Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Sports Programme Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[De_Gambassi 1,267]

There is also Telemark skiing still trying to get into the Olympics

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

19 minutes ago, hmc16 said:

Bobsleigh: probably the same; don't think women's side has enough strength in depth for four-woman yet despite what IOC may want

They could make it a four-person event and force each sled to have 2 men and 2 women and then add men's monobob (or remove women's monobob)

 

The good news is bobsled can probably stay under the radar until Luge/Nordic Combined/Ski Jumping have an even amount of events so hopefully by then the federation would have enough time to establish four-woman.

[Orangehair43 285]

The BBC are saying Women’s Luge Doubles will be almost certainly be addded.

[rybak 3,303]

1 minute ago, Orangehair43 said:

The BBC are saying Women’s Luge Doubles will be almost certainly be addded.

What about womens nordic combined and single mixed relay in biathlon?

[De_Gambassi 1,267]

5 minutes ago, rybak said:

What about womens nordic combined and single mixed relay in biathlon?

It's a given really. IOC is trying its best to reach 'gender equity' by 2026.

[heywoodu 16,004]

At least Nordic combined would be kind of fine by 2026. Women's doubles luge would be way too early. Or, well, one Olympics too early  

[Dunadan 1,103]

Hopefully no single mixed relay in biathlon - they already have too many events. If new mixed events are to be added, it should be in skicross, skeleton, parallel snowboard, where athletes currently only get 1 chance to compete.

[LowerSaxony 205]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

At least Nordic combined would be kind of fine by 2026. Women's doubles luge would be way too early. Or, well, one Olympics too early  

In January, the first World championships for Women's Doubles were held. 14 sleds from 9 countries entered. You can absolutely argue that it's too soon for being an Olympic discipline as there are still huge differences between the best and the middle class doubles. However, with 4 years in before the Olympic debut, Women's doubles would not be the discipline with the shortest time span between first World Championships and Olympic debut - thinking of Monobob or 4x400 Mixed Relay in Athletics.

 

However, I'm pretty sure that both Women's doubles and Nordic combined (Women's singles and Mixed relay) will be added. Hope they get rid of the Luge Team Relay, never liked it (won't happen, I know).

[heywoodu 16,004]

18 hours ago, LowerSaxony said:

However, with 4 years in before the Olympic debut, Women's doubles would not be the discipline with the shortest time span between first World Championships and Olympic debut - thinking of Monobob or 4x400 Mixed Relay in Athletics.

I know, but those were also pretty early additions. At the very least, there didn't turn out to be much difference in terms of who is somewhat competitive in monobob and two-women bob, but luge doubles is much more of a specialized thing.  Give it time to grow, adding it too early can only hurt it by making it look....silly. It's doubles luge, it's already hard enough to make non-luge fans think of it in any other way than one of the most silly events in the Olympic program, so they have to tread carefully  

[dcro 10,210]

Any chance the ski ballet makes a triumphant return?

 

I'd prefer this over any of the freeski events, to be honest...