Italy, a country with a rich history in winter sports, will host the Winter Games for the third time as Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo prepare to host the 2026 Winter Games. A total

Kim, who will be 25 come the Milan Cortina Games, can become the first snowboarder to win the same Olympic event three times, if she isn’t beaten to it by Austrian Anna Gasser (big air) and Czech Ester Ledecka (parallel giant slalom).

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Olympic curling champion Eve Muirhead believes Milan-Cortina 2026 will be a mix of the Winter Games’ past and future as it combines alpine resort settings with a wide geographic spread of existing venues to keep costs down.

The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, which open one year from today, feature the Olympic debuts of one sport and six new events within existing sports.

Also important to know, there are 3 international airports in Milan- Malpensa (MXP), Linate (LIN) and Bergamo (BGY). Malpensa Airport is the main airport in Milan and the second busiest airport in Italy. Linate is the closet airport to the city center and the second busiest airport in Milan. Bergamo Airport is the least popular airport in the city.

The complicating part of staging a Winter Games in the Italian Alps? Getting around the Italian Alps, but such hurdles might be the future.

Around 300,000 tickets have already been sold for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Andrea Varnier, the CEO of the Milano-Cortina Foundation, said on Tuesday. "We launched the ticketing program for sales to the general public on February 6,