Winter Olympic Games Milano-Cortina 2026 News Road to Milano-Cortina 2026

[heywoodu 15,135]

4 hours ago, phelps said:

they just wasted years and built up a lot of bad press, haters and controversy (even with the IOC) before doing what should have been done from the beginning 

 

now the construction work is on, the track in Cortina will be ready even before the more optimist would think: March 2025 the mandatory safety verification, Autumn 2025 an International Training Week and a test race (basically, the same timing of Beijing 2022 and their track) and according to Armin Zoeggeler, it will be a wonderful, demanding track, where a few training runs before the official opening for the International audience would have been very, very useful...and instead all this kind of advantage the Italian sliding sports teams could have had, are gone thanks to the usual Italian way of (recent) life, wasting time behind local useless, senseless protestors and political games that never go to advantage of anybody 

So yeah, yet another big chance thrown away  

 

When will countries learn? Once you get the Winter Olympics awarded, the very first step should be finishing the sliding track (if it isn't there already)  

[copravolley 253]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

So yeah, yet another big chance thrown away  

 

When will countries learn? Once you get the Winter Olympics awarded, the very first step should be finishing the sliding track (if it isn't there already)  

The track in Cortina has a future but it needs to be used well: apply for a place in the World Cup calendar, to organize World Championships, etc. Encourage other countries to train there. Maybe open the track to tourists for recreational ride during some time: some tracks in Germany do this or La Plagne in France. Cortina has a good location: it`s a well-known resort with a large accommodation and restaurant base. Cesana was a much worse place - the venue for the 2006 Olympic Games in luge and bob sports. There was no infrastructure around there + the area had no tradition in these sports.

[heywoodu 15,135]

8 minutes ago, copravolley said:

The track in Cortina has a future but it needs to be used well: apply for a place in the World Cup calendar, to organize World Championships, etc. Encourage other countries to train there. Maybe open the track to tourists for recreational ride during some time: some tracks in Germany do this or La Plagne in France. Cortina has a good location: it`s a well-known resort with a large accommodation and restaurant base. Cesana was a much worse place - the venue for the 2006 Olympic Games in luge and bob sports. There was no infrastructure around there + the area had no tradition in these sports.

Yeah, but what I mean is: the sliding sports are by far the best sports for a home nation to vastly improve their medal chances, so make sure that track is done before anything else, because that will actually improve the medal chances..

[copravolley 253]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah, but what I mean is: the sliding sports are by far the best sports for a home nation to vastly improve their medal chances, so make sure that track is done before anything else, because that will actually improve the medal chances..

In the worst case scenario for us, the conditions will be equal for everyone - something like in Beijing 2022. If the competition were held in Igls, Austria would have a huge advantage.

[Gianlu33 4,550]

After four weekends of winter sports, we are slowly entering the middle of the winter season . And, as usual, it's time for statistics that I don't know which theared to put in 

 

 

After 29 events, 20 different NOCs was already on the podium. After several seasons, Uzbekistan is also back on the podium thanks to figure skating (and two former Russians).

 

This weekend will be all about ice sports, with a total of 13 events: 4 in figure skating (first stage in Europe) and 9 in short track (second stage in Montreal, since SLC was cancelled)

[Federer91 2,791]

8 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

After four weekends of winter sports, we are slowly entering the middle of the winter season . And, as usual, it's time for statistics that I don't know which theared to put in 

 

 

After 29 events, 20 different NOCs was already on the podium. After several seasons, Uzbekistan is also back on the podium thanks to figure skating (and two former Russians).

 

This weekend will be all about ice sports, with a total of 13 events: 4 in figure skating (first stage in Europe) and 9 in short track (second stage in Montreal, since SLC was cancelled)

Entering the middle? It doesn't feel like Winter sport season until the second week of November for me  The middle of the season comes around Wengen and Kitzbuhel.

[Josh 10,493]

23 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Entering the middle? It doesn't feel like Winter sport season until the second week of November for me  The middle of the season comes around Wengen and Kitzbuhel.

Doesn’t feel like it for me either, winter started for me back in late September/early October (first event was the Pointsbet Invitational in curling), and ends midway through June (NHL Stanley Cup Finals) 

 

For me, it’ll probably be midway throughout the winter season in late January. 
 

Edit: I lied, I also watched the Ice Hockey Olympic Qualifiers in early September. 

Edited November 2 by Josh

[heywoodu 15,135]

13 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Entering the middle? It doesn't feel like Winter sport season until the second week of November for me  The middle of the season comes around Wengen and Kitzbuhel.

It depends on what you all follow I think, for me it's more or less the same as for you  I've had one real weekend of watching winter sports (last weekend, with shorttrack and alpine skiing), the next one with multiple sports is still a few weeks away  

 

Wengen, Kitzbühel, indeed, then we're well on the way for real.

[phelps 7,670]

my wintersport season starts mid August with the Hlinka-Gretzky Cup and goes through mid June with the Stanley Cup Finals 

 

but the core of course it's only the November through March period, when all the snow & ice sports are in action at 100%, otherwise it's only about hockey

[Gianlu33 4,550]

Another week has gone by, and Canada has literally DOMINATED short track, confirming itself as the leading nation for winter victories this season after just over 40 events.

 

 

This week we will have curling (2 events, Canada and already underway) and figure skating (4, Japan)