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

[heywoodu 15,135]

21 hours ago, phelps said:

it's the ancient Roman Amfitheater...

 

nowadays it's used for operas and concerts almost exclusively, but they held also a couple of World League Volleyball matches of our men's National team in the recent past...

 

still, it's too small (it can accomodate no more than about 22,000 people) to host the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games (and moreover, it's the Milano-Cortina Games...and it's been clear from the beginning that the Games opener would be in the San Siro Stadium in Milan)...

 

Bormio is cool, but the Dolomites are just on another level in terms of landscape...

 

22.000 people would be a nice change, a little less massive can be good, especially when it's in a truly unique setting other than just another big stadium. Too bad it's apparently only the Paralympic ceremony and not both.

[hckošice 14,822]

From usually well infromed sources the different national hockey federations were already informed about the Men tournament qualification format for Milano/Cortina 2026.

 

Same format will be played as the Vancouver, Sochi, PyeongChang and Beijing tournaments.

 

12 teams tournament, 8 qualified directly via IIHF ranking after next year 2023 World Championships, 1 automatical host quota for Bella Italia and 3 will advance from 4 rounds qualification Tournaments, with 9th, 10th and 11th ranked IIHF 2023 country hosting the final qualification tournaments.

 

The final IIHF world ranking will be counted the usual way:

 

 

Last 4 WChs and last Olympic Tournament will be counted,

 

• with the 2023 WCh having 100% counts, 2022 WCh 75%, WCh 2021 50% and WCh 2020 (since was not played due pandemic the 2019 will be used instead) 25% 
• and The last Olympics have 100% counting value.

 

So basically the qualifying ranking right now for Milano looks so

 

Rank	NOC	WCh 2023	WCh 2022	WOG 2022	WCh 2021	WCh 2020(19)	Total
1.				1200	1160	1120	1760
2.				1160	1060	1160	1690
3.				1040	1200	1200	1680
4.				1060	1120	1040	1615
5.				1120	1000	960	1580
6.				1100	960	1100	1580
7.				1000	1040	1000	1520
8.				940	1100	1020	1510
9.				960	1020	1060	1495
10.				1020	900	900	1440
11.				920	920	940	1385
12.				880	880	920	1330

 

 

[phelps 7,670]

no, the direct spot for Italy no...

 

please! for the good of the game, let Italy qualify on the ice, if they can...

[phelps 7,670]

the project of the new Arena that is going to host the men's Hockey games in 2026 has been revealed earlier Today...

 

https://www.milanotoday.it/sport/olimpiadi-invernali-2026/progetto-definitivo-arena-santa-giulia.html

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

Looks great, the Swiss will love that 

[intoronto 5,638]

Not sure if this was posted here:

 

[intoronto 5,638]

Congress also voted to include in the Olympic programme a women's Nordic combined, paired mogul and mixed ski cross competitions in freestyle and mixed competitions in snowboarding in parallel slalom.

 

from itg

[Monzanator 4,498]

Yeah, more mixed nonsense. Rich have to get richer after all Not gonna say what the level in women's nordic combined will be. Probably extremely low given how Geraghty-Moats was able to dominate until recently despite being a very mediocre ski jumper.

[NearPup 3,045]

27 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Congress also voted to include in the Olympic programme a women's Nordic combined, paired mogul and mixed ski cross competitions in freestyle and mixed competitions in snowboarding in parallel slalom.

 

from itg

Just to clarify, this appears to be dual moguls (as in men's and women's dual moguls, not a team event).

 

  

12 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Yeah, more mixed nonsense. Rich have to get richer after all Not gonna say what the level in women's nordic combined will be. Probably extremely low given how Geraghty-Moats was able to dominate until recently despite being a very mediocre ski jumper.

Well the level in women's ski jumping increased extremely quickly after Olympic inclusion so I assume the same will happen here, though obviously the level in men's Nordic Combined is itself very low as is.

 

 

[phelps 7,670]

34 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Yeah, more mixed nonsense. Rich have to get richer after all Not gonna say what the level in women's nordic combined will be. Probably extremely low given how Geraghty-Moats was able to dominate until recently despite being a very mediocre ski jumper.

Geraghty-Moats times are way gone...

 

nowadays it's Norway dominating from the hill and on the skis (with the Italian Sieff being the best of the rest among the good jumpers and the Slovenian Volavsek being the best of the rest among the skiing specialists...and all the Japanese team growing very quickly)...

 

early starters have no chance anymore already...

 

I'm pretty sure in 4 years time we're gonna have an interesting event, possibly even more than the men's...

 

the true scandal are those mixed team events in skicross and slalom snowboarding (and the dual moguls, which is basically a double chance for the same skiers)...