Sliding events at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will be staged outside Italy following the failure to build a new track in Cortina, it was announced on Monday, Oct. 16.
Milan-Cortina chief Giovanni Malago told the International Olympic Committee Session in Mumbai his organization had been effectively ordered by the Italian government to move the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton competitions to a new site following an estimated doubling of costs for the Cortina track to 80 million euros .
"As a result, Milano-Cortina 2026 has identified another venue outside Italy. We are already working to explore all possible solutions and analyze the alternatives together with the IOC and international federations before submitting the choice to our board for final approval." "The responsibility not to build the sliding center is not from the organizing committee but from the government itself," he told reporters.Innsbruck in Austria, one of the nearest possible alternatives, has been suggested as a venue for the 2026 sliding events but no decision has yet been made.
"So we are evaluating all possibilities because it's not just about moving competition, it's much more than that. It's the Olympic Games, so there's a lot of implications."
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