Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 News

[heywoodu 16,468]

2 hours ago, bestmen said:

How hell , Haiti trinidade KSA Enirats are in ?, from where they have snow 

Cheaterssss

People invented ways of transportation once, it's astonishing. 

[rybak 3,432]

5 hours ago, copravolley said:

The theme music was better for me in 2006 than now. The intro and music from Cortina 2026 remind me a bit of Athens 2004, but I'd have to check it this. 

 

 

This one is good too

[Book 103]

7 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Pictograms for old school maniacs like me

I knew these were based off the shapes figure skaters would carve into ice but until I did some research into figure skating history, I didn’t know that used to be a fundamental element of the sport. 

Which certainly ages me a bit young, “figure” drawing skating was only removed from the sport 1990. 

[Book 103]

And on the topic of design elements. Let me, perhaps, introduce you all to a new frontier in Olympic branding: the Venuegram! 

As far as I remember, although other games have had basic graphics of their venues this is the first time the venues are presented in the same design style as the pictograms and the rest of the design marks for the games. I hope this can be a new part of Olympic design canon because there's a lot more fun that could be add portraying venues stylistically and not just with photos and text. 

High res versions can be found at the official venue page. 

 

Edited February 1 by Book

[Grassmarket 4,314]

14 minutes ago, Book said:

I knew these were based off the shapes figure skaters would carve into ice but until I did some research into figure skating history, I didn’t know that used to be a fundamental element of the sport. 

Which certainly ages me a bit young, “figure” drawing skating was only removed from the sport 1990. 

It was, but it was a really really boring element.  Every competitor would have to go up in front of the judges and do the same routine over and over. No music. Took a couple of days.  Kind of like ice dressage.

[Monzanator 5,136]

@Book@GrassmarketYeah, compulsory figures. Denise Biellmann finishing out of medals in 1980 OG despite 1st in FS and 2nd in SP is probably the most known instance of CF negative impact.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,168]

What about nations which don't have an official broadcast? Will it be streamed on olympic channel like last time?

[Quaker2001 339]

34 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

@Book@GrassmarketYeah, compulsory figures. Denise Biellmann finishing out of medals in 1980 OG despite 1st in FS and 2nd in SP is probably the most known instance of CF negative impact.

The competitors found it boring as hell and it made for terrible television (that is if the networks even bothered to show it).  As much as it put the "figure" in figure skating, it's one of those relics of the sport and Olympic competition that no one really misses

[NearPup 4,188]

3 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

The competitors found it boring as hell and it made for terrible television (that is if the networks even bothered to show it).  As much as it put the "figure" in figure skating, it's one of those relics of the sport and Olympic competition that no one really misses

Also, calling the sport figure skating is very much an English language thing. It translates as artistic skating in most languages.

[hckošice 16,641]

29 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

What about nations which don't have an official broadcast? Will it be streamed on olympic channel like last time?

No idea, but I assume yes Olympic Channel