Italy, a country with a rich history in winter sports, will host the Winter Games for the third time as Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo prepare to host the 2026 Winter Games. A total

The complicating part of staging a Winter Games in the Italian Alps? Getting around the Italian Alps, but such hurdles might be the future.

NBC announced plans for Winter Olympics coverage in 2026 that are modeled on its successful programming strategy for Paris 2024.

Kim, who will be 25 come the Milan Cortina Games, can become the first snowboarder to win the same Olympic event three times, if she isn’t beaten to it by Austrian Anna Gasser (big air) and Czech Ester Ledecka (parallel giant slalom).

The mascots for the 2026 Winter Olympics have officially been revealed! Meet Milo, short for Milano, and Tina, short for Cortina, who are stoats which are a short-tailed mammals that can be found in the Italian Alps.

Olympic curling champion Eve Muirhead believes Milan-Cortina 2026 will be a mix of the Winter Games’ past and future as it combines alpine resort settings with a wide geographic spread of existing venues to keep costs down.

Next year’s Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but it will actually be staged across a large swath of northern Italy spread over five different venue clusters.

Around 300,000 tickets have already been sold for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Andrea Varnier, the CEO of the Milano-Cortina Foundation, said on Tuesday. "We launched the ticketing program for sales to the general public on February 6,