronologically. If you search "para ice hockey" or "para biathlon" in the app, you'll land in a sport hub with the full schedule and event replays.

The day-by-day schedule has the full competition calendar.

Para Ice Hockey: Reliable Team USA Viewing, Every Day

If you want a sure bet for Team USA intensity, start with para ice hockey. The U.S. program has won gold at every Paralympics since Torino 2006, five straight titles going into Milan. Competition runs from March 7 through the medal rounds, and Team USA plays at least once a day when their brackets are active.

Para ice hockey uses the same rules as able-bodied ice hockey, with athletes in sleds instead of skates. The sleds generate real speed, and because the rules are the same as the able-bodied game, new viewers are up to speed quickly. Five consecutive golds means this program carries genuine authority into every match, and that shows in how Team USA plays from the opening period.

The Peacock sport hub will carry the full schedule as competition begins. For background on the program and the roster, this article covers how Team USA built five consecutive golds and who is carrying that into Milan.

Para Snowboard: Three Athletes to Know

Para snowboard runs three disciplines at Livigno and San Pellegrino Terme: Banked Slalom, Snowboard Cross, and Giant Slalom. Team USA has three athletes worth knowing before competition starts.

Brenna Huckaby has won three Paralympic golds across her career, entering Milan as the face of U.S. Para snowboard with no Games she hasn't medaled at. She is chasing a fourth gold.

Kate Delson is 20 years old, ranked second in the world, and arriving at her first Paralympics as a genuine medal contender after winning World Championship silver in 2025.

Noah Elliott is a two-time Paralympian and three-time World Champion entering Milan as the top-ranked LL1 male snowboarder in the world. He raced Beijing in 2022 with a femur bone fragment visible through his skin and finished fourth. He has been open about calling these his redemption games.

For more on how the sport is structured, the para snowboard guide covers the events, categories, and competition format.

Para Biathlon and Cross-Country: Oksana Masters and Kendall Gretsch

Para biathlon combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting: athletes race a course, stop at a range, fire at targets, and take penalty laps for each miss. The scoring dynamics are unlike anything in the other five sports. Oksana Masters and Kendall Gretsch both compete in biathlon and cross-country skiing, so following one means you get both.

Oksana Masters is the most decorated U.S. Winter Paralympian in history. She missed the 2024–25 season recovering from a leg infection and was named to the 2026 team in February.

Kendall Gretsch is the defending Paralympic champion in para biathlon. She swept three golds at the 2025 World Championships and took a World Cup silver medal in January 2026. She arrives in Milan in the form of her career.

Nordic events run at Cortina d'Ampezzo across multiple days throughout the competition window. Both athletes compete more than once. The biathlon hub on Peacock keeps all of their events in one place. The biathlon guide explains how scoring works for viewers who are newer to the sport.

Para Alpine Skiing: The Largest Sport at the Games

Para alpine has more medal events than any other discipline at Milano Cortina 2026, covering downhill, super-G, slalom, giant slalom, and super combined for athletes with physical, visual, and intellectual impairments.

Team USA's primary name in para alpine is Andrew Kurka, a four-time Paralympian, former gold medalist, and licensed pilot who runs a fully accessible B&B in Alaska in the off-season. Joe Pleban is making his first Games after choosing elective amputation over joint fusion at 21.

Alpine events begin from the first days of competition at Cortina d'Ampezzo and Bormio. The downhill and super-G events are the most direct to watch, with results coming quickly and decisively. The full para alpine guide covers the classification system and what distinguishes each discipline.

Wheelchair Curling: Starts Before the Opening Ceremony

Wheelchair curling competition begins March 4, two days before the opening ceremony, and runs through March 15. The sport plays eight ends with no sweeping, and this year adds a mixed doubles event making its Paralympic debut.

Steve Emt and Laura Dwyer are the first mixed doubles pair the U.S. has ever sent to a Paralympic Games. The wheelchair curling guide explains the format and what makes the mixed doubles structure different from traditional wheelchair curling.

The pace is slower than other winter sports. If you're watching the Games with kids new to Paralympic sport, wheelchair curling is a natural starting point.

The Opening Ceremony

March 6, 1:30 PM ET, the Verona Arena. The ceremony is on Peacock. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has hosted opera for centuries, and this will be the first Paralympic opening ceremony held there. Stewart Copeland of The Police is scoring the show, and Italy invested heavily in making the venue and host cities accessible for the occasion.

The full opening ceremony guide covers performers, the torch lighting, and what the Verona Arena setup looks like.

Competition begins March 7. Brenna Huckaby's first Banked Slalom run, Oksana Masters back on snow after a full season away, Team USA ice hockey's opening game against Italy: the schedule is full from the first day and runs nine. Each sport has its own hub on Peacock.