Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: Day 5 latest with ice hockey, luge underway; figure skating later

While we get ready to settle in for another evening of Olympic curling, let us take a beat, International Olympic Committee-style, to share some very positive numbers.

Not our own, although we are very pleased with them, too, but NBC’s. According to the U.S. network, its two primetime shows on Sunday averaged 42 million viewers.

That is its best audience for a Winter Olympics since day two of Sochi 2014, and 73 per cent up on the corresponding day of Beijing 2022. It turns out American glory (and calamity) is good for ratings.

However, the IOC is perhaps even more impressed that nine million Brazilians watched ski jumping on Globo.

I cannot help thinking that some of those viewers wanted to see if you really can inject acid into your genitals and go further.