Winter Olympic Games 2026 Bid Process

[phelps 7,685]

20 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

It all comes down to funding, hosting OG basically makes you spend money and you're actually in debt by the time it's all history. Italy have a huge national debt last time I checked so they don't really care about that, they just go with the flow

 

There was an official Zakopane bid for 2006 and then Krakow/Poprad in Slovakia for 2022 was a late withdrawal. The biggest issue in Poland is there's like one road connecting Krakow & Zakopane and the 50km drive is notoriously jammed all year long here. The entire world would get stuck in Krakow if it came to hosting the Olympics here 

 

all funding for the 2026 Games won't come from the Italian government...

 

it will come part from private investors (most of the biggest Italian companies have asked to become partner of the Organizing Committee -that's where I expect some circus...now all our politicians will try to get a place in it), part from the Regional government of Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino-South Tyrol (the 3 richest areas of the Country, which have more money than Countries like Switzerland and Austria, to name a couple)...

 

there won't be any increase of our public debt because of these Games...our debt will still increase day after day for very much different reasons (military expenses first, then many other things..but this is not the place to discuss the problems of the Italian economical politics)...

[heywoodu 15,160]

44 minutes ago, ofan said:

Also, ironically it was announced today that the San Siro will be demolished. I don't know if it this will be before or after 2026

Why are people with power and money so disgustingly stupid?

[heywoodu 15,160]

30 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

it will happen after the 2026 Games (if it's ever gonna happen)...

You have a source for that? Because weirdly Dutch media says it's in 2022/23 (or that's when the new stadium should be used).

[intoronto 5,645]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

 

that's ironic to hear from a Winter Sports powerhouse that's become that way only because in the last 20 years the Olympic schedule has been built only according the specific need and desire of the North American TV Networks with all those NON-SPORT activities like "artistic snowboard", freestyle, more and more absurd figure skating competitions and so on...

 

let's get back to basics...and you all would discover that Italy is way better than USA, Canada and all the other non-European Nations in almost all the real snow sports (alpine skiing, cross-country skiing -maybe not nowadays, but a few years ago it was a different story- biathlon, alpine disciplines snowboard, sliding sports -except for skeleton, which, guess what? it's not a "traditional" Olympic sliding sport like bobsleigh and luge)...

 

 

Which is why Italy depended on half its medals for non-traditional events in 2018?

[Gianlu33 4,579]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

So where is the speed skating going to be, Milan?

Balsenga di Pine, indoor rink.

[Monzanator 4,510]

Just now, intoronto said:

 

Which is why Italy depended on half its medals for non-traditional events in 2018?

 

That's rich coming from a country that relies heavily on short track too? I see that Canada has scored ca. half of their medals in the non-traditional events as well? Guess that doesn't bother you so why should it bother Italy?

[intoronto 5,645]

6 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

That's rich coming from a country that relies heavily on short track too? I see that Canada has scored ca. half of their medals in the non-traditional events as well? Guess that doesn't bother you so why should it bother Italy?

 

The point Im trying to make is Italy depends on "newer" events as much as Canada/USA. Italy's success isn't exclusive to "traditional events"

[Monzanator 4,510]

2 minutes ago, intoronto said:

 

The point Im trying to make is Italy depends on "newer" events as much as Canada/USA. Italy's success isn't exclusive to "traditional events"

 

Arianna Fontana is a world class talent though. She's won 8 of Italy's 15 Olympic medals in these "newer" events (incl. three relays). So they don't depend on newer events, they have one athlete who elevates the whole event. One athlete, that's all (safe to say no relay medals without Fontana IMO). They have won the most medals in cross country but it's a one-nation show these days and they have basically one legit medal hope in Pellegrino.

[heywoodu 15,160]

Today I learned Arianna Fontana apparently has eight Olympic medals  

[heywoodu 15,160]

28 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Arianna Fontana is a world class talent though. She's won 8 of Italy's 15 Olympic medals in these "newer" events (incl. three relays). So they don't depend on newer events, they have one athlete who elevates the whole event. One athlete, that's all (safe to say no relay medals without Fontana IMO). They have won the most medals in cross country but it's a one-nation show these days and they have basically one legit medal hope in Pellegrino.

De Fabbiani disagrees.