Overview
- ARD and ZDF hold Germany’s free-to-air rights, airing about 220 hours on TV with additional live streams that can show up to seven disciplines at once.
- ARD carries the opening ceremony on 6 February, ZDF shows the closing ceremony in Verona, with extra coverage via ARD’s Olympiaradio and a daily podcast.
- Eurosport 1 broadcasts selected events on free TV, all competitions stream on Discovery+ or HBO Max, and ARD/ZDF feeds are also accessible on Joyn and Amazon Prime.
- All competition venues are in Italy and widely dispersed, including the new 16,000-seat PalaItalia Santa Giulia for men’s ice hockey, temporary sites in Rho, and a newly built sliding track in Cortina that has drawn scrutiny.
- German medal hopes span biathlon, alpine, ski jumping, bobsleigh, luge, nordic combined, figure skating and speed skating, with names such as Franziska Preuß, Emma Aicher, Philipp Raimund, Francesco Friedrich, Laura Nolte, Julia Taubitz, Max Langenhan and Vinzenz Geiger highlighted.