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With exactly one year to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games Milan Cortina 2026, Sky Sports News looks at the upcoming competition in more detail.
February 6, 2026. Games return to European mountains after 12 years, and for the first time in 20 years.
Milan Cortina won his right hand in 2019 to host the games, beating the competition from Stockholm.
Milan Cortina will be the first winter games are the basis of two cities “co -organization”. Milan will primarily maintain the events of ‘Ice -Au closed space’, while Cortina and surround the ‘Snow Sports’ clusters.
Why are the Games 2026 significant in sports and beyond?
Games return to Europe. The previous two editions of the Winter Olympic Games were hosted in South Korea and China with games in Beijing 2022, which strongly influenced the strict regulations on the Kovid.
The last games in Europe in 2014 host Russia in the city of Sochi, where only after the games concluded the scope of a widespread doping, which under the auspices of the Russian state, he was released, which eventually led to a ban on Russian ban on many international competitions.
Games 2026 are set up in the cities of Milan and Cortina
At a wider geopolitical level, three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin triumphantly closed the Olympic Games in Sochi on February 2nd, Russia attacked and annexed Crimea from Ukraine.
Climate change and the future of winter Olympic games will be on the agenda. Due to the planet that changes the climate of smaller regions, in the future, they will be able to sustain traditional winter sports.
All seven potential presidential candidates for IOC – with the elections they arrived in March – raised this question within their manifestations.
Sebastian Coe and Johan Eliasch candidates are to become the next president MOO -A
Johan Eliasch, the current president of the administrative body of ski and slowboarding – and also one of the candidates – said winter games should be assigned to the rotary system and that there are probably no more than 10 areas in the world, will not be able to host more than 10 areas in the world Games.
Seb Coe, another candidate who will become president of the MOO, added that the Winter Olympics could see new events such as running in running and some traditionally summer Olympic sports playing indoors to go to winter games.
And speaking of Coe and Eliasch, by the time the Olympic Games Olympic Games in Milan-Cortin in 2026, Moc will have a new president after 12-year term Thomas Bach’s mandate. The new president, depending on who was elected, may bring significant changes within the Olympic Movement.
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Presidential candidate Lord Sebastian Coe explains why he would entertain the offer of Saudi Arabia to set up games in the future and how the sport can act as a “Cataliser for Change”
Concern about the willingness of trace for sliding sports
With one year, one of the key facilities of any winter Olympic Games – a sliding path used for Bobsleigh, Skeleton and Luge – has not been completed.
The IOC and local organizers are so concerned that the reserve track is on standby. The problem is that the spare path is not in Italy. It’s not in Europe either. The Lake Placid in the United States is spare if the 1650m trail in Dolomites cannot be completed. Currently, 190 is a shift of seven days a week. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has become involved because it is National Pride – Italy wants to be 100 percent Italian these Olympic Games.
Construction works are taking place in Cortina Sliding Center, a place for the Bob, Luge and Skeleton disciplines on the games
The possibility of moving sliding events to the second track in Italy is no longer an option – a 2006 song used for the Olympic Games with Turin, when Italy last hosted the demolition of winter games after it remained unused after these games.
Snow, or lack of that is also a problem. Snow rainfall in European mountains has quickly decreased in the last 40 years, and 90 percent of Italian ski resorts have relied on artificial snow makers to increase their runways and run.
Although artificial snowman producers used the Olympic Games earlier, they use large amounts of water and require a significant amount of energy to power the machines.
Will the GB team refuse from 2022. ‘Disappointments’?
Not known as the Winter Olympic Game, Team GB has increased its game in the last few decades, but the last games – in Beijing 2022 – where they won only two medals are described as “disappointment” in the UK Sport.
In 2014 and 2018, Team GB won five medals at all matches, which aligned a record trip for any British team that stretched over 100 years.
For Milan Cortina, the hope are high again because several medal candidates perform at the world class in their events. The Team GB will hope that the delay and problems with sliding trails will be resolved because it could be a source of medals. The four-member Bobsleigh led by Brad Hall was regularly on a podium this season, including the victory of gold at the World Cup event in Germany last month, where they became the first non-German crew to win the event since 2012.
Team GB’s four-member Bobsleigh team could fight for a medal
Both the female and male skeletal teams are strong again. Tim GB regularly won medals from Shelly Rudman’s 2006 thanks to women’s detachments, including Golds for Amy Williams 2010, and Lizzy Yarnold won gold in 2014 and 2018.
Freya Tarbit and Amelia Coltman have been medical this season at world events, while at the male event, Matt Weston claimed gold in January.
The freestyle Kirsty Muir skier is among the best in the world. Twenty -year -old in 2023 won X Games Silver and Bronze. She is currently out of an action that is recovering from an ACL injury, and her goal is to be ready and will be ready for a medal for 12 months.
Somewhere else, 17-year-old Snowboarder Mia Brookes was on the World Cup stands, while 20 years her older “The Rocket” Dave Ryding is still mixing it with the world’s best skiers. Ryding, one of the sports great characters, would compete in his fifth games if he qualified for Milan 2026.
British Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson are called the new ‘Torvill and Dean’
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson sliders are also true medal candidates given their recent success at the World and European Championships. They just returned from Estonia with bronze from this year’s European Championship, making it bronze, silver and silver to their last three championships.
Now they are starting to beat their rivals for the main medals, and they have a mark of the new ‘Torvill & Dean’. Convinced and fearless, they accept a comparison even though they expect less ‘bolero’ and more Octane ‘Beyonce’ from their routines.
